10-letter words containing i, c, e, k
- saucerlike — resembling a saucer
- schipperke — one of a Belgian breed of small dogs having erect ears and a thick, black coat, originally used as a watchdog on boats in the Netherlands and Belgium.
- scythelike — an agricultural implement consisting of a long, curving blade fastened at an angle to a handle, for cutting grass, grain, etc., by hand.
- self-stick — having a surface coated or treated to stick to another surface without the use of glue or moisture; self-adhesive.
- shankpiece — a piece of metal or fiber for giving form to the shank of a shoe.
- sheep tick — a wingless, bloodsucking, dipterous insect, Melophagus ovinus, that is parasitic on sheep.
- shitkicker — an unsophisticated farmer, cowboy, or other rural person; country person.
- sick leave — leave from duty, work, or the like, granted because of illness.
- sickerness — sureness
- sickle bar — cutter bar (def 1).
- sicklebill — any of various birds having a long, curved bill, as the long-billed curlew or curve-billed thrasher.
- sicklemias — the usually asymptomatic hereditary condition that occurs when a person inherits from only one parent the abnormal hemoglobin gene characteristic of sickle cell anemia.
- sickliness — not strong; unhealthy; ailing.
- sicknesses — a particular disease or malady.
- side check — a checkrein passing back to the saddle from the side of a horse's head
- silkscreen — Also called silkscreen process. a printmaking technique in which a mesh cloth is stretched over a heavy wooden frame and the design, painted on the screen by tusche or affixed by stencil, is printed by having a squeegee force color through the pores of the material in areas not blocked out by a glue sizing.
- silverback — an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.
- skeletonic — resembling a skeleton
- skepticism — skeptical attitude or temper; doubt.
- sketchiest — like a sketch; giving only outlines or essentials. Synonyms: cursory, rough, meager, crude.
- slackening — an act of becoming looser
- snickering — to laugh in a half-suppressed, indecorous or disrespectful manner.
- sock-liner — a thin piece of material, as leather, that is laid on top of the insole of a shoe, boot, or other footwear.
- stickering — a person or thing that sticks.
- stickiness — having the property of adhering, as glue; adhesive.
- sticky end — a single-stranded end of DNA or RNA having a nucleotide base sequence complementary to that of another strand, enabling the two strands to be connected by base pairing: produced in the laboratory with the use of restriction enzymes for genetic engineering purposes.
- stickybeak — a busybody; meddler.
- stockiness — the quality of being stocky
- stockinged — a close-fitting covering for the foot and part of the leg, usually knitted, of wool, cotton, nylon, silk, or similar material.
- stockinger — a person who knits on a stocking frame
- stockrider — a cowboy.
- stuck pipe — Stuck pipe happens when part of the drillpipe cannot be turned or moved up or down.
- suckerfish — remora.
- superthick — extremely thick
- taperstick — a candlestick designed to hold tapers.
- the flicks — the cinema
- the sticks — remote rural place
- thick-knee — any of several crepuscular or nocturnal wading birds of the family Burhinidae, of the Old World and tropical America, having a thickened joint between the femoral and tibiotarsal bones.
- thickening — a making or becoming thick.
- thinkpiece — an article analyzing and giving the background of a news event, often with the author's opinions and forecast for the future.
- tick fever — any fever transmitted by ticks, as Rocky Mountain spotted fever, which attacks humans, or Texas fever, which is confined to some animals, as cattle.
- tick-borne — carried or transmitted by ticks: tick-borne disease.
- ticked off — a slight, sharp, recurring click, tap, or beat, as of a clock.
- ticket day — (on the London Stock Exchange) the day on which selling brokers receive from buying brokers the names of investors who have made purchases during the previous account
- ticketless — a slip, usually of paper or cardboard, serving as evidence that the holder has paid a fare or admission or is entitled to some service, right, or the like: a railroad ticket; a theater ticket.
- timberjack — a person whose occupation is logging; logger.
- time check — (in racing sports, such as motor racing, cycling, etc) an instance of checking the time taken to cover a specific distance. Time checks occur at prearranged points in a race
- time clock — a clock with an attachment that may be manually activated to stamp or otherwise record the exact time on a card or tape, used to keep a record of the time of something, as of the arrival and departure of employees.
- tipsy cake — a kind of trifle made from a sponge cake soaked with white wine or sherry and decorated with almonds and crystallized fruit
- trafficked — the movement of vehicles, ships, persons, etc., in an area, along a street, through an air lane, over a water route, etc.: the heavy traffic on Main Street.