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13-letter words containing k, i, c, e, r, s

  • lipstick tree — annatto (def 1).
  • love-stricken — If you describe someone as love-stricken, you mean that they are so much in love that they are behaving in a strange and foolish way.
  • microdiskette — Alternative spelling of micro-diskette.
  • mischiefmaker — Alternative form of mischief-maker.
  • monkey tricks — mischievous behaviour or acts, such as practical jokes
  • mortise block — a block having a shell cut from a single piece of wood.
  • new brunswick — a province in SE Canada, E of Maine. 27,985 sq. mi. (72,480 sq. km). Capital: Fredericton.
  • nickel silver — German silver.
  • nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
  • nike hercules — a 40 feet (12 meters) U.S. surface-to-air missile effective at medium to high altitudes and having a range of more than 87 miles (140 km).
  • office seeker — a person who seeks appointment or election to some government position.
  • paradise duck — a large duck, Casarca variegata, of New Zealand, having a brightly coloured plumage
  • peak district — a region of N central England, mainly in N Derbyshire at the S end of the Pennines: consists of moors in the north and a central limestone plateau; many caves. Highest point: 727 m (2088 ft)
  • pressed brick — face brick molded under pressure to a desired finish.
  • prick-teasing — the behaviour of a prick-tease
  • quick-release — (of part of a device, etc) capable of being detached quickly and easily
  • raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
  • rankine scale — William John Macquorn [muh-kwawrn] /məˈkwɔrn/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, Scottish engineer and physicist.
  • reduce a risk — If you reduce a risk, you lessen the potential damage that could be caused by a hazard or danger.
  • rock squirrel — a large, gray ground squirrel, Spermophilus variegatus, inhabiting rocky areas of the southwestern U.S.
  • 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.
  • safari jacket — bush jacket.
  • schiller park — a town in NE Illinois.
  • script kiddie — a child or teenager who gains illegal access to computer systems, often by using hacking programs downloaded from the internet
  • second-strike — noting, pertaining to, or using nuclear forces capable of withstanding attack and retaliating after an adversary has launched a first strike.
  • security leak — a leak of information that could endanger public safety
  • security risk — a person considered by authorities as likely to commit acts that might threaten the security of a country.
  • seiko rc-4000 — A wristwatch with an EIA-232 interface. A clip fitted round the watch and made electrical contact. This clip had a socket for a stereo style jack lead the other end of which was a 25-way D-type connector. The lead allowed you to enter phone numbers etc. into the watch without having to play with tiny buttons. It also meant if the battery on your watch ran out you could restore the data without having to type it all in again. It was around the era of the 8-bit home computers like the Spectrum, BBC Microcomputer, Apple II, C64 - the 1980s.
  • service break — an instance of a player winning a game against a server.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • slippery dick — a wrasse, Halichoeres bivittatus, inhabiting tropical regions of the Atlantic Ocean.
  • social market — an economic system in which industry and commerce are run by private enterprise within limits set by the government to ensure equality of opportunity and social and environmental responsibility
  • social worker — sb who assists local community
  • steering lock — an anti-theft device
  • sticker price — the dealer's full asking price of a new automobile as shown on a sticker attached to it and accompanied by an itemized list of the cost of its basic and optional equipment and other charges.
  • sticker shock — unpleasant surprise on learning of an unexpectedly high price for an item.
  • stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
  • strait-jacket — a garment made of strong material and designed to bind the arms, as of a violently disoriented person.
  • swagger stick — a short, batonlike stick, usually leather-covered, sometimes carried by army officers, soldiers, etc.
  • tennis racket — long-handled bat used in tennis
  • tinker's cuss — tinker's damn (def 1).
  • understocking — to provide an insufficient quantity, as of merchandise, supplies, or livestock.
  • unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
  • up shit creek — excrement; feces.
  • wicketkeepers — Plural form of wicketkeeper.
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