13-letter words containing ak
- sirloin steak — cut of beef
- slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
- snake charmer — an entertainer who seems to charm venomous snakes, usually by music.
- sneak preview — a preview of a motion picture, often shown in addition to an announced film, in order to observe the reaction of the audience.
- south dakotan — a state in the N central United States: a part of the Midwest. 77,047 sq. mi. (199,550 sq. km). Capital: Pierre. Abbreviation: SD (for use with zip code), S. Dak.
- speak volumes — a collection of written or printed sheets bound together and constituting a book.
- speaking part — a part in which the character speaks scripted dialogue
- speaking tube — a tube for conveying the voice over a somewhat limited distance, as from one part of a building or ship to another.
- speaking type — a device on a medal or coin that has a punning reference to a person or thing.
- speech making — act of addressing the public formally
- spotted crake — a Eurasian rail, Porzana porzana, of swamps and marshes, having a buff speckled plumage and dark brown wings
- spring a leak — to develop a leak
- squeaky clean — If you say that someone is squeaky clean, you mean that they live a very moral life and have never done anything wrong.
- squeaky-clean — scrupulously clean.
- station break — an interval between or during programs for identifying the station, making announcements, etc.
- steak tartare — tartar steak.
- steve wozniak — (person) Co-founder of Apple Computer with Steve Jobs on 01 April 1976 and the inventor of the Apple II personal computer.
- stewing steak — Stewing steak is beef which is suitable for cooking slowly in a stew.
- streaky bacon — Streaky bacon is bacon which has stripes of fat between stripes of meat.
- strikebreaker — a person who takes part in breaking up a strike of workers, either by working or by furnishing workers.
- sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
- take a chance — act on a possibility
- take a powder — British Dialect. to rush.
- take by storm — be a sudden success
- take its toll — If you say that something takes its toll or takes a heavy toll, you mean that it has a bad effect or causes a lot of suffering.
- take leave of — to say goodbye to
- take measures — act, do sth practical
- take occasion — to avail oneself of an opportunity (to do something)
- take on board — be receptive
- take pride in — be proud
- take sth hard — If you take something hard, you are very upset or depressed by it.
- take stock in — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- take the bait — If you take the bait, you react to something that someone has said or done exactly as they intended you to do. The expression rise to the bait is also used, mainly in British English.
- take the cake — a sweet, baked, breadlike food, made with or without shortening, and usually containing flour, sugar, baking powder or soda, eggs, and liquid flavoring.
- take the fall — to be blamed, punished, or imprisoned
- take the piss — mock
- take the road — to begin a journey or tour
- take the veil — to become a nun
- take to drink — If someone takes to drink, they start to drink a lot of alcohol regularly, usually because they are depressed or worried about something.
- take to heart — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- take-home pay — the amount of salary remaining after deductions, as of taxes, have been made.
- takeaway food — food which is ordered and made in a restaurant and is then taken away to be eaten at home or elsewhere
- takeaway meal — a meal which is ordered and made in a restaurant and is then taken away to be eaten at home or elsewhere
- taranaki gate — a rough-and-ready gate in a fence made from wire and battens
- taranaki wind — natural gas from Taranaki
- the naked eye — If you say that something cannot be seen by the naked eye, you mean that it cannot be seen without the help of equipment such as a telescope or microscope.
- the-swan-lake — a ballet (1876) by Tchaikovsky.
- thousand oaks — a town in S California.
- to break even — When a company or a person running a business breaks even, they make neither a profit nor a loss.
- to break wind — If someone breaks wind, they release gas from their intestines through their anus.