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15-letter words containing m, i, c, k

  • nickel-and-dime — of little or no importance; trivial; petty: a nickel-and-dime business that soon folded.
  • platform ticket — a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded.
  • police marksman — a police officer skilled in precision shooting, esp with a sniper rifle
  • pullman kitchen — a kitchenette, often recessed into a wall and concealed by double doors or a screen.
  • raw milk cheese — cheese or a cheese made with unpasteurized milk
  • 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.
  • rocky mountains — mountain range in USA and Canada
  • sand-lime brick — a hard brick composed of silica sand and a lime of high calcium content, molded under high pressure and baked.
  • shrimp cocktail — prawns and lettuce in Mary Rose sauce
  • skimble-scamble — rambling; confused; nonsensical: a skimble-scamble explanation.
  • smoking-concert — a concert where smoking is allowed.
  • 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.
  • stumbling block — an obstacle or hindrance to progress, belief, or understanding.
  • sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
  • take the mickey — mock
  • talking machine — Older Use. a phonograph.
  • tank locomotive — a steam locomotive carrying its own fuel and water without the use of a tender.
  • tidal benchmark — a benchmark used as a reference for tidal observations.
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