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

  • packing crate — A packing crate is a large wooden box in which things are put so that they can be stored or taken somewhere.
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • parking place — an reserved area or a space in a street where a car may be parked
  • peace-keeping — the maintenance of international peace and security by the deployment of military forces in a particular area: the United Nations' efforts toward peacekeeping.
  • pecking order — Animal Behavior. a dominance hierarchy, seen especially in domestic poultry, that is maintained by one bird pecking another of lower status.
  • phone hacking — an act or instance of gaining access to a phone's voicemail, email, text messages, etc., without authorization from the phone's owner.
  • pick holes in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
  • picnic basket — woven container for carrying food outdoors
  • poker machine — a fruit machine
  • porcelainlike — resembling porcelain
  • prick-teasing — the behaviour of a prick-tease
  • psychokinesis — the purported ability to move or deform inanimate objects, as metal spoons, through mental processes.
  • purkinje cell — a large, densely branching neuron in the cerebellar cortex of the brain.
  • quick-setting — setting quickly, as a cement, paint, or gelatin.
  • quickstepping — Present participle of quickstep.
  • raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
  • rankine cycle — the hypothetical cycle of a steam engine in which all heat transfers take place at constant pressure and in which expansion and compression occur adiabatically.
  • rankine scale — William John Macquorn [muh-kwawrn] /məˈkwɔrn/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, Scottish engineer and physicist.
  • recordkeeping — the maintenance of a history of one's activities, as financial dealings, by entering data in ledgers or journals, putting documents in files, etc.
  • return ticket — a ticket for the return portion of a trip.
  • riding jacket — coat worn for horse-riding
  • rocket engine — a reaction engine that produces a thrust due to an exhaust consisting entirely of material, as oxidizer, fuel, and inert matter, that has been carried with the engine in the vehicle it propels, none of the propellant being derived from the medium through which the vehicle moves.
  • rocking horse — a toy horse, as of wood, mounted on rockers or springs, on which children may ride; hobbyhorse.
  • rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
  • rocking stone — any fairly large rock so situated on its base that slight forces can cause it to move or sway.
  • rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
  • rubbernecking — staring or gaping inquisitively, esp in a naive or foolish manner
  • sandwich cake — a cake that is made up of two or more layers with a jam or other filling
  • season ticket — a ticket for a specified series or number of events or valid for unlimited use during a specified time, often sold at a reduced rate, for athletic events, concerts, transportation, etc.
  • second-strike — noting, pertaining to, or using nuclear forces capable of withstanding attack and retaliating after an adversary has launched a first strike.
  • single ticket — a one-way ticket.
  • single wicket — a rare form of cricket in which only one wicket is used.
  • single-decker — A single-decker or a single-decker bus is a bus with only one deck.
  • singlesticker — a vessel, especially a sloop or cutter, having one mast.
  • skepticalness — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
  • skin reaction — an irritation or inflammation of the skin due to an allergy or infection, brought about by natural means or by a skin test.
  • skip distance — the minimum distance along the earth's surface between the position of a short-wave transmitter and the region where its signal is received after one reflection from the ionosphere.
  • speech making — act of addressing the public formally
  • steering lock — an anti-theft device
  • sticks&stones — (language, functional programming)   A functional, polymorphic hardware description language loosely based on ML by Lucca Cardelli.
  • stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
  • sucking louse — See under louse (def 1).
  • take occasion — to avail oneself of an opportunity (to do something)
  • take stock in — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
  • talking chief — a noble who serves as public spokesperson for the chief in some Polynesian tribes.
  • tarpeian rock — a rock on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, from which criminals and traitors were hurled.
  • tennis racket — long-handled bat used in tennis
  • thick-skinned — having a thick skin.
  • ticket agency — an agency dealing in the sale of tickets, especially theater tickets.
  • tinker's cuss — tinker's damn (def 1).
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