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

  • 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.
  • pack of lies — false account
  • packing case — a box in which goods are packed for transport or storage.
  • packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
  • parish clerk — an official designated to carry out various duties, either for a church parish or a parish council
  • 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
  • picture desk — the department at a magazine or newspaper publisher, that deals with photographs for the paper or magazine
  • pocket-sized — If you describe something as pocket-sized, you approve of it because it is small enough to fit in your pocket.
  • policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • quackishness — The state or condition of being quackish.
  • quick assets — assets readily convertible into cash; liquid current assets
  • quicksilvery — resembling quicksilver
  • quickstepped — Simple past tense and past participle of quickstep.
  • 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.
  • rubik's cube — a puzzle consisting of a cube with colored faces made of 26 smaller colored blocks attached to a spindle in the center, the object being to rotate the blocks until each face of the cube is a single color.
  • 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).
  • scafell pike — a mountain in NW England, in Cumberland: highest peak in England. 3210 feet (978 meters).
  • schappe silk — a yarn or fabric of or similar to spun silk.
  • 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.
  • selfie stick — a rod on which a camera or mobile phone may be mounted in order to take a photograph of oneself
  • send packing — to dismiss peremptorily
  • senior clerk — a clerk who is in a senior position and performs office tasks under minimal supervision
  • septic shock — condition caused by blood poisoning
  • service book — a book containing the forms of worship used in divine services.
  • service mark — a proprietary term, such as Blue Cross and Blue Shield, American Express, or Planned Parenthood, that is registered with the Patent and Trademark Office. Abbreviation: SM.
  • shirt jacket — a shirtlike jacket.
  • 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.
  • sitka spruce — a spruce, Picea sitchensis, of western North America, having long, silvery-white needles, grown as an ornamental.
  • skelic index — the ratio of the length of the leg to the length of the torso of a person, multiplied by 100.
  • skeuomorphic — an ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques, as an imitation metal rivet mark found on handles of prehistoric pottery.
  • skirt chaser — a womanizer.
  • skirt-chaser — a womanizer.
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