12-letter words containing t, h, e, k
- on the books — registered
- on the rocks — a large mass of stone forming a hill, cliff, promontory, or the like.
- on the skids — a plank, bar, log, or the like, especially one of a pair, on which something heavy may be slid or rolled along.
- on the skite — on a drinking spree
- on the stick — alert, efficient, etc.
- parity check — a method for detecting errors in data communications or within a computer system by counting the number of ones or zeros per byte or per word, including a special check bit (parity bit) to see if the value is even or odd.
- patch pocket — a pocket formed by sewing a piece of shaped material to the outside of a garment.
- pathbreaking — pertaining to blazing a trail or path.
- petach tikva — a city in W Israel, NE of Tel Aviv.
- photokinesis — movement occurring upon exposure to light.
- poikilotherm — an organism with poikilothermic qualities
- pork butcher — a butcher who specializes in pork
- prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.
- ratchet jack — a screw jack rotated by a ratchet mechanism.
- robert hooke — Robert, 1635–1703, English philosopher, microscopist, and physicist.
- rock-shelter — a shallow cave or cavelike area, as one formed by an overhanging cliff or standing rocks, occupied by Stone Age peoples, possibly for extended periods.
- rohnert park — a city in W California.
- 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).
- saskatchewan — a province in W Canada. 251,700 sq. mi. (651,900 sq. km). Capital: Regina.
- septic shock — condition caused by blood poisoning
- share market — a highly organized market facilitating the purchase and sale of securities and operated by professional stockbrokers and market makers according to fixed rules
- sheath knife — a knife carried in a sheath.
- shelf talker — a cardboard, paper, or plastic advertisement of a product designed to be attached to a shelf on which the product is exhibited for sale.
- shell jacket — a close-fitting, semiformal jacket, with a short back, worn in the tropics in place of a tuxedo.
- shelter deck — a weather deck covering a space not considered fully watertight.
- shift worker — a person who does shiftwork
- shirt jacket — a shirtlike jacket.
- short-spoken — speaking in a short, brief, or curt manner.
- skeeter hawk — mosquito hawk.
- sketch-books — Also, sketchpad. a book or pad of drawing paper for sketches.
- skirt chaser — a womanizer.
- skirt length — the length of someone's skirt
- skirt-chaser — a womanizer.
- slash pocket — a pocket set into a garment, especially below the waistline, to which easy access is provided by an exterior, vertical or diagonal slit.
- 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
- soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
- 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.
- stacked heel — a shoe heel constructed from several layers of material.
- stakeholders — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
- 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.
- stockholders — Also called stockowner. a holder or owner of stock in a corporation.
- straightneck — a variety of summer squash related to the crookneck but not having a recurved neck.
- stretch mark — a silvery streak occurring typically on the abdomen or thighs and caused by stretching of the skin over a short period of time, as during pregnancy or rapid weight gain.
- stretchmarks — marks that remain visible on the abdomen after its distension, esp in pregnancy
- strike hands — to show agreement by clasping hands
- take a whizz — to urinate
- take an oath — pledge
- take chances — to behave in a risky manner
- take hold of — grasp, seize sth