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12-letter words containing s, e, c, k, l

  • self-cooking — the act of a person or thing that cooks.
  • self-locking — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
  • self-mockery — gentle humour at one's own expense
  • self-mocking — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
  • selfie stick — a rod on which a camera or mobile phone may be mounted in order to take a photograph of oneself
  • senior clerk — a clerk who is in a senior position and performs office tasks under minimal supervision
  • shell jacket — a close-fitting, semiformal jacket, with a short back, worn in the tropics in place of a tuxedo.
  • shellcracker — redear sunfish.
  • shellshocked — suffering from shellshock
  • shelter deck — a weather deck covering a space not considered fully watertight.
  • silky cornel — a cornel, Cornus amomum, of the eastern U.S., having leaves covered with short, silky hairs on the underside and bearing blue berries.
  • single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
  • single-track — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
  • skeleton car — a freight car essentially consisting of a central longitudinal girder fastened to the trucks, sometimes supplemented by one or more pairs of cross cantilevers: used for carrying logs or containers.
  • skelic index — the ratio of the length of the leg to the length of the torso of a person, multiplied by 100.
  • slash pocket — a pocket set into a garment, especially below the waistline, to which easy access is provided by an exterior, vertical or diagonal slit.
  • slickensided — (of rock) polished by friction
  • slipper sock — a sock with a soft leather or vinyl sole sewn onto it, used as indoor footwear.
  • solar cooker — a simple, low-cost device using focused sunshine to cook rice, boil water, etc.
  • solid rocket — any of various rockets using solid fuel
  • speckledness — the characteristic of being speckled
  • spellchecker — a computer program for checking the spelling of words in an electronic document.
  • split ticket — a ballot on which not all votes have been cast for candidates of the same party.
  • stacked heel — a shoe heel constructed from several layers of material.
  • stated clerk — an administrative official in the Presbyterian Church and certain other Protestant churches
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
  • stock saddle — Western saddle.
  • stockholders — Also called stockowner. a holder or owner of stock in a corporation.
  • stockingless — not wearing or having stockings
  • straddleback — astride, on horseback
  • strike lucky — If you strike lucky or strike it lucky, you have some good luck.
  • sultana cake — a cake that contains sultanas
  • swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
  • take counsel — receive advice
  • the bollocks — something excellent
  • the flickers — the cinema
  • well-stacked — (of a woman) having a voluptuous figure.
  • well-stocked — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
  • wesley clark — (person)   One of the designers of the Laboratory Instrument Computer at MIT who subsequently had a quiet hand in many seminal computing events, such as the development of the Internet, the first really good description of the metastability problem in computer logic.
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