14-letter words containing n, e, c, k, r, i
- shipping clerk — a clerk who attends to the packing, unpacking, receiving, sending out, and recording of shipments.
- sick and tired — afflicted with ill health or disease; ailing.
- single-sticker — a sailboat, esp. a sloop, having only one mast
- 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.
- spring chicken — a young chicken, especially a broiler or fryer.
- steam cracking — Steam cracking is the main method of breaking down large molecules of hydrocarbons, in which a gaseous or liquid hydrocarbon is diluted with steam and then heated.
- sticky fingers — an inclination or tendency to steal or pilfer
- stinking cedar — an evergreen tree, Torreya taxifolia, of the yew family, native to Florida, having rank-smelling foliage and dark-green, egg-shaped fruit.
- stock in trade — the requisites for carrying on a business, especially goods kept on hand for sale in a store.
- stock watering — the creation of more new shares in a company than is justified by its assets
- stock-in-trade — items used in performing a job
- stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
- striking price — in an option contract, the specified price at which a stock, commodity, etc. may be bought or sold; the price at which an investor can exercise profitably a put or call
- summer kitchen — an extra kitchen, usually detached from a house, for use in warm weather.
- ticket counter — the place where you buy a ticket for public transport, the theatre, cinema, etc
- train sickness — nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, resulting from the motion of the train in which one is traveling.
- trick question — sth asked to mislead or incriminate sb
- turn the trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- uncrowned king — a man or woman of high status among a certain group
- vernier rocket — a small, low-thrust rocket engine for correcting the heading and velocity of a long-range ballistic missile.
- vickers number — a numerical expression of the hardness of a metal as determined by a test (Vickers test) in which the sample is indented under a known pressure by the point of a diamond and the surface area of the indentation is divided into the amount of pressure applied.
- windsor rocker — a Windsor chair on rockers
- winkle-pickers — shoes or boots with very pointed narrow toes, popular in the mid-20th century
- wrecking crane — a crane for lifting and removing wrecked rolling stock.