9-letter words containing n, i, c, k
- pink coat — the coat, usually scarlet, of the hunt uniform worn by the staff and by male members of the hunt.
- pocketing — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
- prickling — a sharp point.
- princekin — a small, young, or minor prince.
- printback — an enlarged print from a microfilm copy.
- quickened — Simple past tense and past participle of quicken.
- quickener — to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten: She quickened her pace.
- quickness — done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
- quicksand — a bed of soft or loose sand saturated with water and having considerable depth, yielding under weight and therefore tending to suck down any object resting on its surface.
- racketing — Slang. an occupation, livelihood, or business. an easy or profitable source of livelihood.
- rackingly — in a racking manner
- raincheck — a ticket for future use given to spectators at an outdoor event, as a baseball game or concert, that has been postponed or interrupted by rain.
- rainstick — a musical instrument consisting of a tube filled with sand or pebbles, which is inverted to produce a sound
- ranchlike — resembling or characteristic of a ranch
- reckoning — count; computation; calculation.
- rein back — To rein back something such as spending means to control it strictly.
- requicken — to restore or come back to life or vigour
- rickstand — a platform on which to put or make a rick or haystack
- ring back — If you ring someone back, you phone them either because they phoned you earlier and you were not there or because you did not finish an earlier telephone conversation.
- rock hind — a small, orange-spotted grouper, Epinephelus adscensionis, inhabiting warm seas from North Carolina to Brazil, especially in the West Indies, and fished as food.
- rockiness — the state or condition of a person who is shaky or unsteady, as from drinking, fatigue, or illness.
- rockingly — in a rocking manner
- scarfskin — the outermost layer of the skin; epidermis.
- schnittke — Alfred, 1934–1998, Russian composer.
- screaking — screeching or creaking
- sick note — proof of illness
- sickening — causing or capable of causing sickness, especially nausea, disgust, or loathing: sickening arrogance.
- sickleman — a person reaping with a sickle
- sicknurse — someone who nurses a sick person
- sketch in — If you sketch in details about something, you tell them to people.
- sketching — a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, especially a preliminary one, giving the essential features without the details.
- skin care — the cleansing, massaging, moisturizing, etc., of the skin, especially the face or hands.
- skinflick — film containing much nudity and sex
- slickener — a tool used for slickening
- slingback — Also called sling. a woman's shoe with an open back and a strap or sling encircling the heel of the foot to keep the shoe secure.
- snickered — to laugh in a half-suppressed, indecorous or disrespectful manner.
- snickerer — someone who snickers
- socked in — to strike or hit hard.
- steinbeck — John (Ernst) [urnst] /ɜrnst/ (Show IPA), 1902–68, U.S. novelist: Nobel prize 1962.
- stick pin — a decorative straight pin with a jeweled or ornamented head and a long shaft with a sheath for encasing the point, used for holding an ascot or necktie in place.
- stickling — the act or practice of making insistent demands
- stockinet — Also, stockinet. a stretchy, machine-knitted fabric used for making undergarments, infants' wear, etc.
- sweelinck — Jan Pieters [yahn pee-tuh rs] /yɑn ˈpi tərs/ (Show IPA), or Jan Pieterszoon [yahn pee-tuh r-sohn] /yɑn ˈpi tərˌsoʊn/ (Show IPA), 1562–1621, Dutch organist and composer.
- swingback — (especially in political affairs) a return or reversion, as to previous opinion, custom, or ideology: We must fight any swingback to isolationism.
- tackiness — not tasteful or fashionable; dowdy.
- technikon — a technical college
- thickener — something that thickens.
- thickness — the state or quality of being thick.
- thickskin — a person lacking sensitivity or delicacy of feeling
- ticketing — a slip, usually of paper or cardboard, serving as evidence that the holder has paid a fare or admission or is entitled to some service, right, or the like: a railroad ticket; a theater ticket.