12-letter words containing n, i, c, k, s
- racing skate — a tubular ice skate having a long blade extending beyond the heel and toe.
- rock cornish — a small hybrid chicken produced by mating Cornish and White Rock chickens and marketed especially as a roaster.
- 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.
- rock springs — a city in SW Wyoming.
- 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.
- salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
- 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.
- scrapbooking — hobby: collaging
- 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a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.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.
- send packing — to dismiss peremptorily
- senior clerk — a clerk who is in a senior position and performs office tasks under minimal supervision
- 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.
- sitting duck — a helpless or easy target or victim: a sitting duck for shady financial schemes.
- skelic index — the ratio of the length of the leg to the length of the torso of a person, multiplied by 100.
- slickensided — (of rock) polished by friction
- 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.
- specksioneer — a whaler
- spinal block — spinal anesthesia.
- stick around — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stick insect — walking stick (def 2).
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- stiff-necked — having a stiff neck; having torticollis.
- stock option — an option giving the holder, usually an officer or employee, the right to buy stock of the issuing corporation at a specific price within a stated period.
- stockbroking — business of buying and selling stock
- stocking cap — a long, conical, knitted cap, usually with a tassel or pompon at the tip.
- stockingless — not wearing or having stockings
- stockpunisht — punished by being put in stocks
- straightneck — a variety of summer squash related to the crookneck but not having a recurved neck.
- suckling pig — piglet not yet weaned
- thunderstick — bull-roarer.
- trainer sock — a sock designed to be worn with a training shoe, often cut low at the ankle so that very little shows above the shoe
- trickishness — the quality of being crafty
- trickstering — the practice of playing tricks
- unstockinged — not wearing or covered by stockings
- wackyparsing — (Internet, slang) present participle of wackyparse.
- walkingstick — a stick used for walking
- wind-sucking — cribbing (def 1).
- wisecracking — a smart or facetious remark.