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14-letter words containing s, t, i, n, k

  • gunstock stile — (in a door) a diminished stile having an oblique transition between the broader and narrower parts.
  • hanging basket — suspended woven container for plants
  • heart-stricken — deeply grieved or greatly dismayed
  • hell's kitchen — (in New York City) a section of midtown Manhattan, west of Times Square, formerly notorious for its slums and high crime rate.
  • herniated disk — an abnormal protrusion of a spinal disk between vertebrae, most often in the lumbar region of the spine, causing pain due to pressure on spinal nerves.
  • horrorstricken — Alternative spelling of horror-stricken.
  • housing market — property trade
  • in-line skates — a roller skate with typically four hard-rubber wheels in a straight line resembling the blade of an ice skate.
  • insertion mark — a symbol used to show that a missing letter or symbol should be inserted
  • john steinbeck — John (Ernst) [urnst] /ɜrnst/ (Show IPA), 1902–68, U.S. novelist: Nobel prize 1962.
  • kaiserslautern — a city in S Rhineland-Palatinate, in SW Germany.
  • karitane nurse — a nurse trained in the care of young babies and their mothers according to the principles of the Plunket Society
  • karnatak music — the classical music of South India
  • karstification — the process of turning into karst
  • kentish plover — Charadrius alexandrinus, a small wading bird belonging to the plover family, breeding in the tropics and subtropics; it is white and greyish-brown, with black legs and bill
  • keystone joist — a reinforced-concrete joist with sloping sides and the top wider than the bottom.
  • kindergartners — Plural form of kindergartner.
  • kindred spirit — likeminded person
  • king of beasts — the lion.
  • king's pattern — a spoon pattern of the 19th century having a stem decorated with threads, scrolls, and shell motifs.
  • king's proctor — a British judiciary officer who may intervene in probate, nullity, or divorce actions when collusion, suppression of evidence, or other irregularities are alleged.
  • king's weather — fine weather; weather fit for a king.
  • kings mountain — a ridge in N South Carolina: American victory over the British 1780.
  • kit inspection — inspection of soldiers' kit by a superior officer, to make sure it is all clean, working, and in a good state
  • kitchen scales — a set of scales used in cooking
  • kochel listing — the chronological number of a composition of Mozart as assigned in the catalog of the composer's works compiled in the 19th century by the Austrian musicologist Ludwig von Köchel (1800–1877) and since revised several times. Abbreviation: K.
  • konstantinovka — a city in E Ukraine, NW of Gorlovka.
  • kuznetsk basin — an industrial region in the S Russian Federation in Asia: coal fields.
  • lake trasimene — a lake in central Italy, in Umbria: the largest lake in central Italy; scene of Hannibal's victory over the Romans in 217 bc. Area: 128 sq km (49 sq miles)
  • landing strake — the next strake of planking in an open boat below the sheer strake.
  • last knockings — the final stage of a period or activity
  • laughing stock — object of others' amusement
  • laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
  • lipstick plant — any of several trailing, epiphytic vines of the genus Aeschynanthus, of the gesneria family, especially A. pulcher or A. radicans, native to southeast Asia, having tubular red or orange flowers.
  • longevity risk — Longevity risk is the potential risk attached to the increasing life expectancy of policyholders, which can result in higher than expected payouts for insurance companies.
  • make it snappy — apt to snap or bite; snappish, as a dog.
  • mass marketing — the organization of the sale of a product to a large number of people
  • mesh stockings — stockings with a netted pattern or made out of a netted material such as lace or netted nylon
  • metallokinesis — (science fiction): The psychic ability to manipulate or control metals.
  • mockumentaries — Plural form of mockumentary.
  • multi-skilling — Multi-skilling is the practice of training employees to do a number of different tasks.
  • native speaker — sb: language is their mother tongue
  • neo-kantianism — Kantianism as modified by various philosophers.
  • new kensington — a city in W Pennsylvania.
  • nizhnevartovsk — a city in W central Russia, an oil and gas center on the Ob River.
  • novoshakhtinsk — a city in the S Russian Federation in Europe, NE of the Sea of Azov.
  • options market — a market in which options are traded
  • ordinary stock — British. common stock.
  • packet sniffer — (networking, tool)   A network monitoring tool that captures data packets and decodes them using built-in knowledge of common protocols. Sniffers are used to debug and monitor networking problems.
  • panic-stricken — overcome with, characterized by, or resulting from fear, panic, or the like: panic-stricken parents looking for their child; a panic-stricken phone call.
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