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12-letter words containing i, c, k, n, e

  • 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
  • pocket knife — A pocket knife is a small knife with several blades which fold into the handle so that you can carry it around with you safely.
  • prepackaging — to package (foodstuffs or manufactured goods) before retail distribution or sale.
  • pumpernickel — a coarse, dark, slightly sour bread made of unbolted rye.
  • quackishness — The state or condition of being quackish.
  • racing skate — a tubular ice skate having a long blade extending beyond the heel and toe.
  • racketeering — a person engaged in a racket.
  • raking piece — a sloping piece of scenery, as on a television or stage set, especially such a piece used for masking the side of a ramp.
  • rickenbacker — Edward Vernon ("Eddie") 1890–1973, U.S. aviator and aviation executive.
  • ring knocker — a commissioned officer in the U.S. armed forces who is a graduate of a military academy.
  • rock jasmine — any of several alpine plants belonging to the genus Androsace, of the primrose family, having tufted leaves often in basal rosettes, and umbels of pink, red, purple, or white flowers.
  • safecracking — the act of breaking into a safe
  • salk vaccine — a vaccine that contains three types of inactivated poliomyelitis viruses and induces immunity against the disease.
  • sand cricket — Jerusalem cricket.
  • sanity check — (programming)   1. Checking code (or anything else, e.g. a Usenet posting) for completely stupid mistakes. Implies that the check is to make sure the author was sane when it was written; e.g. if a piece of scientific software relied on a particular formula and was giving unexpected results, one might first look at the nesting of parentheses or the coding of the formula, as a "sanity check", before looking at the more complex I/O or data structure manipulation routines, much less the algorithm itself. Compare reality check. 2. A run-time test, either validating input or ensuring that the program hasn't screwed up internally (producing an inconsistent value or state).
  • science park — A science park is an area, usually linked to a university, where there are a lot of private companies, especially ones concerned with high technology.
  • scorekeeping — an official of a sports contest who keeps record of the score.
  • scrimshanker — a shirker
  • section mark — section (def 16).
  • 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.
  • send packing — to dismiss peremptorily
  • senior clerk — a clerk who is in a senior position and performs office tasks under minimal supervision
  • sign a check — When you sign a check , you write your name on it in a special space in order to validate it.
  • 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
  • socket joint — a joint in which the rounded end of one part fits into the cavity of another part
  • soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
  • specksioneer — a whaler
  • stick insect — walking stick (def 2).
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
  • stiff-necked — having a stiff neck; having torticollis.
  • stockingless — not wearing or having stockings
  • straightneck — a variety of summer squash related to the crookneck but not having a recurved neck.
  • tack welding — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
  • technojunkie — a person addicted to or obsessed by new technology
  • thick client — a computer having its own hard drive, as opposed to one on a network where most functions are carried out on a central server
  • thunderstick — bull-roarer.
  • ticket agent — a person who sells tickets, as for theater seats, train accommodations, etc.
  • tickled pink — to touch or stroke lightly with the fingers, a feather, etc., so as to excite a tingling or itching sensation in; titillate.
  • trainer sock — a sock designed to be worn with a training shoe, often cut low at the ankle so that very little shows above the shoe
  • trench knife — a short knife for stabbing, sometimes equipped with brass knuckles as a guard, used in modern warfare in hand-to-hand combat.
  • trick ending — an ending of a story or play, etc., that employs a surprise element or character to resolve the plot.
  • trickishness — the quality of being crafty
  • trickle-down — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
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