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14-letter words containing s, i, c, k, e, n

  • packet sniffer — (networking, tool)   A network monitoring tool that captures data packets and decodes them using built-in knowledge of common protocols. Sniffers are used to debug and monitor networking problems.
  • panic-stricken — overcome with, characterized by, or resulting from fear, panic, or the like: panic-stricken parents looking for their child; a panic-stricken phone call.
  • peel-and-stick — ready to be applied after peeling off the backing to expose an adhesive surface: peel-and-stick labels.
  • pick one's way — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
  • pickled onions — onions which have been preserved in vinegar or brine
  • poison hemlock — hemlock (defs 1, 3).
  • quick response — fast reaction time
  • quicksilvering — the mercury on the back of a mirror
  • quiescent tank — a tank, usually for sewage sludge, in which the sludge is allowed to remain for a time so that sedimentation can occur
  • reception desk — the front desk in a hotel where guests can books rooms or ask questions
  • recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
  • ringneck snake — any of several small, nonvenomous North American snakes of the genus Diadophis, usually having a conspicuous yellow or orange ring around the neck.
  • rock mechanics — the study of the mechanical behaviour of rocks, esp their strength, elasticity, permeability, porosity, density, and reaction to stress
  • rocket science — rocketry.
  • schottky noise — shot effect.
  • schumann-heink — Ernestine, 1861–1936, U.S. contralto, born in Bohemia.
  • self-mockingly — in a self-mocking manner
  • self-reckoning — count; computation; calculation.
  • serum sickness — a generalized allergic reaction to a foreign serum or drug, characterized by fever, skin rash, enlarged lymph nodes, and painful joints.
  • shipping clerk — a clerk who attends to the packing, unpacking, receiving, sending out, and recording of shipments.
  • sick and tired — afflicted with ill health or disease; ailing.
  • single-sticker — a sailboat, esp. a sloop, having only one mast
  • smoking jacket — a loose-fitting jacket for men, often of a heavy fabric and trimmed with braid, worn indoors, especially as a lounging jacket.
  • social drinker — a person who drinks alcoholic beverages usually in the company of others and is in control of his or her drinking.
  • social network — a network of friends, colleagues, and other personal contacts: Strong social networks can encourage healthy behaviors.
  • space sickness — a complex of symptoms including nausea, lethargy, headache, and sweating, occurring among astronauts under conditions of weightlessness.
  • speaking clock — a telephone service that gives a precise verbal statement of the correct time
  • speaking voice — a person's normal voice in which they speak
  • spring chicken — a young chicken, especially a broiler or fryer.
  • 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.
  • sticking place — Also called sticking point. the place or point at which something stops and holds firm.
  • 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.
  • stock dividend — a form of dividend collected by a stockholder in extra shares of the corporation's stock rather than in cash.
  • 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
  • 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
  • sucking diesel — doing very well; successful
  • summer kitchen — an extra kitchen, usually detached from a house, for use in warm weather.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • walk-in closet — a closet that is large enough to walk around in.
  • windsor rocker — a Windsor chair on rockers
  • winkle-pickers — shoes or boots with very pointed narrow toes, popular in the mid-20th century
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