13-letter words containing s, t, r, e, k
- skateboarding — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
- skew symmetry — symmetry of top left with bottom right, and top right with bottom left
- skiing resort — a place which provides accommodation and facilities for skiing such as skiing trails, slopes, etc, esp for people who go there to take skiing holidays
- skin reaction — an irritation or inflammation of the skin due to an allergy or infection, brought about by natural means or by a skin test.
- smooth-talker — a person who gets another person to do their bidding by using a slick, gently persuasive, practised, or competent manner
- social market — an economic system in which industry and commerce are run by private enterprise within limits set by the government to ensure equality of opportunity and social and environmental responsibility
- socket wrench — a box wrench with a socket that is an extension of the shank.
- speaking part — a part in which the character speaks scripted dialogue
- sports jacket — a jacket, often of textured wool or colorful pattern, with a collar, lapels, long sleeves, and buttons in the front, cut somewhat fuller than the jacket of a business suit, worn with slacks for informal occasions.
- sportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- spotted crake — a Eurasian rail, Porzana porzana, of swamps and marshes, having a buff speckled plumage and dark brown wings
- sprocket hole — any of a series of regular perforations along the edge of photographic film for engaging the drive sprockets in a motion-picture camera or projector.
- squash racket — a light long-handled racket used in the game of squash
- station break — an interval between or during programs for identifying the station, making announcements, etc.
- steak tartare — tartar steak.
- steamer trunk — a rectangular traveling trunk low enough to slide under a bunk on a ship.
- steering lock — an anti-theft device
- sticker price — the dealer's full asking price of a new automobile as shown on a sticker attached to it and accompanied by an itemized list of the cost of its basic and optional equipment and other charges.
- sticker shock — unpleasant surprise on learning of an unexpectedly high price for an item.
- stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
- stokes' aster — a composite plant, Stokesia laevis, having lavender-blue, asterlike flowers.
- strait-jacket — a garment made of strong material and designed to bind the arms, as of a violently disoriented person.
- strange quark — a quark having electric charge −1/3 times the elementary charge and strangeness −1; it is more massive than the up and down quarks.
- streaky bacon — Streaky bacon is bacon which has stripes of fat between stripes of meat.
- street hockey — road hockey.
- street market — outdoor stalls
- street-walker — a prostitute who solicits on the streets.
- streptokinase — an enzyme used to dissolve blood clots.
- stressed skin — a composite plywood material used especially in the construction of light aircraft
- stretch marks — Stretch marks are lines or marks on someone's skin caused by the skin stretching after the person's weight has changed rapidly. Women who have had children often have stretch marks.
- strikebreaker — a person who takes part in breaking up a strike of workers, either by working or by furnishing workers.
- supermarketer — a person who owns or operates a supermarket.
- surfer's knot — a tumorlike nodule below a surfer's knee or on the upper area of the foot, caused by pressure on the skin and tissue exerted by the surfboard.
- swagger stick — a short, batonlike stick, usually leather-covered, sometimes carried by army officers, soldiers, etc.
- take by storm — be a sudden success
- take measures — act, do sth practical
- take sth hard — If you take something hard, you are very upset or depressed by it.
- task-mistress — a woman whose function it is to assign tasks, especially burdensome ones, to others.
- task-oriented — focusing on the completion of particular tasks as a measure of success
- tennis racket — long-handled bat used in tennis
- thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
- thomas decker — Thomas, 1572?–1632? English dramatist.
- thomas hooker — Joseph, 1814–79, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
- thrill-seeker — a person who enjoys taking part in extreme sports and other activities involving physical risk
- thrombokinase — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
- thunderstrike — Archaic. to strike with a thunderbolt.
- thunderstroke — a stroke of lightning accompanied by thunder.
- thunderstruck — overcome with consternation; confounded; astounded: He was thunderstruck by the news of his promotion.
- tinker's cuss — tinker's damn (def 1).
- tinker's damn — the least value or merit; nothing or anything at all: It's not worth a tinker's damn.