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12-letter words containing s, o, a, k, e, r

  • metalworkers — Plural form of metalworker.
  • nosey parker — a persistently nosy, prying person; busybody.
  • orange stick — a slender, rounded stick, originally of orangewood, having tapered ends and used in manicuring, especially to push back the cuticles or clean the fingernails.
  • passage work — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
  • persian knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the ends of yarn looped around a warp thread appear at each of the interstices between adjacent threads and produce a compact and relatively even pile effect.
  • petrozavodsk — a city in NW Russia, capital of the Karelian Autonomous Republic, on Lake Onega: developed around ironworks established by Peter the Great in 1703; university (1940). Pop: 265 000 (2005 est)
  • policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • pork sausage — a sausage made with pork
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
  • reform flask — an English salt-glazed stoneware flask of the early 19th century formed as an effigy of one of the figures connected with the Reform Bill of 1832.
  • ribbon snake — either of two long-tailed garter snakes, Thamnophis proximus or T. sauritus, of eastern and central North America, having a brownish body and yellow or orange stripes.
  • rock jasmine — any of several alpine plants belonging to the genus Androsace, of the primrose family, having tufted leaves often in basal rosettes, and umbels of pink, red, purple, or white flowers.
  • rocket salad — rocket2 (def 2).
  • rocket-salad — any of various plants belonging to the genus Hesperis, of the mustard family, and related genera. Compare dame's rocket.
  • roller-skate — to glide about by means of roller skates.
  • roman strike — a striking mechanism of c1700, giving the equivalent in tones of Roman numerals, a bell of one pitch striking once for each number I, a bell of another pitch striking once for V, twice for X.
  • roselle park — a borough in NE New Jersey.
  • sale of work — a sale of goods and handicrafts made by the members of a club, church congregation, etc, to raise money
  • saloonkeeper — a person who operates a saloon (sense 3)
  • sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
  • section mark — section (def 16).
  • sewage works — a place where chemicals are used to clean sewage so that it can then be allowed to go into rivers, etc or used to make manure
  • shamrock-pea — a trailing plant, Parochetus communis, of the legume family, native to Asia and east Africa, having shamrocklike leaves with a brown crescent at the base and pea-shaped, pink and blue flowers.
  • shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
  • skateboarder — person who rides skateboard
  • skeleton car — a freight car essentially consisting of a central longitudinal girder fastened to the trucks, sometimes supplemented by one or more pairs of cross cantilevers: used for carrying logs or containers.
  • smart cookie — intelligent or sharp-witted person
  • smoking area — a designated area in which smoking is permitted
  • snake doctor — South Midland and Southern U.S. a dragonfly.
  • soda cracker — a thin, crisp cracker or wafer prepared from a yeast dough that has been neutralized by baking soda.
  • solar cooker — a simple, low-cost device using focused sunshine to cook rice, boil water, etc.
  • south korean — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 36,600 sq. mi. (94,795 sq. km). Capital: Seoul. Compare Korea.
  • speakerphone — a telephone or telephone attachment equipped with both loudspeaker and microphone, thus permitting the instrument to be used without being held.
  • sport jacket — A sport jacket is the same as a sport coat.
  • stakeholders — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
  • star network — a circuit with three or more branches all of which have one common terminal.
  • stock market — a particular market where stocks and bonds are traded; stock exchange.
  • stonebreaker — a person that breaks up stone
  • storage tank — A storage tank is a large vessel for storing oil, gas, and other petrochemical products.
  • stratotanker — an aircraft that can refuel other aircrafts at high speeds and altitudes
  • torreys peak — a mountain in central Colorado, in the Front Range, in the E Rocky Mountains. 14,267 feet (4349 meters).
  • trainer sock — a sock designed to be worn with a training shoe, often cut low at the ankle so that very little shows above the shoe
  • unsailorlike — not befitting a sailor
  • weathercocks — Plural form of weathercock.
  • weavers-knot — sheet bend.
  • work surface — A work surface is a flat surface, usually in a kitchen, which is easy to clean and on which you can do things such as prepare food.
  • work-release — of or relating to a program under which prisoners may work outside of prison while serving their sentences.
  • workableness — The quality or state of being workable, or the extent to which a thing is workable.
  • world-shaker — something of sufficient importance to affect the entire world: The book is no world-shaker, but it's pleasant reading.
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