16-letter words containing t, o, k, i, e
- 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.
- 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.
- sleep like a top — a toy, often inversely conical, with a point on which it is made to spin.
- smoke inhalation — poisoning of the lungs caused by inhaling large quantities of toxic fumes from a fire
- 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. - 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
- 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
- square kilometer — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one kilometer on each side. 2 , sq. km. Abbreviation: km.
- stick out a mile — to be extremely obvious
- stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
- stocking stuffer — a small, usually inexpensive gift that is placed with others in a Christmas stocking.
- take (to) flight — to run away; flee
- take the lid off — to make startling or spectacular revelations about
- the dojo toolkit — (library, programming) A modular, open source JavaScript library. Dojo is designed for easy development of JavaScript- or AJAX based applications and websites. It is supported by the Dojo Foundation, which is sponsored by IBM, AOL, Sun and others. The name is from the Japanese term meaning "place of the way", used for a formal place of training.
- the king country — an area in the centre of North Island, New Zealand: home of the King Movement, a nineteenth-century Māori separatist movement
- the little karoo — a high arid plateau in South Africa
- ticket collector — transport worker who checks tickets
- tightrope walker — performer who walks on high wire
- to break the ice — If you break the ice at a party or meeting, or in a new situation, you say or do something to make people feel relaxed and comfortable.
- to stake a claim — If you stake a claim, you say that something is yours or that you have a right to it.
- tokugawa iyeyasu — Tokugawa [taw-koo-gah-wah] /ˈtɔ kuˈgɑ wɑ/ (Show IPA), 1542–1616, Japanese general and public servant.
- tollhouse cookie — a crisp cookie containing bits of chocolate and sometimes chopped nuts.
- tool builder kit — (tool) (TBK) A product from IPSYS which allows users to develop CASE tools appropriate to any software engineering methodology.
- travelling clock — a small clock taken by someone who is travelling
- trick-or-treater — a person, typically a child, who goes from door to door in costume on Halloween asking for candy or other treats
- two-percent milk — Two-percent milk is milk from which some of the cream has been removed.
- walk a tightrope — be in a precarious position
- weak interaction — the interaction between elementary particles and the intermediate vector bosons that carry the weak force from one particle to another.
- week in week out — If you say that something happens week in week out, you do not like it because it happens all the time, and never seems to change.
- wide of the mark — If something such as a claim or estimate is wide of the mark, it is incorrect or inaccurate.
- winter crookneck — any of several winter varieties of squash, Cucurbita moschata, having elongated, curved necks.