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9-letter words containing k, i, c

  • quickened — Simple past tense and past participle of quicken.
  • quickener — to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten: She quickened her pace.
  • quickfire — Alternative form of quick-fire.
  • quicklier — (rare, literary, dated) More quickly; with greater rapidity.
  • quicklime — lime1 (def 1).
  • quickness — done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
  • quicksand — a bed of soft or loose sand saturated with water and having considerable depth, yielding under weight and therefore tending to suck down any object resting on its surface.
  • quicksets — Plural form of quickset.
  • quicksort — A sorting algorithm with O(n log n) average time complexity. One element, x of the list to be sorted is chosen and the other elements are split into those elements less than x and those greater than or equal to x. These two lists are then sorted recursively using the same algorithm until there is only one element in each list, at which point the sublists are recursively recombined in order yielding the sorted list. This can be written in Haskell:
  • quickstep — (formerly) a lively step used in marching.
  • quicktime — (graphics, standard, file format, product)   Apple Computer's software for playing audio and video. The QuickTime application is a free media player. QuickTime Pro is a paid-for version with editing ability. QuickTime's native format for audio and video is .mov but it can handle many others.
  • quillback — a carpsucker, Carpiodes cyprinus, inhabiting waters in the central and eastern U.S., having one ray of the dorsal fin greatly elongated.
  • rack rail — (in an inclined-plane or mountain-climbing railway) a rail between the running rails having cogs or teeth with which cogwheels on the locomotive engage.
  • racketing — Slang. an occupation, livelihood, or business. an easy or profitable source of livelihood.
  • rackingly — in a racking manner
  • ragpicker — a person who picks up rags and other waste material from the streets, refuse heaps, etc., for a livelihood.
  • raincheck — a ticket for future use given to spectators at an outdoor event, as a baseball game or concert, that has been postponed or interrupted by rain.
  • rainstick — a musical instrument consisting of a tube filled with sand or pebbles, which is inverted to produce a sound
  • ranchlike — resembling or characteristic of a ranch
  • reckoning — count; computation; calculation.
  • rein back — To rein back something such as spending means to control it strictly.
  • requicken — to restore or come back to life or vigour
  • rice cake — puffed-rice snack food
  • ricketily — in a rickety or shaky manner
  • rickstand — a platform on which to put or make a rick or haystack
  • rickstick — a tool used when making haystacks or ricks
  • ridgeback — Rhodesian ridgeback.
  • ring back — If you ring someone back, you phone them either because they phoned you earlier and you were not there or because you did not finish an earlier telephone conversation.
  • rock hill — a city in N South Carolina.
  • rock hind — a small, orange-spotted grouper, Epinephelus adscensionis, inhabiting warm seas from North Carolina to Brazil, especially in the West Indies, and fished as food.
  • rock milk — a white, powdery surface crust of calcite, formed by efflorescence in limestone caves and fissures.
  • rock-like — Something that is rock-like is very strong or firm, and is unlikely to change.
  • rockiness — the state or condition of a person who is shaky or unsteady, as from drinking, fatigue, or illness.
  • rockingly — in a rocking manner
  • rockslide — a fall of rocks down a hillside
  • rockville — a city in central Maryland.
  • rudbeckia — any composite plant of the genus Rudbeckia, having alternate leaves and showy flower heads.
  • sack suit — a man's suit that has a loose-fitting jacket.
  • sack time — time spent sleeping.
  • sackville — Thomas, 1st Earl of Dorset, 1536–1608, English statesman and poet.
  • salt lick — a place to which animals go to lick naturally occurring salt deposits.
  • scalelike — Zoology. one of the thin, flat, horny plates forming the covering of certain animals, as snakes, lizards, and pangolins. one of the hard, bony or dentinal plates, either flat or denticulate, forming the covering of certain other animals, as fishes.
  • scarfskin — the outermost layer of the skin; epidermis.
  • schematik — A NeXT front-end to MIT Scheme for the NeXT by Chris Kane and Max Hailperin <[email protected]>. Schematik provides syntax-knowledgeable text editing, graphics windows and a user-interface to an underlying MIT Scheme process. It comes with MIT Scheme 7.1.3 ready to install on the NeXT and requires NEXTSTEP. Version: 1.1.5.2.
  • schickard — a large crater in the SW quadrant of the moon, about 227 kilometres (141 miles) in diameter
  • schnittke — Alfred, 1934–1998, Russian composer.
  • schoolkid — a child who attends school
  • screaking — screeching or creaking
  • seed tick — the six-legged nymphal form of a tick, somewhat resembling a seed.
  • semitruck — tractor-trailer.
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