12-letter words containing a, s, k, i, c, e
- pack of lies — false account
- packing case — a box in which goods are packed for transport or storage.
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- parish clerk — an official designated to carry out various duties, either for a church parish or a parish council
- pecksniffian — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
- policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- quackishness — The state or condition of being quackish.
- quick assets — assets readily convertible into cash; liquid current assets
- racing skate — a tubular ice skate having a long blade extending beyond the heel and toe.
- rock jasmine — any of several alpine plants belonging to the genus Androsace, of the primrose family, having tufted leaves often in basal rosettes, and umbels of pink, red, purple, or white flowers.
- safecracking — the act of breaking into a safe
- salk vaccine — a vaccine that contains three types of inactivated poliomyelitis viruses and induces immunity against the disease.
- 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).
- scafell pike — a mountain in NW England, in Cumberland: highest peak in England. 3210 feet (978 meters).
- schappe silk — a yarn or fabric of or similar to spun silk.
- science park — A science park is an area, usually linked to a university, where there are a lot of private companies, especially ones concerned with high technology.
- scrimshanker — a shirker
- section mark — section (def 16).
- send packing — to dismiss peremptorily
- service mark — a proprietary term, such as Blue Cross and Blue Shield, American Express, or Planned Parenthood, that is registered with the Patent and Trademark Office. Abbreviation: SM.
- shirt jacket — a shirtlike jacket.
- sign a check — When you sign a check , you write your name on it in a special space in order to validate it.
- 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.
- sitka spruce — a spruce, Picea sitchensis, of western North America, having long, silvery-white needles, grown as an ornamental.
- skirt chaser — a womanizer.
- skirt-chaser — a womanizer.
- smart cookie — intelligent or sharp-witted person
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- stottie cake — a flat round loaf
- straightneck — a variety of summer squash related to the crookneck but not having a recurved neck.
- straitjacket — a garment made of strong material and designed to bind the arms, as of a violently disoriented person.
- trainer sock — a sock designed to be worn with a training shoe, often cut low at the ankle so that very little shows above the shoe
- warwickshire — a county in central England. 765 sq. mi. (1980 sq. km).
- west warwick — a town in E Rhode Island, near Providence.
- whiskey jack — gray jay.
- wisecracking — a smart or facetious remark.