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12-letter words containing n, e, k, i

  • risk manager — A risk manager is a person who works in risk management.
  • risk-benefit — involving studies, testing, etc., to establish whether the benefits, as of a course of medical treatment, outweigh the risks involved: to arrive at a risk-benefit ratio.
  • risk-manager — the technique or profession of assessing, minimizing, and preventing accidental loss to a business, as through the use of insurance, safety measures, etc.
  • rock jasmine — any of several alpine plants belonging to the genus Androsace, of the primrose family, having tufted leaves often in basal rosettes, and umbels of pink, red, purple, or white flowers.
  • roman strike — a striking mechanism of c1700, giving the equivalent in tones of Roman numerals, a bell of one pitch striking once for each number I, a bell of another pitch striking once for V, twice for X.
  • rostenkowski — Dan(iel) 1928–2010, U.S. politician: congressman 1959–94.
  • running joke — a joke or humorous allusion used recurrently in a play, film, television skit, etc., for a cumulative comic effect.
  • safe-keeping — the act of keeping safe or the state of being kept safe; protection; care; custody.
  • safecracking — the act of breaking into a safe
  • salk vaccine — a vaccine that contains three types of inactivated poliomyelitis viruses and induces immunity against the disease.
  • sand cricket — Jerusalem cricket.
  • sanity check — (programming)   1. Checking code (or anything else, e.g. a Usenet posting) for completely stupid mistakes. Implies that the check is to make sure the author was sane when it was written; e.g. if a piece of scientific software relied on a particular formula and was giving unexpected results, one might first look at the nesting of parentheses or the coding of the formula, as a "sanity check", before looking at the more complex I/O or data structure manipulation routines, much less the algorithm itself. Compare reality check. 2. A run-time test, either validating input or ensuring that the program hasn't screwed up internally (producing an inconsistent value or state).
  • science park — A science park is an area, usually linked to a university, where there are a lot of private companies, especially ones concerned with high technology.
  • scorekeeping — an official of a sports contest who keeps record of the score.
  • scrimshanker — a shirker
  • section mark — section (def 16).
  • self-cooking — the act of a person or thing that cooks.
  • self-locking — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
  • self-mocking — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
  • self-seeking — the seeking of one's own interest or selfish ends.
  • semidarkness — partial darkness.
  • send packing — to dismiss peremptorily
  • senior clerk — a clerk who is in a senior position and performs office tasks under minimal supervision
  • severodvinsk — a city in the N Russian Federation in Europe, on Dvina Gulf, E of Archangel.
  • sheath knife — a knife carried in a sheath.
  • shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
  • sign a check — When you sign a check , you write your name on it in a special space in order to validate it.
  • silky cornel — a cornel, Cornus amomum, of the eastern U.S., having leaves covered with short, silky hairs on the underside and bearing blue berries.
  • single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
  • single-track — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
  • skeletonizer — any of numerous insect species that reduce leaves to a skeleton
  • skelic index — the ratio of the length of the leg to the length of the torso of a person, multiplied by 100.
  • skillessness — the lack of skill
  • skin disease — condition affecting the skin
  • skip welding — a technique of spacing welds on thin structural members in order to balance and minimize internal stresses due to heat.
  • skirt length — the length of someone's skirt
  • sleepwalking — an act of sleepwalking; somnambulation.
  • slickensided — (of rock) polished by friction
  • smoke signal — If someone such as a politician or businessman sends out smoke signals, they give an indication of their views and intentions. This indication is often not clear and needs to be worked out.
  • smoking area — a designated area in which smoking is permitted
  • snake-bitten — bitten by a snake.
  • snake-hipped — having thin, sinuous hips.
  • sneakishness — the quality or characteristic of being a sneak or sneaky
  • socket joint — a joint in which the rounded end of one part fits into the cavity of another part
  • soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
  • soybean milk — a milk substitute made of soy flour and water, used especially in the making of tofu.
  • specksioneer — a whaler
  • speedskating — a form of ice skating in which contestants race against each other or the clock over various distances
  • spring break — a vacation from school or college during the spring term, lasting about a week.
  • springkeeper — a salamander
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