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13-letter words containing s, n, a, c, k

  • kristallnacht — a Nazi pogrom throughout Germany and Austria on the night of November 9–10, 1938, during which Jews were killed and their property destroyed.
  • laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
  • magnetic disk — Also called disk, hard disk. a rigid disk coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
  • masking piece — a flat, curtain, or other piece of scenery for concealing a part of a stage from the audience.
  • milk saucepan — a type of small saucepan often used for heating milk
  • news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
  • novocherkassk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Rostov.
  • on one's back — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • phantom stock — an employee bonus expressed as the cash value of a specified amount of company stock to be received at a future date, meant to create employee interest in raising stock prices without giving any stock away.
  • picnic basket — woven container for carrying food outdoors
  • planet-struck — affected adversely by the supposed influence of a planet.
  • prick-teasing — the behaviour of a prick-tease
  • raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
  • rankine scale — William John Macquorn [muh-kwawrn] /məˈkwɔrn/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, Scottish engineer and physicist.
  • roasting jack — a rotating spit for roasting meat on
  • rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
  • sanction mark — a mark on pieces of 19th-century French furniture signifying that the piece met the quality standards required by the Parisian guild of ebonists
  • sandwich cake — a cake that is made up of two or more layers with a jam or other filling
  • scanning disk — (in mechanical scanning) a disk with a line of holes spiraling in from its edge, rotated in front of a surface so as to expose a small segment as each hole passes before it for transmitting or reproducing a picture.
  • sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
  • season ticket — a ticket for a specified series or number of events or valid for unlimited use during a specified time, often sold at a reduced rate, for athletic events, concerts, transportation, etc.
  • shack-tapping — the making of house-by-house visits to canvass.
  • shaving stick — a piece of shaving foam moulded into a slender shape and held in a slender container for ease of application to the face when removing hair with a razor
  • shock and awe — US military: use of extreme force
  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • skepticalness — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
  • skin reaction — an irritation or inflammation of the skin due to an allergy or infection, brought about by natural means or by a skin test.
  • skip distance — the minimum distance along the earth's surface between the position of a short-wave transmitter and the region where its signal is received after one reflection from the ionosphere.
  • skunk cabbage — a low, fetid, broad-leaved North American plant, Symplocarpus foetidus, of the arum family, having a brownish-purple and green mottled spathe surrounding a stout spadix, growing in moist ground.
  • snake charmer — an entertainer who seems to charm venomous snakes, usually by music.
  • space blanket — a plastic insulating body wrapping coated on one or both sides with aluminium foil which reflects back most of the body heat lost by radiation: carried by climbers, mountaineers, etc, for use in cases of exposure or exhaustion
  • speech making — act of addressing the public formally
  • squeaky clean — If you say that someone is squeaky clean, you mean that they live a very moral life and have never done anything wrong.
  • squeaky-clean — scrupulously clean.
  • stock company — Finance. a company or corporation whose capital is divided into shares represented by stock.
  • stock raising — the breeding and raising of livestock.
  • stock warrant — A stock warrant is the right to buy stock at a particular price on a particular date directly from the issuing company.
  • stocking mask — a nylon stocking used, especially by a criminal, to disguise the face.
  • streaky bacon — Streaky bacon is bacon which has stripes of fat between stripes of meat.
  • swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
  • take occasion — to avail oneself of an opportunity (to do something)
  • take stock in — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
  • tennis racket — long-handled bat used in tennis
  • tracking shot — dolly shot.
  • undated stock — stock that has no definitive repayment commitment
  • unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
  • walking stick — a stick held in the hand and used to help support oneself while walking.
  • working class — those persons working for wages, especially in manual labor.
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