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13-letter words containing c, o, k, i

  • sickle-hocked — noting or pertaining to a condition of horses in which the hock, due to strained tendons and ligaments, is flexed so that the foot is abnormally bowed far under the body.
  • silk stocking — a lady's stocking made from a very fine material such as silk or nylon
  • silk-stocking — rich or luxurious in dress.
  • skin friction — the friction acting on a solid body when it is moving through a fluid
  • skin reaction — an irritation or inflammation of the skin due to an allergy or infection, brought about by natural means or by a skin test.
  • social market — an economic system in which industry and commerce are run by private enterprise within limits set by the government to ensure equality of opportunity and social and environmental responsibility
  • social skills — ability to interact
  • social worker — sb who assists local community
  • steering lock — an anti-theft device
  • stick out for — If you stick out for something, you keep demanding it and do not accept anything different or less.
  • sticker shock — unpleasant surprise on learning of an unexpectedly high price for an item.
  • sticks&stones — (language, functional programming)   A functional, polymorphic hardware description language loosely based on ML by Lucca Cardelli.
  • stock options — an option giving the holder, usually an officer or employee, the right to buy stock of the issuing corporation at a specific price within a stated period.
  • stock raising — the breeding and raising of livestock.
  • stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
  • stocking loom — a type of knitting machine
  • stocking mask — a nylon stocking used, especially by a criminal, to disguise the face.
  • stocking unit — A stocking unit is a measurement or number by which items are kept in inventory, for example by dozens, kilograms, or cases.
  • sucking louse — See under louse (def 1).
  • symbolic link — (file format)   (SYLK) A Microsoft file format for spreadsheets, (not to be confused with symbolic link). SYLK format existed in one form or another in as early as 1987, and was part of Excel v1.0. It is is an outgrowth of VisiCalc DIF file format. SYLK format is ascii text and represents information about both formula, value, and some formatting information, which makes it something like an RTF for spreadsheets. It is used as a general tabular data exchange format.
  • tailor's-tack — one of a series of loose looped stitches used to transfer markings for seams, darts, etc, from a paper pattern to material
  • take occasion — to avail oneself of an opportunity (to do something)
  • take stock in — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
  • tarpeian rock — a rock on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, from which criminals and traitors were hurled.
  • tektosilicate — any silicate in which each tetrahedral group shares all its oxygen atoms with neighboring groups, the ratio of silicon to oxygen being 1 to 2.
  • think much of — to have a high opinion of
  • tick-tack-toe — a simple game in which one player marks down only X's and another only O's, each alternating in filling in any of the nine compartments of a figure formed by two vertical lines crossed by two horizontal lines, the winner being the first to fill in three marks in any horizontal, vertical, or diagonal row.
  • ticket holder — a person who has a valid ticket for an event or for a journey on public transport
  • ticket office — an office or booth at which tickets are sold, as for a play, a film, or travel accommodations.
  • tracking poll — a type of poll repeated periodically with the same group of people to check and measure changes of opinion or knowledge.
  • tracking shot — dolly shot.
  • understocking — to provide an insufficient quantity, as of merchandise, supplies, or livestock.
  • unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
  • upper chinook — a Chinookan language of the Columbia River valley from the Deschutes River to the estuary.
  • vacation work — work undertaken by students during their vacation
  • vercelli book — a codex of Old English poems and sermons found in the chapter house at Vercelli.
  • volcanic neck — neck (def 14).
  • volcanic rock — rock solidified on Earth's surface
  • volcanic-neck — the part of the body of an animal or human being that connects the head and the trunk.
  • white croaker — kingfish (def 2).
  • windsor locks — a town in N Connecticut.
  • wooden nickel — a useless thing; thing of no value
  • work function — Physics. the least energy necessary to free an electron from a metal surface.
  • working class — those persons working for wages, especially in manual labor.
  • works council — an elected body of employee representatives that deals with management regarding grievances, working conditions, wages, etc.
  • zooplanktonic — Of or pertaining to zooplankton.
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