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11-letter words containing s, t, a, k, e

  • heartstruck — Driven to the heart; infixed in the mind.
  • heat stroke — a disturbance of the temperature-regulating mechanisms of the body caused by overexposure to excessive heat, resulting in fever, hot and dry skin, and rapid pulse, sometimes progressing to delirium and coma.
  • heatseekers — Plural form of heatseeker.
  • high-stakes — A high-stakes game or contest is one in which the people involved can gain or lose a great deal.
  • hucksterage — the business of a huckster; peddling
  • ice-skating — If you go ice-skating, you move about on ice wearing ice-skates. This activity is also a sport.
  • katharevusa — the puristic Modern Greek literary language (distinguished from Demotic).
  • keratinised — Simple past tense and past participle of keratinise.
  • keratoconus — a degenerative condition characterized by conical protrusion of the cornea and irregular astigmatism.
  • keratolysis — the loosening or shedding of the horny layer of the epidermis.
  • keratoscope — an instrument, as Placido's disk, for determining the symmetry of the curvature of the cornea.
  • keratoscopy — an instrument, as Placido's disk, for determining the symmetry of the curvature of the cornea.
  • kettle base — a bombé base to a piece of furniture.
  • key station — a radio or television station that originates most of a network's broadcasting.
  • keyboardist — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
  • kickstarted — Simple past tense and past participle of kickstart.
  • kinesiatric — of or relating to kinesiatrics
  • kinesthesia — the sensation of movement or strain in muscles, tendons, and joints; muscle sense.
  • kinetoplast — A mass of mitochondrial DNA lying close to the nucleus in some flagellate protozoa.
  • kleene star — (text)   (Or "Kleene closure", named after Stephen Kleene) The postfix "*" operator used in regular expressions, Extended Backus-Naur Form, and similar formalisms to specify a match for zero or more occurrences of the preceding expression. For example, the regular expression "be*t" would match the string "bt", "bet", "beet", "beeeeet", and so on.
  • kleptocrats — Plural form of kleptocrat.
  • knightheads — Plural form of knighthead.
  • knotgrasses — Plural form of knotgrass.
  • kosher salt — a coarse-grained salt with no additives, used especially to draw out the blood from meat to make it kosher.
  • kostelanetz — André [ahn-drey] /ˈɑn dreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1901–80, U.S. orchestra conductor and pianist, born in Russia.
  • kristiansen — Ingrid. born 1956, Norwegian long-distance runner: world 10 000 metres record holder (1986–93)
  • lack-luster — lacking brilliance or radiance; dull: lackluster eyes.
  • lake forest — a city in NE Illinois, N of Chicago, on Lake Michigan.
  • landsknecht — a European mercenary foot soldier of the 16th century, armed with a pike or halberd.
  • like a shot — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
  • little sark — one of the Channel Islands, in the English Channel E of Guernsey, connected to Sark by a natural causeway.
  • lobsterback — redcoat.
  • make tracks — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
  • makeweights — Plural form of makeweight.
  • market test — If a company carries out a market test, it asks a group of people to try a new product or service and give their opinions on it.
  • mass market — general public
  • mass-market — (of products) produced and distributed in large quantities and intended to appeal to the widest range of consumers.
  • master disk — an original disk from which duplicates are made
  • master-work — masterpiece.
  • masterworks — Plural form of masterwork.
  • matchmakers — Plural form of matchmaker.
  • mekhitarist — a member of an order of Armenian monks founded in Constantinople in the 18th century and following the rule of St. Benedict.
  • mess jacket — a short, tailless jacket extending to just below the waist, used for semiformal military occasions and now especially as part of the uniform of waiters, bellhops, etc.
  • meter marks — special markings stamped onto privately franked mail by a machine
  • money talks — If you say that money talks, you mean that if someone has a lot of money, they also have a lot of power.
  • montelukast — a type of oral drug containing a leukotriene inhibitor, used in the treatment of asthma and seasonal allergies.
  • mountebanks — Plural form of mountebank.
  • multitasked — Simple past tense and past participle of multitask.
  • multitasker — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
  • natterjacks — Plural form of natterjack.
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