13-letter words containing l, i, c, k, e
- lower chinook — an extinct Chinookan language that was spoken by tribes on both banks of the Columbia River estuary.
- mercy killing — euthanasia (def 1).
- milk saucepan — a type of small saucepan often used for heating milk
- milk sickness — a disease of humans, formerly common in some parts of the Middle West, caused by consuming milk from cattle that have been poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakeroot.
- mortise block — a block having a shell cut from a single piece of wood.
- nickel centre — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- nickel silver — German silver.
- nickel-plated — covered with a thin layer of nickel, deposited usually by electrolysis
- nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
- nike hercules — a 40 feet (12 meters) U.S. surface-to-air missile effective at medium to high altitudes and having a range of more than 87 miles (140 km).
- parking place — an reserved area or a space in a street where a car may be parked
- pay-per-click — a system used to set prices for online advertisements on a search engine or other website, by which the advertiser pays a small fee to the website publisher each time a user clicks on the advertisement.
- pick holes in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- pickerel frog — a meadow frog, Rana palustris, common in eastern North America, similar to the leopard frog but with squarish dark spots on the back.
- pocket chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade of medium length.
- porcelainlike — resembling porcelain
- purkinje cell — a large, densely branching neuron in the cerebellar cortex of the brain.
- quick-release — (of part of a device, etc) capable of being detached quickly and easily
- raffle ticket — a ticket sold in a raffle, representing a chance to win a prize
- rankine cycle — the hypothetical cycle of a steam engine in which all heat transfers take place at constant pressure and in which expansion and compression occur adiabatically.
- rankine scale — William John Macquorn [muh-kwawrn] /məˈkwɔrn/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, Scottish engineer and physicist.
- reality check — a corrective confronting of reality, in order to counteract one's expectations, prejudices, or the like.
- rock squirrel — a large, gray ground squirrel, Spermophilus variegatus, inhabiting rocky areas of the southwestern U.S.
- rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
- schiller park — a town in NE Illinois.
- security leak — a leak of information that could endanger public safety
- sickle medick — a small Eurasian leguminous plant, Medicago falcata, having trifoliate leaves, yellow flowers, and sickle-shaped pods
- sickle-hocked — noting or pertaining to a condition of horses in which the hock, due to strained tendons and ligaments, is flexed so that the foot is abnormally bowed far under the body.
- sidewalk café — a café that has seats outside on the sidewalk
- single ticket — a one-way ticket.
- single wicket — a rare form of cricket in which only one wicket is used.
- single-decker — A single-decker or a single-decker bus is a bus with only one deck.
- singlesticker — a vessel, especially a sloop or cutter, having one mast.
- skepticalness — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
- sketchability — the suitability for being sketched
- slippery dick — a wrasse, Halichoeres bivittatus, inhabiting tropical regions of the Atlantic Ocean.
- social market — an economic system in which industry and commerce are run by private enterprise within limits set by the government to ensure equality of opportunity and social and environmental responsibility
- social worker — sb who assists local community
- steering lock — an anti-theft device
- sucking louse — See under louse (def 1).
- swizzle stick — a rod for stirring highballs and cocktails in the glass.
- swizzle-stick — a rod for stirring highballs and cocktails in the glass.
- talking chief — a noble who serves as public spokesperson for the chief in some Polynesian tribes.
- tektosilicate — any silicate in which each tetrahedral group shares all its oxygen atoms with neighboring groups, the ratio of silicon to oxygen being 1 to 2.
- the backfield — the quarterback and running backs in a team
- thick-skulled — stupid; dull.
- ticket holder — a person who has a valid ticket for an event or for a journey on public transport
- trailer truck — a trailer designed to be drawn by a truck tractor or other motor truck.
- triple-decker — three-decker (defs 3, 4).
- unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly