12-letter words containing i, c, k, l
- 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.
- pack of lies — false account
- pack rolling — the hot rolling of metal sheets in two or more thicknesses to produce composite sheets.
- packing slip — A packing slip is a list of what is included in a shipment.
- 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
- pelican hook — a hooklike device for holding the link of a chain or the like, consisting of a long shackle with a hinged rod held closed with a sliding ring.
- penalty kick — a free kick awarded for an infraction committed by a defensive player in the penalty area and taken by the offensive player who has been fouled from a point 12 yards (11 meters) directly in front of the goal.
- pencil skirt — women's garment: straight skirt
- pickerelweed — any American plant of the genus Pontederia, especially P. cordata, having spikes of blue flowers, common in shallow fresh water.
- pigeon clock — a device for timing the arrivals of pigeons being raced, consisting of a magazine for holding the identification bands of the contestants in the order in which they are inserted and a recording clock to register the times of insertion.
- pillow block — a cast-iron or steel block for supporting a journal or bearing.
- pilot jacket — a type of leather jacket associated with U.S. Army pilots in World War II
- plane ticket — entitlement to travel by aircraft
- play chicken — to engage in a test of courage in which, typically, two vehicles are driven directly toward one another in order to see which driver will swerve away first
- plinth block — a plinth interrupting a door or window architrave at the floor or ground level.
- policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- policymaking — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.
- prickly pear — any of numerous cacti of the genus Opuntia, having flattened, usually spiny stem joints, yellow, orange, or reddish flowers, and ovoid, often edible fruit.
- public works — government-funded construction
- pumpernickel — a coarse, dark, slightly sour bread made of unbolted rye.
- quacksalving — resembling or characteristic of a quacksalver
- quicksilvery — resembling quicksilver
- rack railway — cog railway.
- rapacki plan — the denuclearization of Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and West Germany, proposed by Adam Rapacki (1909–70), the Polish foreign minister, in 1957
- rib-tickling — very amusing; funny or hilarious: a book of rib-tickling stories.
- risk capital — venture capital.
- rock climber — sb who scales mountains
- rock glacier — a mass of rock resembling a valley glacier that moves or is moved down a slope by its own weight or by the action of frost and interstitial ice.
- salk vaccine — a vaccine that contains three types of inactivated poliomyelitis viruses and induces immunity against the disease.
- salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
- scafell pike — a mountain in NW England, in Cumberland: highest peak in England. 3210 feet (978 meters).
- schappe silk — a yarn or fabric of or similar to spun silk.
- self-cooking — the act of a person or thing that cooks.
- self-locking — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- self-mocking — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- selfie stick — a rod on which a camera or mobile phone may be mounted in order to take a photograph of oneself
- senior clerk — a clerk who is in a senior position and performs office tasks under minimal supervision
- silk factory — plant where silk fabric is produced
- silky cornel — a cornel, Cornus amomum, of the eastern U.S., having leaves covered with short, silky hairs on the underside and bearing blue berries.
- single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
- single-track — (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.
- skelic index — the ratio of the length of the leg to the length of the torso of a person, multiplied by 100.
- slickensided — (of rock) polished by friction
- slipper sock — a sock with a soft leather or vinyl sole sewn onto it, used as indoor footwear.
- solid rocket — any of various rockets using solid fuel
- spinal block — spinal anesthesia.
- split ticket — a ballot on which not all votes have been cast for candidates of the same party.