7-letter words containing n, i, c, k
- hicking — Present participle of hick.
- hocking — the state of being deposited or held as security; pawn: She was forced to put her good jewelry in hock.
- icerink — Alternative spelling of ice rink.
- in hock — If someone is in hock, they are in debt.
- in luck — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
- ink sac — a large gland in most cephalopods, as the cuttlefish, octopus, and squid, that is near the rectum and ejects ink at predators.
- ink-cap — any of several saprotrophic agaricaceous fungi of the genus Coprinus, whose caps disintegrate into a black inky fluid after the spores mature. It includes the shaggy ink-cap (Coprinus comatus), also called lawyer's wig, a distinctive fungus having a white cylindrical cap covered with shaggy white or brownish scales
- jack in — abandon, quit
- jacking — any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.
- jacklin — Tony, full name Anthony Jacklin. born 1944, English golfer: won the British Open Championship (1969) and the US Open Championship (1970)
- jocking — Present participle of jock.
- jonnick — jannock.
- kachina — any of various ancestral spirits deified by the Hopi Indians and impersonated in religious rituals by masked dancers.
- kanchil — A small, agile chevrotain of the genus Tragulus.
- katcina — kachina.
- kenotic — the doctrine that Christ relinquished His divine attributes so as to experience human suffering.
- ketonic — any of a class of organic compounds containing a carbonyl group, CO, attached to two alkyl groups, as CH 3 COCH 3 or CH 3 COC 2 H 5 .
- kick in — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- kick on — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- kicking — A punishment or assault in which the victim is kicked repeatedly.
- kincaid — Jamaica, born 1949, West Indian novelist and short-story writer.
- kinchin — a child.
- kinesic — the study of body movements, gestures, facial expressions, etc., as a means of communication.
- kinetic — pertaining to motion.
- kingcup — any of various common buttercups, as Ranunculus bulbosus, having bright-yellow flowers.
- kinnock — Neil (Gordon). Baron. born 1942, British Labour politician, born in Wales; leader of the Labour Party (1983–92); a European commissioner (1995–2004) and vice-president of the European Commission (1999–2004)
- kitchen — a room or place equipped for cooking.
- kitchin — Obsolete form of kitchen.
- knicker — (used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to knickers.
- koranic — Alternative spelling of Qur'anic.
- kuching — a state in the federation of Malaysia, on NW Borneo: formerly a British crown colony (1946–63) and British protectorate (1888–1946). About 50,000 sq. mi. (129,500 sq. km). Capital: Kuching.
- kutchin — a member of a group of North American Indians who live in the region of the lower Mackenzie River in northwestern Canada and the Yukon and Porcupine rivers of northeastern Alaska.
- lacking — being without; not having; wanting; less: Lacking equipment, the laboratory couldn't undertake the research project.
- licking — a stroke of the tongue over something.
- linpack — 1. A package of linear algebra routines. 2. The kernel benchmark developed from the "LINPACK" package of linear algebra routines. It was written by Jack Dongarra <[email protected]> in Fortran and is commonly used in that language but there is also a C version. Source Code by FTP: single precision Fortran, double precision Fortran, C.
- lock in — 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.
- lock-in — an act or instance of becoming unalterable, unmovable, or rigid.
- locking — Present participle of lock.
- lucking — Present participle of luck.
- macdink — /mak'dink/ To make many incremental and unnecessary cosmetic changes to a program or file. Often the subject of the macdinking would be better off without them. The Macintosh is said to encourage such behaviour. See also fritterware, window shopping.
- macking — a pimp.
- maniack — Obsolete form of maniac.
- minnick — to behave in a fussy way, esp with regards to the foods one chooses to eat
- mocking — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- muck in — If someone mucks in, they join in with an activity or help other people with a job and do not consider themselves to be too important to do it.
- mucking — moist farmyard dung, decaying vegetable matter, etc.; manure.
- nalchik — an autonomous republic in the Russian Federation in N Caucasia, N of the Georgian Republic. 4747 sq. mi. (12,295 sq. km). Capital: Nalchik.
- necking — the part of the body of an animal or human being that connects the head and the trunk.
- necktie — a band of decorative fabric worn around the neck, under the collar, and tied in front to hang down the front of a shirt or to form a small bow.
- niblick — a club with an iron head, the face of which has the greatest slope of all the irons, for hitting the ball with maximum loft.