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14-letter words containing i, c, e, k

  • ticket machine — automated ticket dispenser
  • ticket scalper — an unauthorized ticket speculator who buys tickets to a performance or sports event and resells them at inflated prices.
  • to think twice — If you think twice about doing something, you consider it again and decide not to do it, or decide to do it differently.
  • train sickness — nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, resulting from the motion of the train in which one is traveling.
  • trick or treat — Halloween tradition
  • trick question — sth asked to mislead or incriminate sb
  • trick-or-treat — to become involved or take part in trick or treat.
  • trickle charge — a continuous, slow charge supplied to a storage battery to keep it in a fully charged state.
  • turkish coffee — a strong, usually sweetened coffee, made by boiling the pulverized coffee beans.
  • turn the trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
  • uncrowned king — a man or woman of high status among a certain group
  • vernier rocket — a small, low-thrust rocket engine for correcting the heading and velocity of a long-range ballistic missile.
  • vickers number — a numerical expression of the hardness of a metal as determined by a test (Vickers test) in which the sample is indented under a known pressure by the point of a diamond and the surface area of the indentation is divided into the amount of pressure applied.
  • walk-in closet — a closet that is large enough to walk around in.
  • walking ticket — walking papers.
  • white charlock — a related plant, Raphanus raphanistrum, with yellow, mauve, or white flowers and podlike fruits
  • white-knuckled — causing fear, apprehension, or panic: The plane made a white-knuckle approach to the fogged-in airport.
  • wild buckwheat — umbrella plant (def 3).
  • wildcat strike — unofficial work stoppage
  • windsor rocker — a Windsor chair on rockers
  • winkle-pickers — shoes or boots with very pointed narrow toes, popular in the mid-20th century
  • wrecking crane — a crane for lifting and removing wrecked rolling stock.
  • writer's block — a usually temporary condition in which a writer finds it impossible to proceed with the writing of a novel, play, or other work.
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