12-letter words containing i, c, e, k
- like a charm — perfectly; successfully
- linseed cake — a cake or a mass made by expressing the oil from linseed, used chiefly as feed for cattle.
- lovesickness — Quality or property of being lovesick.
- mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
- madeira cake — a kind of rich sponge cake
- magic cookie — 1. Something passed between routines or programs that enables the receiver to perform some operation; a capability ticket or opaque identifier. Especially used of small data objects that contain data encoded in a strange or intrinsically machine-dependent way. E.g. on non-Unix operating systems with a non-byte-stream model of files, the result of "ftell" may be a magic cookie rather than a byte offset; it can be passed to "fseek", but not operated on in any meaningful way. The phrase "it hands you a magic cookie" means it returns a result whose contents are not defined but which can be passed back to the same or some other program later. 2. An in-band code for changing graphic rendition (e.g. inverse video or underlining) or performing other control functions. Some older terminals would leave a blank on the screen corresponding to mode-change magic cookies; this was also called a glitch (or occasionally a "turd"; compare mouse droppings). See also cookie.
- magic marker — felt-tip pen
- magnetic ink — ink containing particles of a magnetic material used for printing characters for magnetic character recognition
- mail-cheeked — (of certain fishes) having the cheeks crossed with a bony plate.
- make certain — ensure
- make sb sick — disgust sb morally
- 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
- mickey mouse — trite and commercially slick in character; corny: mickey mouse music.
- microtektite — a microscopic tektite found in ocean sediments and polar ice.
- misreckoning — Present participle of misreckon.
- mock-serious — pretending to be serious as a joke, etc
- mole cricket — any of several burrowing crickets of the family Gryllotalpidae that have fossorial forelegs and that feed on the roots of plants.
- monkey climb — a wrestling throw in which a contestant seizes his or her opponent's arms or neck, places his feet on the opponent's stomach, and falls backwards, straightening the legs and throwing the opponent over his or her head
- 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.
- music locker — Digital Technology. an online service that supports cloud-based storage of digital music files so as to allow users to stream or download their personal music collections for playback on any compatible device: I uploaded all my CDs to a music locker, and now I can access the music from my laptop, tablet, or smartphone.
- neckerchiefs — Plural form of neckerchief.
- nice-looking — Someone who is nice-looking is physically attractive.
- niche market — specific or limited consumer interest
- nick of time — moment before sth is too late
- nickel oxide — a green, water-insoluble powder, NiO, used chiefly in the manufacture of nickel salts and in green pigments for ceramic paints.
- 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.
- nickelodeons — Plural form of nickelodeon.
- nordic skier — a person who practises cross-country racing and ski-jumping
- normokalemic — Having a normal percentage of potassium in one's blood.
- office block — a large office building.
- ohio buckeye — See under buckeye (def 1).
- 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.
- overclocking — Computers. to modify (a hardware component, as a processor, graphics card, or memory) so as to increase the speed of that component beyond the specifications of the manufacturer: You can overclock your video card to improve its performance.
- overstocking — to stock to excess: We are overstocked on this item.
- pack of lies — false account
- 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).
- packing case — a box in which goods are packed for transport or storage.
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- pancake coil — a coil (of wire, etc) wound in a flat circular shape
- parish clerk — an official designated to carry out various duties, either for a church parish or a parish council
- 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.