14-letter words containing r, i, s, k, n, e
- steam cracking — Steam cracking is the main method of breaking down large molecules of hydrocarbons, in which a gaseous or liquid hydrocarbon is diluted with steam and then heated.
- sticky fingers — an inclination or tendency to steal or pilfer
- stinking cedar — an evergreen tree, Torreya taxifolia, of the yew family, native to Florida, having rank-smelling foliage and dark-green, egg-shaped fruit.
- stinking roger — any of various plants having an unpleasant odor.
- stock in trade — the requisites for carrying on a business, especially goods kept on hand for sale in a store.
- stock watering — the creation of more new shares in a company than is justified by its assets
- stock-in-trade — items used in performing a job
- stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
- strike benefit — money paid to strikers by a union to enable them to subsist during a strike.
- strikebreaking — action directed at breaking up a strike of workers.
- striking price — in an option contract, the specified price at which a stock, commodity, etc. may be bought or sold; the price at which an investor can exercise profitably a put or call
- summer kitchen — an extra kitchen, usually detached from a house, for use in warm weather.
- take in stride — to walk with long steps, as with vigor, haste, impatience, or arrogance.
- test marketing — to offer (a new product) for sale, usually in a limited area, in order to ascertain and evaluate consumer response.
- the kiwi ferns — the women's international Rugby League football team of New Zealand
- train sickness — nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, resulting from the motion of the train in which one is traveling.
- trick question — sth asked to mislead or incriminate sb
- universal bank — A universal bank is a bank that offers both banking and stockbroking services to its clients.
- vickers number — a numerical expression of the hardness of a metal as determined by a test (Vickers test) in which the sample is indented under a known pressure by the point of a diamond and the surface area of the indentation is divided into the amount of pressure applied.
- walking papers — notice of dismissal
- windsor rocker — a Windsor chair on rockers
- winkle-pickers — shoes or boots with very pointed narrow toes, popular in the mid-20th century
- winning streak — several consecutive wins
- working papers — documents permitting employment
- yekaterinoslav — a former name of Dnepropetrovsk.
- yorkshire bond — flying bond.