13-letter words containing k, i, c
- craftsmanlike — Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman.
- cricket table — a three-legged table of the Jacobean period.
- cringe-making — causing feelings of acute embarrassment or distaste
- cripple creek — a village in central Colorado: gold-mining centre since 1891, once the richest in the world
- crock of shit — a quantity or source of lies or nonsense
- crosschecking — Present participle of crosscheck.
- cucking stool — stool in which suspected witches were tested
- cuckoo shrike — any Old World tropical songbird of the family Campephagidae, typically having a strong notched bill, long rounded tail, and pointed wings
- cuckoo-shrike — any of numerous Old World passerine birds of the family Campephagidae, certain species of which superficially resemble cuckoos and have hooked bills like shrikes.
- cuticle stick — a piece of wood with a flattened end used to push back the cuticles from one's nails
- cyberslacking — (informal) Use of the Internet during work hours for unrelated tasks.
- cyberstalking — Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet to contact someone or find out information about them in a way that is annoying or frightening.
- cylinder desk — a desk having a cylinder front, usually a tambour but occasionally of solid wood.
- dabbling duck — any of numerous shallow-water ducks, especially of the genus Anas, that typically feed by upending and dabbling (contrasted with diving duck).
- dark reaction — the stage of photosynthesis involving the reduction of carbon dioxide and the dissociation of water, using chemical energy stored in ATP: does not require the presence of light
- decisionmaker — One who makes decisions.
- detectivelike — Resembling a detective or some aspect of one.
- dick size war — penis war
- digby chicken — a smoked herring.
- digging stick — a pointed or spatulate wooden stick, sometimes having a stone weight or crossbar attached and used in primitive societies for loosening the ground to extract buried wild plant foods and for tilling the soil.
- digital clock — a clock that displays the time in numerical digits rather than by hands on a dial.
- dinner jacket — tuxedo (def 1).
- diplock court — in Northern Ireland, a court of law designed to try cases linked with terrorism. In order to prevent the intimidation of jurors, the court consists of a single judge and no jury
- dipstick test — a test for detecting the presence of sugar in the urine, as in diabetes.
- disk capacity — the maximum number of bytes that can be held on a disk
- double nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
- double wicket — cricket in which two wickets are used, being the usual form of the game.
- double-nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
- dressing sack — a woman's dressing gown.
- duck shooting — duck hunting with a gun
- ducking stool — a former instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which an offender was tied to be plunged into water.
- eight o'clock — 8 a.m.
- evening stock — a plant, Matthiola incana, of the genus Matthiola, of the Mediterranean region, cultivated for its brightly coloured flowers: Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- exercise bike — exercise machine like a bicycle
- exercise book — An exercise book is a small book that students use for writing in.
- fast-tracking — the practice of speeding up the progress of a project or person
- feinschmecker — gourmet.
- fickle-minded — (of a person) prone to casual change; inconstant.
- fiddlesticks! — an expression of annoyance or disagreement
- field cricket — any of several jumping, orthopterous insects of the family Gryllidae, characterized by long antennae and stridulating organs on the forewings of the male, as one of the species commonly found in pastures and meadows (field cricket) or on trees and shrubs (tree cricket)
- field kitchen — the place at which the food for a unit of soldiers in the field is prepared
- fighting cock — a gamecock.
- finback whale — rorqual
- fingerpicking — Present participle of fingerpick.
- fishing smack — any of various fore-and-aft-rigged fishing vessels of rather large size, often containing a well to keep the catch alive.
- floating dock — a submersible, floating structure used as a dry dock, having a floor that is submerged, slipped under a floating vessel, and then raised so as to raise the vessel entirely out of the water.
- floutingstock — a laughing-stock; the object of mockery or flouting
- flying picket — (in industrial disputes) a member of a group of pickets organized to be able to move quickly from place to place
- flying tackle — a tackle made by hurling one's body through the air at the player carrying the ball.
- folk medicine — health practices arising from superstition, cultural traditions, or empirical use of native remedies, especially food substances.