12-letter words containing t, a, n, k, e
- plain turkey — a bustard
- plane ticket — entitlement to travel by aircraft
- plunket baby — a baby brought up in infancy under the dietary recommendations of the Plunket Society
- premarketing — before the development of a market
- put-and-take — any of various games of chance played with a teetotum or other special type of top, in which each player puts in an equal stake before starting to spin the top.
- racing skate — a tubular ice skate having a long blade extending beyond the heel and toe.
- racketeering — a person engaged in a racket.
- rattlesnakes — any of several New World pit vipers of the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle composed of a series of horny, interlocking elements at the end of the tail.
- reserve tank — the tank or part of a tank in a car engine that reserves fuel in case the main fuel supply runs out
- rocket plane — aircraft that launches rockets
- rocket range — a firing range for rockets
- rockumentary — a documentary about rock music.
- rohnert park — a city in W California.
- 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.
- salmon steak — a thick slice of salmon
- 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).
- sankt gallen — German name of St. Gallen.
- sankt pölten — a city in NE Austria, the capital of Lower Austria state. Pop: 49 121 (2001)
- saskatchewan — a province in W Canada. 251,700 sq. mi. (651,900 sq. km). Capital: Regina.
- section mark — section (def 16).
- sheath knife — a knife carried in a sheath.
- 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.
- skeleton car — a freight car essentially consisting of a central longitudinal girder fastened to the trucks, sometimes supplemented by one or more pairs of cross cantilevers: used for carrying logs or containers.
- skeleton law — a framework or basic outline of law or rule
- skeleton map — a map showing only basic details of a land, place, etc
- smooth snake — any of several slender nonvenomous colubrid snakes of the European genus Coronella, esp C. austriaca, having very smooth scales and a reddish-brown coloration
- snake doctor — South Midland and Southern U.S. a dragonfly.
- snake-bitten — bitten by a snake.
- sneak out of — leave secretly
- south korean — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 36,600 sq. mi. (94,795 sq. km). Capital: Seoul. Compare Korea.
- speedskating — a form of ice skating in which contestants race against each other or the clock over various distances
- splatterpunk — a form of fiction featuring extremely graphic violence.
- stakhanovite — a worker in the Soviet Union who regularly surpassed production quotas and was specially honored and rewarded.
- star network — a circuit with three or more branches all of which have one common terminal.
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- stonebreaker — a person that breaks up stone
- storage tank — A storage tank is a large vessel for storing oil, gas, and other petrochemical products.
- straightneck — a variety of summer squash related to the crookneck but not having a recurved neck.
- stratotanker — an aircraft that can refuel other aircrafts at high speeds and altitudes
- strike hands — to show agreement by clasping hands
- sultana cake — a cake that contains sultanas
- t-bone steak — a loin steak having some tenderloin, characterized by its T -shaped bone.
- tack welding — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
- take against — If you take against someone or something, you develop a dislike for them, often for no good reason.
- take an oath — pledge
- take chances — to behave in a risky manner
- take counsel — receive advice
- take in hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.