10-letter words containing i, c, e, k
- mid-wicket — the fielding position on the on side, approximately midway between square leg and mid-on
- milk vetch — a European plant, Astragalus glycyphyllos, of the legume family, believed to increase the secretion of milk in goats.
- mispackage — a bundle of something, usually of small or medium size, that is packed and wrapped or boxed; parcel.
- mosaiclike — (arts) Resembling a mosaic, particularly in composition.
- myslivecek — Josef [yaw-zef] /ˈyɔ zɛf/ (Show IPA), 1737–81, Czech composer.
- necklacing — Present participle of necklace.
- neckpieces — Plural form of neckpiece.
- nectarlike — Resembling or characteristic of nectar.
- nickeltype — an electrotype with a deposit of nickel.
- nitpickers — Plural form of nitpicker.
- no chicken — no longer young
- nonkinetic — pertaining to motion.
- orchidlike — Resembling an orchid or some aspect of one.
- pacemaking — the act of setting a pace for race competitors
- pawnticket — a ticket or receipt for a pawned item
- peacocking — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
- peacockish — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
- penderecki — Krzysztof [kshish-tawf] /ˈkʃɪʃ tɔf/ (Show IPA), born 1933, Polish composer.
- pernickety — persnickety.
- pick holes — If you pick holes in an argument or theory, you find weak points in it so that it is no longer valid.
- pick-me-up — an alcoholic drink taken to restore one's energy or good spirits.
- pickedness — sharpness or the state of being pointed
- picketboat — a boat which keeps guard
- pickleworm — the larva of a pyralid moth, Diaphania nitidalis, that bores into the stem and fruit of squash, cucumber, and other cucurbitaceous plants.
- pickpocket — a person who steals money, wallets, etc., from the pockets of people, as in crowded public places.
- picnickers — an excursion or outing in which the participants carry food with them and share a meal in the open air.
- pigsticker — to hunt for wild boar, usually on horseback and using a spear.
- pitch lake — a deposit of natural asphalt in SW Trinidad, West Indies. 114 acres (47 hectares).
- place kick — a kick in which the ball is placed in position before it is kicked
- place-kick — to make (a field goal or point after touchdown) by a place kick.
- pluckiness — having or showing pluck or courage; brave: The drowning swimmer was rescued by a plucky schoolboy.
- poker dice — (used with a plural verb) dice that, instead of being marked with spots, carry on their faces a picture or symbol representing the six highest playing cards: ace, king, queen, jack, ten, nine.
- potsticker — a pan-fried and steamed Chinese dumpling with a ground meat or vegetable filling.
- prepacking — a package assembled by a manufacturer, distributor, or retailer and containing a specific number of items or a specific assortment of sizes, colors, flavors, etc., of a product.
- quick fire — rapid continuous gunfire, esp at a moving target
- quick time — Military. a rate of marching in which 120 paces, each of 30 inches (76.2 cm), are taken in a minute.
- quick-fire — firing or equipped for firing rapidly, especially at moving targets.
- quickening — to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten: She quickened her pace.
- quicksteps — Plural form of quickstep.
- quickwater — the part of a river or other stream having a strong current.
- rain check — a ticket for future use given to spectators at an outdoor event, as a baseball game or concert, that has been postponed or interrupted by rain.
- reblocking — a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more flat or approximately flat faces.
- reichsbank — the former German national bank.
- reichsmark — the monetary unit of Germany from November, 1924, until 1948. Compare Deutsche mark, mark2 (def 1), ostmark.
- retracking — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- rickburner — an arsonist who sets fire to haystacks
- rickettsia — 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.
- riebeckite — an amphibolic mineral, silicate of sodium and iron, occurring usually in feldspathoid rocks.
- rock tripe — any lichen of the genus Umbilicaria.
- rubik cube — a puzzle consisting of a cube with colored faces made of 26 smaller colored blocks attached to a spindle in the center, the object being to rotate the blocks until each face of the cube is a single color.