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12-letter words containing s, t, a, c, k, e

  • kinaesthetic — Alternative form of kinesthetic.
  • kinesiatrics — the treatment of disease by the use of gymnastics or muscle exercises
  • kinesipathic — of or relating to kinesipathy
  • kitchen salt — coarse salt that is used in cooking but not at the table
  • kitchen soap — heavy-duty soap intended for use in the kitchen
  • kitchenwares — Plural form of kitchenware.
  • leatherbacks — Plural form of leatherback.
  • leathernecks — Plural form of leatherneck.
  • mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
  • market cross — a place in a town or village where a cross was set up and a regular market was held
  • marketplaces — Plural form of marketplace.
  • 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.
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • quarterbacks — Plural form of quarterback.
  • quarterdecks — Plural form of quarterdeck.
  • quick assets — assets readily convertible into cash; liquid current assets
  • racing skate — a tubular ice skate having a long blade extending beyond the heel and toe.
  • racket press — a device consisting of a frame closed by a spring mechanism, for keeping taut the strings of a tennis racket, squash racket, etc
  • 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.
  • sand cricket — Jerusalem cricket.
  • sanity check — (programming)   1. Checking code (or anything else, e.g. a Usenet posting) for completely stupid mistakes. Implies that the check is to make sure the author was sane when it was written; e.g. if a piece of scientific software relied on a particular formula and was giving unexpected results, one might first look at the nesting of parentheses or the coding of the formula, as a "sanity check", before looking at the more complex I/O or data structure manipulation routines, much less the algorithm itself. Compare reality check. 2. A run-time test, either validating input or ensuring that the program hasn't screwed up internally (producing an inconsistent value or state).
  • saskatchewan — a province in W Canada. 251,700 sq. mi. (651,900 sq. km). Capital: Regina.
  • section mark — section (def 16).
  • shell jacket — a close-fitting, semiformal jacket, with a short back, worn in the tropics in place of a tuxedo.
  • shirt jacket — a shirtlike jacket.
  • single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
  • single-track — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
  • sitka spruce — a spruce, Picea sitchensis, of western North America, having long, silvery-white needles, grown as an ornamental.
  • 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.
  • skirt chaser — a womanizer.
  • skirt-chaser — a womanizer.
  • slash pocket — a pocket set into a garment, especially below the waistline, to which easy access is provided by an exterior, vertical or diagonal slit.
  • smart cookie — intelligent or sharp-witted person
  • snake doctor — South Midland and Southern U.S. a dragonfly.
  • sport jacket — A sport jacket is the same as a sport coat.
  • stacked heel — a shoe heel constructed from several layers of material.
  • stage pocket — one of several metal boxes placed backstage in the floor (floor pocket) or wall of a theater and containing jacks for electric cables used in lighting units.
  • stage-struck — obsessed with the desire to become an actor or actress.
  • stark effect — Physics. (often lowercase) the splitting into two or more components of the spectral lines of atoms in an electric field.
  • starter pack — a pack containing basic equipment or information
  • stated clerk — an administrative official in the Presbyterian Church and certain other Protestant churches
  • steam jacket — a casing, as on the cylinder of a steam engine, filled with live steam to keep the interior hot.
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
  • stock market — a particular market where stocks and bonds are traded; stock exchange.
  • stock saddle — Western saddle.
  • stottie cake — a flat round loaf
  • straddleback — astride, on horseback
  • straightneck — a variety of summer squash related to the crookneck but not having a recurved neck.
  • straitjacket — a garment made of strong material and designed to bind the arms, as of a violently disoriented person.
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