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13-letter words containing r, i, c, k, e

  • piece of work — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
  • poker machine — a fruit machine
  • porcelainlike — resembling porcelain
  • pressed brick — face brick molded under pressure to a desired finish.
  • price bracket — a notional range of prices which consumers are prepared to pay for a good
  • prick-teasing — the behaviour of a prick-tease
  • purkinje cell — a large, densely branching neuron in the cerebellar cortex of the brain.
  • quick-release — (of part of a device, etc) capable of being detached quickly and easily
  • quitted trick — a trick the cards of which have been collected by the taker and turned face down, further examination being prohibited.
  • raffle ticket — a ticket sold in a raffle, representing a chance to win a prize
  • raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
  • rankine cycle — the hypothetical cycle of a steam engine in which all heat transfers take place at constant pressure and in which expansion and compression occur adiabatically.
  • rankine scale — William John Macquorn [muh-kwawrn] /məˈkwɔrn/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, Scottish engineer and physicist.
  • reality check — a corrective confronting of reality, in order to counteract one's expectations, prejudices, or the like.
  • recordkeeping — the maintenance of a history of one's activities, as financial dealings, by entering data in ledgers or journals, putting documents in files, etc.
  • reduce a risk — If you reduce a risk, you lessen the potential damage that could be caused by a hazard or danger.
  • return ticket — a ticket for the return portion of a trip.
  • riding jacket — coat worn for horse-riding
  • right bracket — (character)   "]". ASCII character 93. Common names: right square bracket; ITU-T: closing bracket; unbracket. Rare: unsquare; INTERCAL: U turn back. Paired with left bracket.
  • rock squirrel — a large, gray ground squirrel, Spermophilus variegatus, inhabiting rocky areas of the southwestern U.S.
  • rocket engine — a reaction engine that produces a thrust due to an exhaust consisting entirely of material, as oxidizer, fuel, and inert matter, that has been carried with the engine in the vehicle it propels, none of the propellant being derived from the medium through which the vehicle moves.
  • rocking horse — a toy horse, as of wood, mounted on rockers or springs, on which children may ride; hobbyhorse.
  • rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
  • rocking stone — any fairly large rock so situated on its base that slight forces can cause it to move or sway.
  • rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
  • rubbernecking — staring or gaping inquisitively, esp in a naive or foolish manner
  • safari jacket — bush jacket.
  • schiller park — a town in NE Illinois.
  • script kiddie — a child or teenager who gains illegal access to computer systems, often by using hacking programs downloaded from the internet
  • second-strike — noting, pertaining to, or using nuclear forces capable of withstanding attack and retaliating after an adversary has launched a first strike.
  • security leak — a leak of information that could endanger public safety
  • security risk — a person considered by authorities as likely to commit acts that might threaten the security of a country.
  • seiko rc-4000 — A wristwatch with an EIA-232 interface. A clip fitted round the watch and made electrical contact. This clip had a socket for a stereo style jack lead the other end of which was a 25-way D-type connector. The lead allowed you to enter phone numbers etc. into the watch without having to play with tiny buttons. It also meant if the battery on your watch ran out you could restore the data without having to type it all in again. It was around the era of the 8-bit home computers like the Spectrum, BBC Microcomputer, Apple II, C64 - the 1980s.
  • service break — an instance of a player winning a game against a server.
  • single-decker — A single-decker or a single-decker bus is a bus with only one deck.
  • singlesticker — a vessel, especially a sloop or cutter, having one mast.
  • skin reaction — an irritation or inflammation of the skin due to an allergy or infection, brought about by natural means or by a skin test.
  • slippery dick — a wrasse, Halichoeres bivittatus, inhabiting tropical regions of the Atlantic Ocean.
  • social market — an economic system in which industry and commerce are run by private enterprise within limits set by the government to ensure equality of opportunity and social and environmental responsibility
  • social worker — sb who assists local community
  • steering lock — an anti-theft device
  • sticker price — the dealer's full asking price of a new automobile as shown on a sticker attached to it and accompanied by an itemized list of the cost of its basic and optional equipment and other charges.
  • sticker shock — unpleasant surprise on learning of an unexpectedly high price for an item.
  • stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
  • strait-jacket — a garment made of strong material and designed to bind the arms, as of a violently disoriented person.
  • swagger stick — a short, batonlike stick, usually leather-covered, sometimes carried by army officers, soldiers, etc.
  • tarpeian rock — a rock on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, from which criminals and traitors were hurled.
  • tennis racket — long-handled bat used in tennis
  • ticket holder — a person who has a valid ticket for an event or for a journey on public transport
  • tinker's cuss — tinker's damn (def 1).
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