12-letter words containing k, i, c, e, r
- prepackaging — to package (foodstuffs or manufactured goods) before retail distribution or sale.
- price ticket — a ticket or label on an article for sale showing its price
- prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.
- prickly pear — any of numerous cacti of the genus Opuntia, having flattened, usually spiny stem joints, yellow, orange, or reddish flowers, and ovoid, often edible fruit.
- puck-carrier — the player who has the puck and moves it along.
- pumpernickel — a coarse, dark, slightly sour bread made of unbolted rye.
- quick-freeze — to freeze (cooked or uncooked food) rapidly, permitting it to be stored almost indefinitely at freezing temperatures.
- quicksilvery — resembling quicksilver
- racing skate — a tubular ice skate having a long blade extending beyond the heel and toe.
- racketeering — a person engaged in a racket.
- radar picket — a ship, vehicle, or aircraft stationed at a distance from a protected force to increase radar detection range.
- 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.
- receipt book — book containing receipt slips
- 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 climber — sb who scales mountains
- rock glacier — a mass of rock resembling a valley glacier that moves or is moved down a slope by its own weight or by the action of frost and interstitial ice.
- 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.
- rubik's cube — a puzzle consisting of a cube with colored faces made of 26 smaller colored blocks attached to a spindle in the center, the object being to rotate the blocks until each face of the cube is a single color.
- safecracking — the act of breaking into a safe
- sand cricket — Jerusalem cricket.
- 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).
- senior clerk — a clerk who is in a senior position and performs office tasks under minimal supervision
- service book — a book containing the forms of worship used in divine services.
- service mark — a proprietary term, such as Blue Cross and Blue Shield, American Express, or Planned Parenthood, that is registered with the Patent and Trademark Office. Abbreviation: SM.
- shirt jacket — a shirtlike jacket.
- 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.
- sitka spruce — a spruce, Picea sitchensis, of western North America, having long, silvery-white needles, grown as an ornamental.
- skeuomorphic — an ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques, as an imitation metal rivet mark found on handles of prehistoric pottery.
- skirt chaser — a womanizer.
- skirt-chaser — a womanizer.
- slipper sock — a sock with a soft leather or vinyl sole sewn onto it, used as indoor footwear.
- smart cookie — intelligent or sharp-witted person
- solid rocket — any of various rockets using solid fuel
- specksioneer — a whaler
- stick figure — a diagrammatic drawing representing a human or animal, usually made with one line each for the torso and appendages, and often a circle for the head.
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- stock ticker — ticker (def 1).
- straightneck — a variety of summer squash related to the crookneck but not having a recurved neck.
- straitjacket — a garment made of strong material and designed to bind the arms, as of a violently disoriented person.
- strike force — a military force armed and trained for attack.
- strike lucky — If you strike lucky or strike it lucky, you have some good luck.
- strike price — The strike price is the price of an option when it is exercised.
- test cricket — a form of cricket that takes the longest amount of time to play
- the flickers — the cinema