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16-letter words containing t, e, k

  • rocket-propelled — using rocket power as the chief motive force.
  • rockville centre — a city on W Long Island, in SE New York.
  • round the wrekin — the long way round
  • run the blockade — to go past or through a blockade
  • san antonio peak — a mountain in S California: highest peak in the San Gabriel Mountains, near San Bernardino. 10,080 feet (3072 meters).
  • scotch blackface — one of a Scottish breed of mountain sheep having a black face and growing long, coarse wool.
  • seaside knotweed — See under knotweed.
  • secondary market — the market that exists for an issue after large blocks of shares have been publicly distributed.
  • security blanket — a blanket or other familiar item carried especially by a young child to provide reassurance and a feeling of psychological security.
  • sedimentary rock — rock formed from compacted minerals
  • sekondi-takoradi — a seaport in SW Ghana.
  • selective strike — a partial strike against a particular area of a business or against one employer or a small number of employers in a collective bargaining situation
  • seneca snakeroot — any of various plants whose roots have been regarded as a remedy for snakebites, as the herb Aristolochia serpentaria (Virginia snakeroot) having a medicinal rhizome and rootlets, and the white-flowered Polygala senega (Seneca snakeroot) having a medicinal root.
  • shark repellents — any tactic used by a corporation to prevent a takeover by a corporate raider.
  • sheepskin jacket — a short jacket made of the skin of a sheep with the wool still attached to it
  • sheffer's stroke — a function of two sentences, equivalent to the negation of their conjunction, and written p|q (p and q are both not true) where p,q, are the arguments: p|q is false only when p,q are both true. It is possible to construct all truth functions out of this one alone
  • short ski method — a way of learning to ski, using short skis
  • shot in the dark — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
  • shrinking violet — a shy, modest, or self-effacing person.
  • sickness benefit — Sickness benefit is money that you receive regularly from the government when you are unable to work because of illness.
  • sidestream smoke — secondhand smoke.
  • silk-cotton tree — any of several spiny trees belonging to the genus Ceiba, of the bombax family, having palmately compound leaves and seeds surrounded by silk cotton, especially C. pentandra, from which kapok is obtained.
  • silky flycatcher — any of several passerine birds of the family Ptilogonatidae, of the southwestern U.S. to Panama, related to the waxwings.
  • skaneateles lake — a lake in central New York, SW of Syracuse: one of the Finger Lakes. 14 sq. mi. (35 sq. km).
  • slap on the back — to congratulate
  • slave-making ant — an ant of a species that raids the colonies of other ant species, carrying off larvae and pupae to be reared as slaves.
  • sleep like a top — a toy, often inversely conical, with a point on which it is made to spin.
  • smack in the eye — a snub or setback
  • smoke inhalation — poisoning of the lungs caused by inhaling large quantities of toxic fumes from a fire
  • snakebite remedy — hard liquor.
  • software package — bundle of files to execute computer program
  • sole stockholder — the only person who holds shares in a business
  • solid state disk — (SSD) Any kind of solid-state storage device that appears to the system as a disk drive. SSDs are more expensive that the same capacity of magnetic disk but have much shorter access time.
  • south lake tahoe — a city in E California.
  • sparking voltage — the minimum voltage required to produce a spark across a given spark gap.
  • speak for itself — be self-evident
  • speak in tongues — to engage in glossolalia
  • speaking trumpet — a trumpet-shaped instrument used to carry the voice a great distance or held to the ear by a deaf person to aid his hearing
  • speed networking — the practice of trying to form business connections and contacts through meetings at which individuals are given the opportunity to have several conversations of limited duration with strangers
  • spelling mistake — error in writing a word
  • spotted mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomberomorus queenslandicus, of northern Australian waters
  • spotted redshank — a sandpiper, Tringa erythropus, which is a large wader with red legs
  • sprinkler system — apparatus for automatically extinguishing fires in a building, consisting of a system of water pipes in or below the ceilings, with valves or sprinklers usually made to open automatically at a certain temperature.
  • square kilometer — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one kilometer on each side. 2 , sq. km. Abbreviation: km.
  • squeaky-bum time — the tense final matches in the race to a league championship, esp from the point of view of the leaders
  • stab in the back — to pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon: She stabbed a piece of chicken with her fork.
  • stalked puffball — a puffball-like mushroom of the genus Tulestoma, maturing in early winter.
  • stevedore's knot — a knot that forms a lump in a line to prevent it from passing through a hole or grommet.
  • stick in the mud — someone who avoids new activities, ideas, or attitudes; old fogy.
  • stick out a mile — to be extremely obvious
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