14-letter words containing i, c, k
- social drinker — a person who drinks alcoholic beverages usually in the company of others and is in control of his or her drinking.
- social network — a network of friends, colleagues, and other personal contacts: Strong social networks can encourage healthy behaviors.
- sorting tracks — the part of a railroad yard used for the final sorting of cars from a classification yard.
- sounding-block — a small block of wood for rapping with a gavel.
- space sickness — a complex of symptoms including nausea, lethargy, headache, and sweating, occurring among astronauts under conditions of weightlessness.
- speaking clock — a telephone service that gives a precise verbal statement of the correct time
- speaking voice — a person's normal voice in which they speak
- spick and span — spotlessly clean and neat: a spick-and-span kitchen.
- spick-and-span — spotlessly clean and neat: a spick-and-span kitchen.
- spring chicken — a young chicken, especially a broiler or fryer.
- stadium jacket — an insulated, parkalike jacket that reaches to the mid thigh or the knees and often has a drawstring around the bottom edge, worn outdoors in cold weather.
- starting block — a device used by runners, especially sprinters, for increasing their speed off the mark, consisting of a metal or wooden frame, usually secured to the ground at both ends, with adjustable, triangular-shaped blocks on each side for bracing the feet.
- steam cracking — Steam cracking is the main method of breaking down large molecules of hydrocarbons, in which a gaseous or liquid hydrocarbon is diluted with steam and then heated.
- stick together — be united
- sticking place — Also called sticking point. the place or point at which something stops and holds firm.
- sticking point — a point, detail, or circumstance causing or likely to cause a stalemate or impasse: The bill would have gone through the Senate quickly but for one sticking point.
- sticky fingers — an inclination or tendency to steal or pilfer
- stinking cedar — an evergreen tree, Torreya taxifolia, of the yew family, native to Florida, having rank-smelling foliage and dark-green, egg-shaped fruit.
- stock dividend — a form of dividend collected by a stockholder in extra shares of the corporation's stock rather than in cash.
- stock in trade — the requisites for carrying on a business, especially goods kept on hand for sale in a store.
- stock solution — a concentrated chemical solution, diluted before using.
- stock watering — the creation of more new shares in a company than is justified by its assets
- stock-in-trade — items used in performing a job
- stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
- straightjacket — to put in or as in a straitjacket: Her ambition was straitjacketed by her family.
- strike it rich — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- striking price — in an option contract, the specified price at which a stock, commodity, etc. may be bought or sold; the price at which an investor can exercise profitably a put or call
- sucking diesel — doing very well; successful
- suicide attack — a terrorist attack which someone undertakes knowing that he or she will die in the attack
- summer kitchen — an extra kitchen, usually detached from a house, for use in warm weather.
- surgical shock — a state of shock that can occur during or after surgery
- tacking stitch — a long, loose, temporary stitch used in dressmaking, etc
- tailor's chalk — hardened chalk or soapstone used to make temporary guide marks on a garment that is being altered.
- take a picture — capture sb or sth on camera
- take exception — to make objections (to); demur (at)
- take no notice — If you take no notice of someone or something, you do not consider them to be important enough to affect what you think or what you do.
- take the chair — to preside as chairman for a meeting, etc
- the black isle — a peninsula in NE Scotland, in Highland council area, between the Cromarty and Moray Firths
- the ice blacks — the international ice hockey team of New Zealand
- thick and fast — If things happen thick and fast, they happen very quickly and in large numbers.
- thick and thin — all manner of difficulties
- thick register — chest register.
- throwing stick — a short, straight or curved stick, flat or cylindrical in form, often having a hand grip, and used generally in preliterate societies as a hunting weapon to throw at birds and small game.
- ticket barrier — gate in train station
- ticket counter — the place where you buy a ticket for public transport, the theatre, cinema, etc
- ticket machine — automated ticket dispenser
- ticket scalper — an unauthorized ticket speculator who buys tickets to a performance or sports event and resells them at inflated prices.
- to think twice — If you think twice about doing something, you consider it again and decide not to do it, or decide to do it differently.
- track lighting — lighting for a room or other area in which individual spotlight fixtures are attached along a narrow, wall- or ceiling-mounted metal track through which current is conducted, permitting flexible positioning of the lights.
- tracking radar — a radar system emitting a narrow beam which oscillates about the target, thus compensating for abrupt changes of direction