12-letter words containing s, t, a, k, i
- fruit basket — a basket containing a variety of fruits sent as a gift
- frying steak — a steak that is cooked by frying
- graustarkian — of, like, or characteristic of colorful, implausible, highly melodramatic and romantic situations or circumstances
- hack to bits — to damage severely
- 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.
- 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.
- kakistocracy — government by the worst persons; a form of government in which the worst persons are in power.
- kashmir goat — one of a long-haired breed of goat raised in Tibet and the higher elevations of China, the Indian subcontinent, Afghanistan, and Turkey for its meat, milk, and cashmere wool.
- katamorphism — metamorphism at or near the earth's surface: breaks down complex minerals into simpler ones.
- kavir desert — Dasht-e-Kavir.
- keratotomies — Plural form of keratotomy.
- ketoacidosis — (pathology) A severe form of ketosis, most commonly seen in diabetics, in which so much ketone is produced that acidosis occurs.
- keyboardists — Plural form of keyboardist.
- kick against — If you kick against a situation you dislike but cannot control, you react against it in a violent, sudden, or extreme way.
- kick starter — a starter, as of a motorcycle, that operates by a downward kick on a pedal.
- kinaesthesia — kinesthesia.
- kinaesthesis — kinesthesia.
- kinaesthetic — Alternative form of kinesthetic.
- kinesiatrics — the treatment of disease by the use of gymnastics or muscle exercises
- kinesipathic — of or relating to kinesipathy
- kinetoplasts — Plural form of kinetoplast.
- kissing gate — a gate hung in a narrow enclosure having the shape of a U or a V , allowing only one person to pass at a time.
- 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.
- korea strait — a strait between Korea and Japan, connecting the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea. 120 miles (195 km) long.
- kristiansand — a seaport in S Norway.
- kristianstad — a town in S Sweden: founded in 1614 as a Danish fortress, it was finally acquired by Sweden in 1678. Pop: 75 590 (2004 est)
- lake station — a town in NW Indiana.
- linen basket — a basket or container with a lid in which you put your dirty clothes before washing them
- mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
- magnitogorsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, on the Ural River, near the boundary between Europe and Asia.
- make history — do sth of great significance
- malt whiskey — Malt whiskey or malt is whiskey that is made from malt.
- masking tape — an easily removed adhesive tape used temporarily for defining margins, protecting surfaces, etc., as when painting, and sometimes also for binding, sealing, or mending.
- minute steak — a thin slice of beefsteak that is prepared by sautéeing quickly on each side.
- mistakenness — The state or condition of being mistaken.
- multitaskers — Plural form of multitasker.
- multitasking — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
- nikola tesla — Nikola [nik-oh-luh] /ˈnɪk oʊ lə/ (Show IPA), 1856–1943, U.S. physicist, electrical engineer, and inventor, born in Croatia.
- 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.
- pair skating — a form of competitive skating in which a man and a woman skate together in performing a choreographed series of jumps, lifts, and other acrobatic moves to a selection of music.
- 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.
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- quick assets — assets readily convertible into cash; liquid current assets