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15-letter words containing l, i, c, k, s

  • pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
  • planet-stricken — believed to be adversely affected mentally or physically by the planets
  • play kissy-face — to engage in kissing, caressing, etc., esp. overtly or publicly
  • plunket society — the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children
  • police marksman — a police officer skilled in precision shooting, esp with a sniper rifle
  • public speaking — the act of delivering speeches in public.
  • raw milk cheese — cheese or a cheese made with unpasteurized milk
  • reckless driver — sb who drives dangerously
  • rockrose family — the plant family Cistaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually opposite leaves, solitary or clustered flowers, and capsular fruit, and including the frostweed, pinweed, and rockrose.
  • rusty blackbird — a North American blackbird, Euphagus carolinus, the male of which has plumage that is uniformly bluish-black in the spring and rusty-edged in the fall.
  • sand-lime brick — a hard brick composed of silica sand and a lime of high calcium content, molded under high pressure and baked.
  • schrecklichkeit — frightfulness; horror.
  • shrimp cocktail — prawns and lettuce in Mary Rose sauce
  • skimble-scamble — rambling; confused; nonsensical: a skimble-scamble explanation.
  • slap and tickle — sexual play
  • social bookmark — the practice of saving bookmarked Web pages to a public website as a way to share the links with other Internet users: Social bookmarking is a tool that allows you to add tags and comments to your bookmarks.
  • social drinking — the practice of drinking alcohol occasionally and usually only in social situations
  • social-drinking — a person who drinks alcoholic beverages usually in the company of others and is in control of his or her drinking.
  • spiny cocklebur — a cocklebur, Xanthium spinosum, introduced into North America from Europe.
  • sprinkler dance — a celebratory dance in which participants extend one arm and shake it to imitate the action of a rotating water sprinkler
  • stacking swivel — a metal swivel attached to the stock of a military rifle for use in hooking three rifles together to form a stack.
  • stalactite work — (in Islamic architecture) intricate decorative corbeling in the form of brackets, squinches, and portions of pointed vaults.
  • starting blocks — the rigid blocks adjustable at an angle and mounted on a track against which a runner's shoes are placed to aid in starting
  • stocking filler — A stocking filler is a small present that is suitable for putting in a Christmas stocking.
  • strike it lucky — to have some good luck
  • striking circle — the semicircular area in front of each goal, which an attacking player must have entered before scoring a goal
  • stumbling block — an obstacle or hindrance to progress, belief, or understanding.
  • surgical strike — a military action designed to destroy a particular target without harming other people or damaging other buildings near it
  • to call in sick — If you call in sick, you telephone the place where you work to tell them you will not be coming to work because you are ill.
  • track athletics — sporting activities, such as relay running or sprinting, which take place on a running track
  • travel sickness — nausea caused by motion
  • turk's-cap lily — either of two lilies, Lilum martagon or L. superbum, having nodding flowers with the perianth segments rolled backward.
  • unchristianlike — not like a Christian; not in accordance with Christian teaching and values
  • universal chuck — a chuck, as on a lathe headstock, having three stepped jaws moving simultaneously for precise centering of a workpiece of any of a wide range of sizes.
  • walking catfish — an Asian catfish, Clarias batrachus, that can survive out of water and move overland from one body of water to another: introduced into Florida.
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