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16-letter words containing c, o, k, s, i

  • put a sock in it — be quiet!
  • rack one's brain — If you rack your brains, you try very hard to think of something.
  • restricted stock — unregistered stock, as that issued privately as compensation to corporate executives subject to special conditions.
  • rocket scientist — a specialist in rocketry.
  • scribbling block — scratch pad.
  • sedimentary rock — rock formed from compacted minerals
  • shakedown cruise — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
  • sick as a parrot — very disappointed
  • 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.
  • smack one's lips — If you smack your lips, you open and close your mouth noisily, especially before or after eating, to show that you are eager to eat or enjoyed eating.
  • sour-milk cheese — cottage cheese made from sour milk.
  • stick at nothing — to be prepared to do anything; be unscrupulous or ruthless
  • stick out a mile — to be extremely obvious
  • stock allocation — Stock allocation is the decisions made about how quantities held at a central point will be distributed amongst several outlets in a retail chain.
  • stock car racing — the sport of racing in stock cars
  • stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
  • stocking stuffer — a small, usually inexpensive gift that is placed with others in a Christmas stocking.
  • symbolical books — the books containing the creeds, beliefs, or doctrine of religious groups that have emerged since the Reformation
  • to stake a claim — If you stake a claim, you say that something is yours or that you have a right to it.
  • tollhouse cookie — a crisp cookie containing bits of chocolate and sometimes chopped nuts.
  • tracking station — a facility equipped with instrumentation for following the flight path of, communicating with, and collecting data from a rocket or spacecraft.
  • upside-down cake — a cake that is baked on a layer of fruit, then turned before serving so that the fruit is on top.
  • wild honeysuckle — pinxter flower.
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