12-letter words containing s, t, a, k, e
- chestnut oak — any of several North American oaks, as Quercus prinus, having serrate or dentate leaves resembling those of the chestnut.
- clickstreams — Plural form of clickstream.
- closed-stack — having access to the stacks limited to the staff of the library or to a limited group of library users.
- clothes rack — a framework for holding or displaying clothes in a shop
- cluster pack — a package containing a collection of related goods, sold as a single unit
- crystal lake — a town in NE Illinois.
- csk software — (company) An international software company formed by the merger of Quay Financial Software and Micrognosis, and fully owned by CSK Corporation, Japan. CSK Software is based in Frankfurt/Main (Germany) with offices in London (UK), Zurich (Switzerland), Madrid (Spain), and Singapore. Products segments are RDD: Real-time data delivery, main product is Slingshot for delivering real-time data over the Internet (real push technology). ETS: Electronic Trading Systems, price calculation and automatic trading (with connections to XONTRO and XETRA). EAI: Enterprise Application Integration, main product is XGen, a universal message converter with GUI and connections also to SWIFT. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: CSK Software AG, Opernplatz 2, D-60313 Frankfurt, Germany. Tel: +49 (69) 509 520. Fax: +49 (69) 5095 2333.
- cyberattacks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cyberattack.
- cyberstalker — (Internet) A stalker who operates online.
- cytoskeletal — of or relating to a cytoskeleton
- damask steel — Damascus steel
- deckle strap — a strap on each edge of the moving web of paper on a paper-making machine that fixes the width of the paper
- deerstalkers — Plural form of deerstalker.
- deerstalking — The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.
- disk storage — space for storing information on a disk
- don't ask me — You reply 'don't ask me' when you do not know the answer to a question, usually when you are annoyed or surprised that you have been asked.
- earthshaking — imperiling, challenging, or affecting basic beliefs, attitudes, relationships, etc.
- east suffolk — a former administrative division of Suffolk county, in E England.
- endoskeletal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to an internal skeleton, usually of bone (an endoskeleton).
- enterokinase — (enzyme) An enzyme, secreted by the upper intestinal mucosa, that catalyzes the activation of trypsinogen by converting it to trypsin.
- eskimo-aleut — (designating or of) a family of languages including Aleut and the Eskimo languages
- fast-tracker — of or relating to the fast track.
- featherbacks — Plural form of featherback.
- figure skate — a shoe skate used in figure skating, especially one having a blade shorter than that of a racing skate, usually not extending beyond the toe or heel, and with notches or sawteeth on the curved forward edge.
- figure-skate — to take part in figure skating
- fillet steak — boneless cut of beef
- frank stella — Frank (Phillip) born 1936, U.S. painter.
- frankenstein — a person who creates a monster or a destructive agency that cannot be controlled or that brings about the creator's ruin.
- frankfurters — Plural form of frankfurter.
- free skating — a freestyle competition with no required elements, in which skaters perform an original program of jumps, spins, sequences, etc., to music of their choice.
- fruit basket — a basket containing a variety of fruits sent as a gift
- frying steak — a steak that is cooked by frying
- gammon steak — a thick cut of meat made from smoked or cured bacon or ham and often served with pineapple or fried egg
- garter snake — any of numerous harmless snakes of the genus Thamnophis, common in North and Central America, ranging in size from 14 to 30 inches (36 to 76 cm) and typically having three longitudinal stripes on the back.
- get the sack — be dismissed from job
- glatt kosher — prepared for eating according to the dietary laws followed by Hasidic Jews, which differ somewhat from those followed by other observers of kashruth: glatt kosher meat.
- greenmarkets — Plural form of greenmarket.
- harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
- have kittens — to react with disapproval, anxiety, etc
- heat-seeking — A heat-seeking missile or device is one that is able to detect a source of heat.
- hit the sack — a large bag of strong, coarsely woven material, as for grain, potatoes, or coal.
- hockey skate — a tubular ice skate having a shorter blade than a racing skate and often having a reinforced shoe for protection.
- holkar state — a former state of central India, ruled by the Holkar dynasty of Maratha rulers of Indore (18th century until 1947)
- hypermarkets — Plural form of hypermarket.
- inside track — the inner, or shorter, track of a racecourse.
- it takes two — If you say it takes two or it takes two to tango, you mean that a situation or argument involves two people and they are both therefore responsible for it.
- jataka tales — a body of literature comprising accounts of previous lives of the Buddha
- katharevousa — The purist form of modern Greek used in traditional literary writing, as opposed to the form that is spoken and used in everyday writing (called demotic).
- kavir desert — Dasht-e-Kavir.
- keep tabs on — a small flap, strap, loop, or similar appendage, as on a garment, used for pulling, hanging, or decoration.