14-letter words containing k, i, s, e, r
- neo-lamarckism — Lamarckism as expounded by later biologists who hold especially that some acquired characters of organisms may be inherited by descendants, but that natural selection also is a factor in evolution.
- nizhnevartovsk — a city in W central Russia, an oil and gas center on the Ob River.
- oblique stroke — (character) "/". Common names include: (forward) slash; stroke; ITU-T: slant; oblique stroke. Rare: diagonal; solidus; over; slak; virgule; INTERCAL: slat. Commonly used as the division operator in programming, and to separate the components in Unix pathnames, and hence also in URLs. Also used to delimit regular expressions in several languages.
- options market — a market in which options are traded
- orkney islands — group of islands north of Scotland, constituting an administrative division of Scotland: 377 sq mi (976 sq km); pop. 20,000
- packet sniffer — (networking, tool) A network monitoring tool that captures data packets and decodes them using built-in knowledge of common protocols. Sniffers are used to debug and monitor networking problems.
- palisades park — a borough in NE New Jersey.
- panic-stricken — overcome with, characterized by, or resulting from fear, panic, or the like: panic-stricken parents looking for their child; a panic-stricken phone call.
- parking sensor — A parking sensor is a device on a vehicle which detects obstacles and alerts the driver if the vehicle comes too close to them when being parked.
- passion killer — something that is sexually unattractive or inhibiting
- pembroke pines — a city in SE Florida, near Fort Lauderdale.
- pinking shears — shears that have notched blades, for cutting and simultaneously pinking fabric or for finishing garments with a notched, nonfraying edge.
- printer's mark — a stamp or device, usually found on the copyright page, that identifies a book as the work of a particular printer.
- profit-seeking — attempting to make a profit or financial gains
- quick response — fast reaction time
- quickie strike — a labor strike that has not been called or sanctioned by the officials of the union.
- quicksilvering — the mercury on the back of a mirror
- quicksilverish — resembling quicksilver
- reception desk — the front desk in a hotel where guests can books rooms or ask questions
- recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
- removable disk — removable hard disk
- reservoir rock — rock that has sufficient porosity to contain accumulations of oil or gas.
- ringneck snake — any of several small, nonvenomous North American snakes of the genus Diadophis, usually having a conspicuous yellow or orange ring around the neck.
- roanoke island — an island off the NE coast of North Carolina, S of Albemarle Sound: site of Raleigh's unsuccessful colonizing attempts 1585, 1587.
- roanoke rapids — a city in NE North Carolina.
- rock mechanics — the study of the mechanical behaviour of rocks, esp their strength, elasticity, permeability, porosity, density, and reaction to stress
- rocket science — rocketry.
- roller-skating — the act of moving on roller skates
- sakha republic — an administrative division in E Russia, in NE Siberia on the Arctic Ocean: the coldest inhabited region of the world; it has rich mineral resources. Capital: Yakutsk. Pop: 948 100 (2002). Area: 3 103 200 sq km (1 197 760 sq miles)
- schlockmeister — a person who deals in or sells inferior or worthless goods; junk dealer.
- security check — the process of checking that a person is not armed, or carrying something dangerous
- self-reckoning — count; computation; calculation.
- serial killing — multiple killings or murders carried out by the same person or persons
- serum sickness — a generalized allergic reaction to a foreign serum or drug, characterized by fever, skin rash, enlarged lymph nodes, and painful joints.
- shaker heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- shark-infested — (of a body of water) known to contain large numbers of sharks, and therefore considered to be dangerous
- shield cricket — the interstate cricket competition held for the Sheffield Shield
- shipping clerk — a clerk who attends to the packing, unpacking, receiving, sending out, and recording of shipments.
- shooting brake — station wagon.
- shrink-wrapped — A shrink-wrapped product is sold in a tight covering of thin plastic.
- siberian husky — one of a Siberian breed of medium-size dogs having a thick, soft coat, raised originally as sled dogs.
- sick and tired — afflicted with ill health or disease; ailing.
- sickle feather — one of the paired, elongated, sickle-shaped, middle feathers of the tail of the rooster.
- silky anteater — an arboreal, tropical American anteater, Cyclopes didactylus, about the size of a rat, having a prehensile tail, glossy, golden fur, and two toes on each forelimb.
- single-sticker — a sailboat, esp. a sloop, having only one mast
- skew-symmetric — noting a square matrix that is equal to the negative of its transpose.
- skilled labour — labour or work that demands skill and which you usually have to be trained for, or the workers that provide this labour
- skull practice — a meeting for the purpose of discussion, exchange of ideas, solving problems, etc.
- social drinker — a person who drinks alcoholic beverages usually in the company of others and is in control of his or her drinking.
- social network — a network of friends, colleagues, and other personal contacts: Strong social networks can encourage healthy behaviors.