0%

12-letter words containing t, a, k, e, i, s

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • nikola tesla — Nikola [nik-oh-luh] /ˈnɪk oʊ lə/ (Show IPA), 1856–1943, U.S. physicist, electrical engineer, and inventor, born in Croatia.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • racing skate — a tubular ice skate having a long blade extending beyond the heel and toe.
  • ribeye steak — a large beefsteak cut from the outer, or eye, side of the ribs.
  • roman strike — a striking mechanism of c1700, giving the equivalent in tones of Roman numerals, a bell of one pitch striking once for each number I, a bell of another pitch striking once for V, twice for X.
  • sand cricket — Jerusalem cricket.
  • sanity check — (programming)   1. Checking code (or anything else, e.g. a Usenet posting) for completely stupid mistakes. Implies that the check is to make sure the author was sane when it was written; e.g. if a piece of scientific software relied on a particular formula and was giving unexpected results, one might first look at the nesting of parentheses or the coding of the formula, as a "sanity check", before looking at the more complex I/O or data structure manipulation routines, much less the algorithm itself. Compare reality check. 2. A run-time test, either validating input or ensuring that the program hasn't screwed up internally (producing an inconsistent value or state).
  • sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
  • section mark — section (def 16).
  • seraskierate — the headquarters of the seraskier, located in Constantinople; the Turkish War Office
  • sheath knife — a knife carried in a sheath.
  • shirt jacket — a shirtlike jacket.
  • single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
  • single-track — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
  • sitka spruce — a spruce, Picea sitchensis, of western North America, having long, silvery-white needles, grown as an ornamental.
  • skirt chaser — a womanizer.
  • skirt-chaser — a womanizer.
  • smart cookie — intelligent or sharp-witted person
  • snake-bitten — bitten by a snake.
  • speedskating — a form of ice skating in which contestants race against each other or the clock over various distances
  • stakhanovite — a worker in the Soviet Union who regularly surpassed production quotas and was specially honored and rewarded.
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
  • stottie cake — a flat round loaf
  • straightneck — a variety of summer squash related to the crookneck but not having a recurved neck.
  • straitjacket — a garment made of strong material and designed to bind the arms, as of a violently disoriented person.
  • strike fault — a fault that trends parallel to the strike of the strata that it offsets.
  • strike hands — to show agreement by clasping hands
  • strike plate — strike (def 67).
  • take against — If you take against someone or something, you develop a dislike for them, often for no good reason.
  • take in sail — to lower sails, as in order to reduce the area of sail set
  • take it easy — relax
  • taskmistress — a woman whose function it is to assign tasks, especially burdensome ones, to others.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?