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

  • rock mechanics — the study of the mechanical behaviour of rocks, esp their strength, elasticity, permeability, porosity, density, and reaction to stress
  • rocket science — rocketry.
  • sackville-west — Dame Victoria Mary ("Vita") 1892–1962, English poet and novelist (wife of Harold Nicolson).
  • 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)
  • salt lake city — a state in the W United States. 84,916 sq. mi. (219,930 sq. km). Capital: Salt Lake City. Abbreviation: UT (for use with zip code), Ut.
  • schlockmeister — a person who deals in or sells inferior or worthless goods; junk dealer.
  • schoolies week — (in Australia) a week when large numbers of school leavers gather together for a holiday away from home after the end of their final exams
  • schottky noise — shot effect.
  • schumann-heink — Ernestine, 1861–1936, U.S. contralto, born in Bohemia.
  • security check — the process of checking that a person is not armed, or carrying something dangerous
  • self-mockingly — in a self-mocking manner
  • 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.
  • smoking jacket — a loose-fitting jacket for men, often of a heavy fabric and trimmed with braid, worn indoors, especially as a lounging jacket.
  • 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.
  • space sickness — a complex of symptoms including nausea, lethargy, headache, and sweating, occurring among astronauts under conditions of weightlessness.
  • speaking clock — a telephone service that gives a precise verbal statement of the correct time
  • speaking voice — a person's normal voice in which they speak
  • spring chicken — a young chicken, especially a broiler or fryer.
  • stadium jacket — an insulated, parkalike jacket that reaches to the mid thigh or the knees and often has a drawstring around the bottom edge, worn outdoors in cold weather.
  • 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
  • sticking place — Also called sticking point. the place or point at which something stops and holds firm.
  • 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 dividend — a form of dividend collected by a stockholder in extra shares of the corporation's stock rather than in cash.
  • 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
  • sucking diesel — doing very well; successful
  • suicide attack — a terrorist attack which someone undertakes knowing that he or she will die in the attack
  • summer kitchen — an extra kitchen, usually detached from a house, for use in warm weather.
  • the black isle — a peninsula in NE Scotland, in Highland council area, between the Cromarty and Moray Firths
  • the ice blacks — the international ice hockey team of New Zealand
  • thick register — chest register.
  • 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 question — sth asked to mislead or incriminate sb
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