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11-letter words containing i, c, k, l, e

  • nickelodeon — an early motion-picture theater where a film or a variety show could be seen, usually for the admission price of a nickel.
  • oil derrick — derrick (def 2).
  • ostrichlike — a large, two-toed, swift-footed flightless bird, Struthio camelus, indigenous to Africa and Arabia, domesticated for its plumage: the largest of living birds.
  • overlocking — the act of oversewing a hem or fabric edge to prevent fraying
  • pickelhaube — a spiked German helmet from the 19th and 20th centuries
  • picket line — a line of strikers or other demonstrators serving as pickets.
  • pincer-like — resembling pincers in shape or action
  • placekicker — a player who takes place kicks
  • poikilocyte — an abnormally shaped red blood cell
  • police work — the everyday duties of police officers, esp the investigation of criminal activities
  • policymaker — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • prickleback — any of several blennioid fishes of the family Stichaeidae, usually inhabiting cold waters, having spiny rays in the dorsal fin.
  • quicksilver — the metallic element mercury.
  • racewalking — the activity of racing by walking fast rather than running
  • racket-tail — any of several birds with a racket-shaped tail, such as certain hummingbirds and kingfishers
  • rib-tickler — very amusing; funny or hilarious: a book of rib-tickling stories.
  • rickettsial — any member of the genus Rickettsia, comprising rod-shaped to coccoid microorganisms that resemble bacteria but can be as small as a large virus and reproduce only inside a living cell, parasitic in fleas, ticks, lice, and mites and transmitted by bite to vertebrate hosts, including humans, causing such severe diseases as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
  • rollicksome — rollicking; frolicsome.
  • schrecklich — frightful or horrible
  • scissorlike — like scissors; moving, operating, or crossing in a manner suggesting the blades of scissors.
  • shellacking — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
  • sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
  • sickle cell — an abnormal red blood cell having an elongated, crescentlike shape due to the presence of an abnormal hemoglobin.
  • silk-screen — Silk-screen printing is a method of printing patterns onto cloth by forcing paint or dyes through silk or similar material.
  • simnel cake — any of several kinds of rich fruitcake covered with almond paste.
  • singlestick — a short, heavy stick.
  • singletrack — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
  • skeptically — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
  • skillcentre — an institution providing vocational training or retraining for employed or unemployed people
  • slickenside — a rock surface that has become more or less polished and striated by slippage along a fault plane.
  • slit pocket — a pocket on the underside of a garment, reached through a vertical opening
  • sockdoliger — a conclusive argument; a hard blow
  • spinachlike — resembling or characteristic of spinach
  • stick style — a style in mid-Victorian American wooden architecture characterized by the use of vertical board siding with battens or grids of boards over horizontal siding to express the framing beneath.
  • stickhandle — (in hockey and lacrosse) to control and skillfully maneuver the ball or puck with the stick.
  • stickleader — a person assigned to check the appearance or condition of each person in a stick
  • stickleback — any of the small, pugnacious, spiny-backed fishes of the family Gasterosteidae, inhabiting northern fresh waters and sea inlets, the male of which builds and guards the nest.
  • sucker list — a list of names and addresses of persons considered by a business, charity organization, etc., to be likely purchasers or donors.
  • super-slick — very well-executed or presented
  • swivelblock — a block that supports a swivel
  • telekinetic — psychokinesis.
  • tickle pink — to please greatly
  • title track — The title track on a CD, record, or tape is a song or piece of music that has the same title as the CD, record, or tape.
  • travel-sick — nauseated from riding in a moving vehicle
  • trickledown — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
  • unchildlike — not childlike; uncharacteristic of a child; not resembling a child
  • winckelmann — Johann Joachim [yoh-hahn yoh-ah-khim] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈyoʊ ɑ xɪm/ (Show IPA), 1717–68, German archaeologist and art historian.
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