10-letter words containing r, i, c, k, e
- kicksorter — a multichannel pulse-height analyser used esp to distinguish between isotopes by sorting their characteristic pulses (kicks)
- kiddie car — a toy vehicle for a small child, having three wheels and pushed with the feet.
- kiloparsec — a unit of distance, equal to 1000 parsecs. Abbreviation: kpc.
- kincardine — a former county in E Scotland.
- knackeries — Plural form of knackery.
- lego brick — a toy plastic brick with studs which can be connected to other plastic bricks and used to construct toy buildings, vehicles, etc
- lifehacker — One who uses lifehacks.
- like crazy — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
- limberneck — a fatal infection of botulism affecting birds, especially chickens and ducks, characterized by weakness of the neck muscles and inability to eat.
- linebacker — a player on defense who takes a position close behind the linemen.
- mail clerk — a person who performs clerical work in a post office
- markiewicz — Constance, Countess, original name Constance Gore-Booth. 1868–1927, Irish nationalist, married to a Polish count. She fought in the Easter Rising (1916) and was sentenced to death but reprieved. The first woman elected to the British parliament (1918), she refused to take her seat
- mesokurtic — (of a frequency distribution or its graphical representation) having the same kurtosis as the normal distribution.
- metrestick — a measuring stick one metre long
- microquake — Microearthquake.
- nectarlike — Resembling or characteristic of nectar.
- nitpickers — Plural form of nitpicker.
- orchidlike — Resembling an orchid or some aspect of one.
- penderecki — Krzysztof [kshish-tawf] /ˈkʃɪʃ tɔf/ (Show IPA), born 1933, Polish composer.
- pernickety — persnickety.
- pickleworm — the larva of a pyralid moth, Diaphania nitidalis, that bores into the stem and fruit of squash, cucumber, and other cucurbitaceous plants.
- picnickers — an excursion or outing in which the participants carry food with them and share a meal in the open air.
- pigsticker — to hunt for wild boar, usually on horseback and using a spear.
- poker dice — (used with a plural verb) dice that, instead of being marked with spots, carry on their faces a picture or symbol representing the six highest playing cards: ace, king, queen, jack, ten, nine.
- potsticker — a pan-fried and steamed Chinese dumpling with a ground meat or vegetable filling.
- prepacking — a package assembled by a manufacturer, distributor, or retailer and containing a specific number of items or a specific assortment of sizes, colors, flavors, etc., of a product.
- quick fire — rapid continuous gunfire, esp at a moving target
- quick-fire — firing or equipped for firing rapidly, especially at moving targets.
- quickwater — the part of a river or other stream having a strong current.
- rain check — 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.
- reblocking — a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more flat or approximately flat faces.
- reichsbank — the former German national bank.
- reichsmark — the monetary unit of Germany from November, 1924, until 1948. Compare Deutsche mark, mark2 (def 1), ostmark.
- retracking — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- rickburner — an arsonist who sets fire to haystacks
- rickettsia — any member of the genus Rickettsia, comprising rod-shaped to coccoid microorganisms that resemble bacteria but can be as small as a large virus and reproduce only inside a living cell, parasitic in fleas, ticks, lice, and mites and transmitted by bite to vertebrate hosts, including humans, causing such severe diseases as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
- riebeckite — an amphibolic mineral, silicate of sodium and iron, occurring usually in feldspathoid rocks.
- rock tripe — any lichen of the genus Umbilicaria.
- rubik cube — a puzzle consisting of a cube with colored faces made of 26 smaller colored blocks attached to a spindle in the center, the object being to rotate the blocks until each face of the cube is a single color.
- saucerlike — resembling a saucer
- schipperke — one of a Belgian breed of small dogs having erect ears and a thick, black coat, originally used as a watchdog on boats in the Netherlands and Belgium.
- shitkicker — an unsophisticated farmer, cowboy, or other rural person; country person.
- sickerness — sureness
- sickle bar — cutter bar (def 1).
- silkscreen — Also called silkscreen process. a printmaking technique in which a mesh cloth is stretched over a heavy wooden frame and the design, painted on the screen by tusche or affixed by stencil, is printed by having a squeegee force color through the pores of the material in areas not blocked out by a glue sizing.
- silverback — an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.
- snickering — to laugh in a half-suppressed, indecorous or disrespectful manner.
- sock-liner — a thin piece of material, as leather, that is laid on top of the insole of a shoe, boot, or other footwear.
- stickering — a person or thing that sticks.
- stockinger — a person who knits on a stocking frame