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12-letter words containing a, s, k, i

  • packing case — a box in which goods are packed for transport or storage.
  • packing slip — A packing slip is a list of what is included in a shipment.
  • packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
  • pair skating — a form of competitive skating in which a man and a woman skate together in performing a choreographed series of jumps, lifts, and other acrobatic moves to a selection of music.
  • paki-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked physical assaults upon Pakistani immigrants or people of Pakistani descent
  • pale-skinned — having pale skin
  • parish clerk — an official designated to carry out various duties, either for a church parish or a parish council
  • parkinsonian — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, related to, or resembling Parkinson's disease.
  • parkinsonism — Parkinson's disease.
  • passion week — the week preceding Easter; Holy Week.
  • pecksniffian — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
  • persian knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the ends of yarn looped around a warp thread appear at each of the interstices between adjacent threads and produce a compact and relatively even pile effect.
  • phrasemaking — the making up or coining of memorable phrases or slogans
  • plain-spoken — candid; frank; blunt.
  • policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • prankishness — the quality or condition of being prankish
  • quackishness — The state or condition of being quackish.
  • quacksalving — resembling or characteristic of a quacksalver
  • 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.
  • reading desk — a desk for use in reading, especially by a person standing.
  • ribbon snake — either of two long-tailed garter snakes, Thamnophis proximus or T. sauritus, of eastern and central North America, having a brownish body and yellow or orange stripes.
  • ribeye steak — a large beefsteak cut from the outer, or eye, side of the ribs.
  • rijksdaalder — a cupronickel or silver coin of the Netherlands, equal to 2½ guilders.
  • risk capital — venture capital.
  • risk manager — A risk manager is a person who works in risk management.
  • risk-manager — the technique or profession of assessing, minimizing, and preventing accidental loss to a business, as through the use of insurance, safety measures, etc.
  • 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.
  • roman strike — a striking mechanism of c1700, giving the equivalent in tones of Roman numerals, a bell of one pitch striking once for each number I, a bell of another pitch striking once for V, twice for X.
  • safe-keeping — the act of keeping safe or the state of being kept safe; protection; care; custody.
  • 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.
  • salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
  • 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).
  • sankt moritz — German name of St. Moritz.
  • sat sri akal — a salutation used in India
  • sauk village — a town in NE Illinois.
  • savings bank — a bank that receives savings accounts only and pays interest to its depositors.
  • 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.
  • scrapbooking — hobby: collaging
  • scratch disk — 1.   (storage)   See scratch. 2.   (operating system)   Unallocated space on Windows 95's primary hard disk partition, used for virtual memory. Shortage of space on this partition can result in the error "scratch disk full".
  • scrimshanker — a shirker
  • sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
  • section mark — section (def 16).
  • semidarkness — partial darkness.
  • send packing — to dismiss peremptorily
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