12-letter words containing d, i, k
- pocket drive — a small portable memory device that can be plugged into the USB port of many different types of computer
- pocket-sized — If you describe something as pocket-sized, you approve of it because it is small enough to fit in your pocket.
- poodle skirt — 1950s-style woman's circular skirt
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- pumpkin head — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
- pyramid peak — a mountain in W central Colorado, in the Elk Range, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,018 feet (4276 meters).
- quick-drying — (of paint, concrete, glue, etc) that dries quickly
- quick-witted — having a nimble, alert mind.
- quickstepped — Simple past tense and past participle of quickstep.
- radar picket — a ship, vehicle, or aircraft stationed at a distance from a protected force to increase radar detection range.
- reading book — a book for people who are learning to read, to help them become accustomed to looking at and understanding written words
- reading desk — a desk for use in reading, especially by a person standing.
- reading week — university: week-long break from classes
- richard korf — (person) A Professor of computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Richard Korf received his B.S. from MIT in 1977, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1980 and 1983. From 1983 to 1985 he served as Herbert M. Singer Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. Dr. Korf studies problem-solving, heuristic search and planning in artificial intelligence. He wrote "Learning to Solve Problems by Searching for Macro-Operators" (Pitman, 1985). He serves on the editorial boards of Artificial Intelligence, and the Journal of Applied Intelligence. Dr. Korf is the recipient of several awards and is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.
- rijksdaalder — a cupronickel or silver coin of the Netherlands, equal to 2½ guilders.
- rockhounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks
- sand cricket — Jerusalem cricket.
- 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".
- semi-skilled — A semi-skilled worker has some training and skills, but not enough to do specialized work.
- semi-skimmed — (of milk) having part of the cream removed, so it contains less animal fat and fewer calories than full cream milk
- semidarkness — partial darkness.
- send packing — to dismiss peremptorily
- severodvinsk — a city in the N Russian Federation in Europe, on Dvina Gulf, E of Archangel.
- sikandarabad — Secunderabad.
- sinking fund — a fund to extinguish an indebtedness, usually a bond issue.
- sitting duck — a helpless or easy target or victim: a sitting duck for shady financial schemes.
- skelic index — the ratio of the length of the leg to the length of the torso of a person, multiplied by 100.
- skimmed milk — milk from which the cream has been skimmed.
- skin disease — condition affecting the skin
- skip welding — a technique of spacing welds on thin structural members in order to balance and minimize internal stresses due to heat.
- skutterudite — a mineral, chiefly cobalt and nickel arsenide, (Co,Ni)As 3 , with some iron, occurring in the form of gray cubic crystals, usually in masses: a source of cobalt and nickel.
- slickensided — (of rock) polished by friction
- slipped disk — herniated disk.
- snake-hipped — having thin, sinuous hips.
- solid rocket — any of various rockets using solid fuel
- speedskating — a form of ice skating in which contestants race against each other or the clock over various distances
- sports drink — a drink containing sugar and salts, etc designed to help replace fluid and energy lost through the physical exertion of sport
- spotted dick — a steamed or boiled suet pudding containing dried fruit
- stick around — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- sticky blood — a condition of the blood, particularly associated with Hughes syndrome, in which antibodies tend to adhere to platelets and glue them together, leading to an increased likelihood of clotting
- stiff-necked — having a stiff neck; having torticollis.
- strike hands — to show agreement by clasping hands
- strong drink — alcoholic drink
- superkingdom — in some systems of biological classification, either of the two major subdivisions, prokaryote or eukaryote, into which all living organisms can be placed
- sydney silky — silky terrier.
- systems disk — a disk used to store computer programs, esp the basic operating programs of a computer
- tack welding — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
- tadzhikistan — a republic in central Asia, N of Afghanistan. 55,240 sq. mi. (143,600 sq. km). Capital: Dushanbe.
- take in hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.