14-letter words containing i, c, k, e, r
- reception desk — the front desk in a hotel where guests can books rooms or ask questions
- recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
- reckon without — If you say that you had reckoned without something, you mean that you had not expected it and so were not prepared for it.
- record-keeping — the maintenance of a history of one's activities, as financial dealings, by entering data in ledgers or journals, putting documents in files, etc.
- reefing jacket — a man's short double-breasted jacket of sturdy wool
- reservoir rock — rock that has sufficient porosity to contain accumulations of oil or gas.
- ringneck snake — any of several small, nonvenomous North American snakes of the genus Diadophis, usually having a conspicuous yellow or orange ring around the neck.
- rock mechanics — the study of the mechanical behaviour of rocks, esp their strength, elasticity, permeability, porosity, density, and reaction to stress
- rock partridge — the Greek partridge; Alectoris graeca
- rocket science — rocketry.
- sakha republic — an administrative division in E Russia, in NE Siberia on the Arctic Ocean: the coldest inhabited region of the world; it has rich mineral resources. Capital: Yakutsk. Pop: 948 100 (2002). Area: 3 103 200 sq km (1 197 760 sq miles)
- schlockmeister — a person who deals in or sells inferior or worthless goods; junk dealer.
- security check — the process of checking that a person is not armed, or carrying something dangerous
- self-reckoning — count; computation; calculation.
- serum sickness — a generalized allergic reaction to a foreign serum or drug, characterized by fever, skin rash, enlarged lymph nodes, and painful joints.
- shield cricket — the interstate cricket competition held for the Sheffield Shield
- shipping clerk — a clerk who attends to the packing, unpacking, receiving, sending out, and recording of shipments.
- sick and tired — afflicted with ill health or disease; ailing.
- sickle feather — one of the paired, elongated, sickle-shaped, middle feathers of the tail of the rooster.
- single-sticker — a sailboat, esp. a sloop, having only one mast
- skew-symmetric — noting a square matrix that is equal to the negative of its transpose.
- skull practice — a meeting for the purpose of discussion, exchange of ideas, solving problems, etc.
- social drinker — a person who drinks alcoholic beverages usually in the company of others and is in control of his or her drinking.
- social network — a network of friends, colleagues, and other personal contacts: Strong social networks can encourage healthy behaviors.
- spring chicken — a young chicken, especially a broiler or fryer.
- steam cracking — Steam cracking is the main method of breaking down large molecules of hydrocarbons, in which a gaseous or liquid hydrocarbon is diluted with steam and then heated.
- stick together — be united
- sticky fingers — an inclination or tendency to steal or pilfer
- stinking cedar — an evergreen tree, Torreya taxifolia, of the yew family, native to Florida, having rank-smelling foliage and dark-green, egg-shaped fruit.
- stock in trade — the requisites for carrying on a business, especially goods kept on hand for sale in a store.
- stock watering — the creation of more new shares in a company than is justified by its assets
- stock-in-trade — items used in performing a job
- stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
- straightjacket — to put in or as in a straitjacket: Her ambition was straitjacketed by her family.
- strike it rich — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- striking price — in an option contract, the specified price at which a stock, commodity, etc. may be bought or sold; the price at which an investor can exercise profitably a put or call
- summer kitchen — an extra kitchen, usually detached from a house, for use in warm weather.
- take a picture — capture sb or sth on camera
- take the chair — to preside as chairman for a meeting, etc
- thick register — chest register.
- ticket barrier — gate in train station
- ticket counter — the place where you buy a ticket for public transport, the theatre, cinema, etc
- ticket scalper — an unauthorized ticket speculator who buys tickets to a performance or sports event and resells them at inflated prices.
- 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.