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14-letter words containing i, c, k

  • poison hemlock — hemlock (defs 1, 3).
  • potluck dinner — a meal consisting of whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
  • practical joke — a playful trick, often involving some physical agent or means, in which the victim is placed in an embarrassing or disadvantageous position.
  • prawn cocktail — A prawn cocktail is a dish that consists of prawns, salad, and a sauce. It is usually eaten at the beginning of a meal.
  • pyjama cricket — one-day cricket, in which the players wear colourful clothing rather than the traditional whites used in longer forms of the game
  • quarterbacking — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
  • quick response — fast reaction time
  • quick thinking — problem-solving in an emergency
  • quick-tempered — easily angered.
  • quickie strike — a labor strike that has not been called or sanctioned by the officials of the union.
  • quicksilvering — the mercury on the back of a mirror
  • quicksilverish — resembling quicksilver
  • quiescent tank — a tank, usually for sewage sludge, in which the sludge is allowed to remain for a time so that sedimentation can occur
  • railroad track — railway line
  • raking cornice — either of two straight, sloping cornices on a pediment following or suggesting the slopes of a roof.
  • reception desk — the front desk in a hotel where guests can books rooms or ask questions
  • recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
  • reckon without — If you say that you had reckoned without something, you mean that you had not expected it and so were not prepared for it.
  • record-keeping — the maintenance of a history of one's activities, as financial dealings, by entering data in ledgers or journals, putting documents in files, etc.
  • reefing jacket — a man's short double-breasted jacket of sturdy wool
  • reservoir rock — rock that has sufficient porosity to contain accumulations of oil or gas.
  • ringneck snake — any of several small, nonvenomous North American snakes of the genus Diadophis, usually having a conspicuous yellow or orange ring around the neck.
  • rock formation — rock that is arranged or formed in a certain way
  • rock mechanics — the study of the mechanical behaviour of rocks, esp their strength, elasticity, permeability, porosity, density, and reaction to stress
  • rock partridge — the Greek partridge; Alectoris graeca
  • rocket science — rocketry.
  • rocking rhythm — a rhythmic pattern created by a succession of metrical feet each of which consists of one accented syllable between two unaccented ones.
  • rotating stock — Rotating stock is a system used especially in food stores and to reduce wastage, in which the oldest stock is moved to the front of shelves and new stock is added at the back.
  • ruhmkorff coil — induction coil.
  • 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.
  • shooting stick — a device resembling a cane or walking stick, with a spike on one end and a small, folding seat on the other, often used by spectators at outdoor sporting events.
  • 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.
  • ski instructor — sb who teaches skiing
  • 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.
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