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

  • pickup camper — camper (def 3).
  • piece of work — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
  • piggyback car — a flatcar designed to accommodate containers or highway truck trailers.
  • playing trick — a card in a hand considered as likely to take a trick, assuming that the player who holds the hand or that player's partner is the declarer.
  • 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
  • prickly poppy — any tropical American poppy of the genus Argemone, especially A. mexicana (Mexican poppy) having prickly pods and leaves and yellow or white, poppylike flowers.
  • 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.
  • road-blocking — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
  • roasting jack — a rotating spit for roasting meat on
  • rock climbing — the sport of climbing sheer rocky surfaces on the sides of mountains, often with the aid of special equipment.
  • rock hounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks, fossils, or minerals.
  • rock painting — a painting done on rock, usually by early people
  • rock squirrel — a large, gray ground squirrel, Spermophilus variegatus, inhabiting rocky areas of the southwestern U.S.
  • rock-fill dam — a dam built mainly of rocks of various sizes fitted compactly together.
  • 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 chair — a chair mounted on rockers or springs so as to permit a person to rock back and forth while sitting.
  • 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.
  • rolling stock — the wheeled vehicles of a railroad, including locomotives, freight cars, and passenger cars.
  • rubbernecking — staring or gaping inquisitively, esp in a naive or foolish manner
  • running track — a piece of ground, usually oval-shaped, that is used for races involving athletes
  • safari jacket — bush jacket.
  • sanction mark — a mark on pieces of 19th-century French furniture signifying that the piece met the quality standards required by the Parisian guild of ebonists
  • schiller park — a town in NE Illinois.
  • scissors jack — a horizontal screw that raises or lowers a hinged, diamond-shaped frame.
  • scissors kick — a propelling motion of the legs in which they move somewhat like the blades of a pair of scissors, used in the sidestroke.
  • 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.
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