12-letter words containing s, i, c, k, e, n
- misreckoning — Present participle of misreckon.
- moonstricken — Moonstruck.
- neckerchiefs — Plural form of neckerchief.
- nickel steel — steel to which up to 9 percent nickel has been added.
- nickelodeons — Plural form of nickelodeon.
- nordic skier — a person who practises cross-country racing and ski-jumping
- on the stick — alert, efficient, etc.
- orange stick — a slender, rounded stick, originally of orangewood, having tapered ends and used in manicuring, especially to push back the cuticles or clean the fingernails.
- overstocking — to stock to excess: We are overstocked on this item.
- packing case — a box in which goods are packed for transport or storage.
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- pecksniffery — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
- pecksniffian — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
- pencil skirt — women's garment: straight skirt
- quackishness — The state or condition of being quackish.
- racing skate — a tubular ice skate having a long blade extending beyond the heel and toe.
- rock jasmine — any of several alpine plants belonging to the genus Androsace, of the primrose family, having tufted leaves often in basal rosettes, and umbels of pink, red, purple, or white flowers.
- safecracking — the act of breaking into a safe
- salk vaccine — a vaccine that contains three types of inactivated poliomyelitis viruses and induces immunity against the disease.
- sand cricket — Jerusalem cricket.
- sanity check — (programming) 1. Checking code (or anything else, e.g. a Usenet posting) for completely stupid mistakes. Implies that the check is to make sure the author was sane when it was written; e.g. if a piece of scientific software relied on a particular formula and was giving unexpected results, one might first look at the nesting of parentheses or the coding of the formula, as a "sanity check", before looking at the more complex I/O or data structure manipulation routines, much less the algorithm itself. Compare reality check. 2. A run-time test, either validating input or ensuring that the program hasn't screwed up internally (producing an inconsistent value or state).
- science park — A science park is an area, usually linked to a university, where there are a lot of private companies, especially ones concerned with high technology.
- scorekeeping — an official of a sports contest who keeps record of the score.
- scrimshanker — a shirker
- section mark — section (def 16).
- 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-mocking — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- send packing — to dismiss peremptorily
- senior clerk — a clerk who is in a senior position and performs office tasks under minimal supervision
- sign a check — When you sign a check , you write your name on it in a special space in order to validate it.
- 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.
- skelic index — the ratio of the length of the leg to the length of the torso of a person, multiplied by 100.
- slickensided — (of rock) polished by friction
- socket joint — a joint in which the rounded end of one part fits into the cavity of another part
- soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
- specksioneer — a whaler
- stick insect — walking stick (def 2).
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- stiff-necked — having a stiff neck; having torticollis.
- stockingless — not wearing or having stockings
- straightneck — a variety of summer squash related to the crookneck but not having a recurved neck.
- thunderstick — bull-roarer.
- trainer sock — a sock designed to be worn with a training shoe, often cut low at the ankle so that very little shows above the shoe
- trickishness — the quality of being crafty
- trickstering — the practice of playing tricks
- unstockinged — not wearing or covered by stockings
- wisecracking — a smart or facetious remark.