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18-letter words containing k, i, c

  • to be tickled pink — If you are tickled pink, you are extremely pleased about something.
  • to kick the bucket — If you say that someone has kicked the bucket, you mean that they have died.
  • to lay it on thick — If someone is laying it on thick or is laying it on, they are exaggerating a statement, experience, or emotion in order to try to impress people.
  • to lick into shape — If you lick, knock, or whip someone or something into shape, you use whatever methods are necessary to change or improve them so that they are in the condition that you want them to be in.
  • to pick and choose — If you pick and choose, you carefully choose only things that you really want and reject the others.
  • to take the mickey — If you take the mickey out of someone or something, you make fun of them, usually in an unkind way.
  • toss one's cookies — a small cake made from stiff, sweet dough rolled and sliced or dropped by spoonfuls on a large, flat pan (cookie sheet) and baked.
  • trickle irrigation — drip irrigation.
  • unit-linked policy — a life-assurance policy, the investment benefits of which are directly in proportion to the number of units in a unit trust purchased on the policyholder's behalf
  • up to one's tricks — If you say that someone is up to their tricks or up to their old tricks, you disapprove of them because they are behaving in the dishonest or deceitful way in which they typically behave.
  • vermilion rockfish — a scarlet-red rockfish, Sebastes miniatus, inhabiting waters along the Pacific coast of North America, important as a food fish.
  • vicar of wakefield — a novel (1766) by Goldsmith.
  • war risk insurance — life insurance for members of the armed forces.
  • water stick insect — a slender sticklike flightless water bug, Ranatra linearis, that is predatory on small creatures such as water fleas
  • watson-crick model — a widely accepted model for the three-dimensional structure of DNA, featuring a double-helix configuration for the molecule's two hydrogen-bonded complementary polynucleotide strands.
  • wernicke's aphasia — a type of aphasia caused by a lesion in Wernicke's area of the brain and characterized by grammatical but more or less meaningless speech and an apparent inability to comprehend speech.
  • whittaker chambersRobert, 1802–71, Scottish publisher and editor.
  • wingback formation — single wingback formation.
  • working men's club — A working men's club is a place where working people, especially men, can go to relax, drink alcoholic drinks, and sometimes watch live entertainment.
  • yelloweye rockfish — a red rockfish, Sebastes ruberrimus, of waters along the Pacific coast of North America, having eyes that are yellow and possessed of strong, sawlike bony ridges on the head.
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