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12-letter words containing e, t, i, c, k

  • make certain — ensure
  • market price — the price at which a commodity, security, or service is selling in the open market.
  • meat packing — the business or industry of slaughtering cattle and other meat animals and processing the carcasses for sale, sometimes including the packaging of processed meat products.
  • memory stick — computing: flashcard, dongle
  • microtektite — a microscopic tektite found in ocean sediments and polar ice.
  • mole cricket — any of several burrowing crickets of the family Gryllotalpidae that have fossorial forelegs and that feed on the roots of plants.
  • moonstricken — Moonstruck.
  • mortice lock — A mortice lock is a type of lock which fits into a hole cut into the edge of a door rather than being fixed to one side of it.
  • mortise lock — a lock housed within a mortise in a door or the like, so that the lock mechanism is covered on both sides.
  • multitracked — (music) Recorded on multiple tracks.
  • niche market — specific or limited consumer interest
  • nick of time — moment before sth is too late
  • nickel plate — thin coating of nickel
  • nickel steel — steel to which up to 9 percent nickel has been added.
  • nickel-plate — to coat with nickel by electroplating or other process.
  • on the stick — alert, efficient, etc.
  • orange stick — a slender, rounded stick, originally of orangewood, having tapered ends and used in manicuring, especially to push back the cuticles or clean the fingernails.
  • overstocking — to stock to excess: We are overstocked on this item.
  • packet radio — (communications, radio)   The use of packet switched communications protocols in large networks (i.e not wireless LANs or Bluetooth) having wireless links to terminals at least. Packet radio is split into amateur packet radio (AX25) and General Packet Radio Service (GRPS).
  • parity check — a method for detecting errors in data communications or within a computer system by counting the number of ones or zeros per byte or per word, including a special check bit (parity bit) to see if the value is even or odd.
  • payback time — Payback time is when someone has to take the consequences of what they have done in the past. You can use this expression to talk about good or bad consequences.
  • peak traffic — traffic at the time it is most busy
  • penalty kick — a free kick awarded for an infraction committed by a defensive player in the penalty area and taken by the offensive player who has been fouled from a point 12 yards (11 meters) directly in front of the goal.
  • pencil skirt — women's garment: straight skirt
  • petach tikva — a city in W Israel, NE of Tel Aviv.
  • pickeringite — a mineral, magnesia alum, occurring usually in the form of white fibrous masses.
  • picket fence — a fence consisting of pickets or pales nailed to horizontal stringers between upright posts.
  • picture book — a book consisting mainly or entirely of pictures, especially one for children who have not yet learned to read.
  • picture desk — the department at a magazine or newspaper publisher, that deals with photographs for the paper or magazine
  • pilot jacket — a type of leather jacket associated with U.S. Army pilots in World War II
  • plane ticket — entitlement to travel by aircraft
  • pocket drive — a small portable memory device that can be plugged into the USB port of many different types of computer
  • pocket knife — A pocket knife is a small knife with several blades which fold into the handle so that you can carry it around with you safely.
  • pocket piece — (in a window frame) a removable part of a pulley stile permitting access to sash weights.
  • pocket-sized — If you describe something as pocket-sized, you approve of it because it is small enough to fit in your pocket.
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • price ticket — a ticket or label on an article for sale showing its price
  • prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.
  • quick assets — assets readily convertible into cash; liquid current assets
  • quick-witted — having a nimble, alert mind.
  • quickstepped — Simple past tense and past participle of quickstep.
  • racing skate — a tubular ice skate having a long blade extending beyond the heel and toe.
  • racketeering — a person engaged in a racket.
  • radar picket — a ship, vehicle, or aircraft stationed at a distance from a protected force to increase radar detection range.
  • receipt book — book containing receipt slips
  • 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).
  • section mark — section (def 16).
  • selfie stick — a rod on which a camera or mobile phone may be mounted in order to take a photograph of oneself
  • septic shock — condition caused by blood poisoning
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