11-letter words containing e, t, i, c, k
- maeterlinck — Comte Maurice [French moh-rees] /French moʊˈris/ (Show IPA), 1862–1947, Belgian poet, dramatist, and essayist: Nobel prize 1911.
- meal ticket — Carl Owen ("King Carl"; "The Meal Ticket") 1903–88, U.S. baseball pitcher.
- meatpacking — (US) The slaughter and further processing of animals for meat.
- metchnikoff — Élie [French ey-lee] /French eɪˈli/ (Show IPA), (Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov) 1845–1916, Russian zoologist and bacteriologist in France: Nobel Prize in medicine 1908.
- mitre block — a block of wood with slots for cutting mitre joints with a saw
- needlestick — Puncture of the skin by a hypodermic needle or other sharp object.
- nickel belt — the area around Sudbury in Northern Ontario, rich in nickel ore
- not cricket — If you say that someone's behaviour is not cricket, you mean that they have not behaved fairly.
- open ticket — a return ticket which does not specify a date for travel
- optokinetic — relating to a reflex whereby the eye follows a moving object
- ostrichlike — a large, two-toed, swift-footed flightless bird, Struthio camelus, indigenous to Africa and Arabia, domesticated for its plumage: the largest of living birds.
- pawn ticket — a receipt given for goods left with a pawnbroker.
- persnickety — overparticular; fussy.
- picket boat — a vessel used to patrol a harbor.
- picket duty — the activity of standing outside an establishment to make a protest, to dissuade or prevent employees or clients from entering, etc
- picket line — a line of strikers or other demonstrators serving as pickets.
- pickup tube — camera tube.
- pocket-size — small enough to fit conveniently into one's pocket.
- pocketknife — a knife with one or more blades that fold into the handle, suitable for carrying in the pocket.
- poikilocyte — an abnormally shaped red blood cell
- pot sticker — a pan-fried and steamed Chinese dumpling with a ground meat or vegetable filling.
- preticketed — having or furnished with a ticket beforehand: preticketed passengers.
- prick-tease — a woman who is sexually provocative but refuses to engage in sexual activity
- pyrokinetic — the ability to set objects or people on fire through the concentration of psychic power.
- quickwitted — Alternative spelling of quick-witted.
- racket-tail — any of several birds with a racket-shaped tail, such as certain hummingbirds and kingfishers
- reckon with — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- rheumaticky — affected with rheumatism
- rib-tickler — very amusing; funny or hilarious: a book of rib-tickling stories.
- rickettsial — any member of the genus Rickettsia, comprising rod-shaped to coccoid microorganisms that resemble bacteria but can be as small as a large virus and reproduce only inside a living cell, parasitic in fleas, ticks, lice, and mites and transmitted by bite to vertebrate hosts, including humans, causing such severe diseases as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
- rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
- schick test — a diphtheria immunity test in which diphtheria toxoid is injected intracutaneously, nonimmunity being indicated by an inflammation at the injection site.
- septic tank — a tank in which solid organic sewage is decomposed and purified by anaerobic bacteria.
- shirtjacket — a jacket styled like a shirt
- shitkickers — an unsophisticated farmer, cowboy, or other rural person; country person.
- sidetracked — any railroad track, other than a siding, auxiliary to the main track.
- singlestick — a short, heavy stick.
- singletrack — (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.
- skeptically — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
- sketchiness — like a sketch; giving only outlines or essentials. Synonyms: cursory, rough, meager, crude.
- skillcentre — an institution providing vocational training or retraining for employed or unemployed people
- skin effect — the phenomenon in which an alternating current tends to concentrate in the outer layer of a conductor, caused by the self-induction of the conductor and resulting in increased resistance.
- skip tracer — an investigator whose job is to locate missing persons, especially debtors.
- slit pocket — a pocket on the underside of a garment, reached through a vertical opening
- snickometer — a device, which uses sound waves recorded by the stump microphone, employed by TV commentators to determine whether or not a batsman has made contact with the ball
- spitsticker — a wood-engraving tool with a fine prow-shaped point for cutting curved lines
- stick style — a style in mid-Victorian American wooden architecture characterized by the use of vertical board siding with battens or grids of boards over horizontal siding to express the framing beneath.
- stickhandle — (in hockey and lacrosse) to control and skillfully maneuver the ball or puck with the stick.
- stickleader — a person assigned to check the appearance or condition of each person in a stick
- stickleback — any of the small, pugnacious, spiny-backed fishes of the family Gasterosteidae, inhabiting northern fresh waters and sea inlets, the male of which builds and guards the nest.