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

  • nosey parker — a persistently nosy, prying person; busybody.
  • optical disk — Also, optical disc. Also called laser disk. a grooveless disk on which digital data, as text, music, or pictures, is stored as tiny pits in the surface and is read or replayed by a laser beam scanning the surface.
  • 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.
  • pack of lies — false account
  • packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
  • parkinsonian — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, related to, or resembling Parkinson's disease.
  • parkinsonism — Parkinson's disease.
  • 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.
  • passion week — the week preceding Easter; Holy Week.
  • 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)
  • plain-spoken — candid; frank; blunt.
  • policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • pork sausage — a sausage made with pork
  • port jackson — an inlet of the Pacific in SE Australia: the harbor of Sydney.
  • 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 crystal — transparent quartz, especially when colorless.
  • 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.
  • saddle block — a type of spinal anaesthesia producing sensory loss in the buttocks, inner sides of the thighs, and perineum
  • sale of work — a sale of goods and handicrafts made by the members of a club, church congregation, etc, to raise money
  • salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
  • salmon steak — a thick slice of salmon
  • saloonkeeper — a person who operates a saloon (sense 3)
  • sankt moritz — German name of St. Moritz.
  • sankt pölten — a city in NE Austria, the capital of Lower Austria state. Pop: 49 121 (2001)
  • school shark — an Australian shark resembling the tope, Notogaleus australis
  • scrapbooking — hobby: collaging
  • 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.
  • shank's pony — one's own legs, especially as a means of moving from one place to another: The only way we can get there is by shanks' mare.
  • shark patrol — a watch for sharks kept by an aircraft flying over beaches used by swimmers
  • shavano peak — a mountain in central Colorado, in the S Sawatch Range, in the Rocky Mountains. 14,229 feet (4337 meters).
  • shock tactic — Shock tactics are a way of trying to influence people's attitudes to a particular matter by shocking them.
  • shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
  • shostakovich — Dimitri Dimitrievich [dih-mee-tree di-mee-tree-uh-vich;; Russian dmyee-tryee dmyee-tryi-yi-vyich] /dɪˈmi tri dɪˈmi tri ə vɪtʃ;; Russian ˈdmyi tryi ˈdmyi tryɪ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1906–75, Russian composer.
  • silk factory — plant where silk fabric is produced
  • 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.
  • skeleton law — a framework or basic outline of law or rule
  • skeleton map — a map showing only basic details of a land, place, etc
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