10-letter words containing s, i, c, k, r
- intrinsick — Obsolete form of intrinsic.
- jinricksha — Alternative spelling of jinriksha.
- kick-start — to start by means of a kick starter: to kick-start a motorcycle.
- kickboards — Plural form of kickboard.
- kicksorter — a multichannel pulse-height analyser used esp to distinguish between isotopes by sorting their characteristic pulses (kicks)
- kickstarts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of kickstart.
- kiloparsec — a unit of distance, equal to 1000 parsecs. Abbreviation: kpc.
- knackeries — Plural form of knackery.
- lamarckism — the Lamarckian theory that characteristics acquired by habit, use, or disuse may be passed on to future generations through inheritance.
- mesokurtic — (of a frequency distribution or its graphical representation) having the same kurtosis as the normal distribution.
- metrestick — a measuring stick one metre long
- michurinsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Ryazan.
- microskirt — An extremely short skirt, ending just underneath the buttocks.
- nitpickers — Plural form of nitpicker.
- picnickers — an excursion or outing in which the participants carry food with them and share a meal in the open air.
- pigsticker — to hunt for wild boar, usually on horseback and using a spear.
- pitchforks — a large, long-handled fork for manually lifting and pitching hay, stalks of grain, etc.
- potsticker — a pan-fried and steamed Chinese dumpling with a ground meat or vegetable filling.
- prick song — written music.
- prick-post — (in a framed structure) a secondary post, as a queen post.
- pricklings — tingly sensations of discomfort or euphoria
- quikscript — Simulation language derived from SIMSCRIPT, based on 20-GATE.
- ransacking — to search thoroughly or vigorously through (a house, receptacle, etc.): They ransacked the house for the missing letter.
- reichsbank — the former German national bank.
- reichsmark — the monetary unit of Germany from November, 1924, until 1948. Compare Deutsche mark, mark2 (def 1), ostmark.
- rickettsia — any member of the genus Rickettsia, comprising rod-shaped to coccoid microorganisms that resemble bacteria but can be as small as a large virus and reproduce only inside a living cell, parasitic in fleas, ticks, lice, and mites and transmitted by bite to vertebrate hosts, including humans, causing such severe diseases as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
- rock music — heavy form of pop music
- rock-solid — Something that is rock-solid is extremely hard.
- sanskritic — an Indo-European, Indic language, in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India. Abbreviation: Skt.
- saucerlike — resembling a saucer
- scarf-skin — the outermost layer of the skin; epidermis.
- schipperke — one of a Belgian breed of small dogs having erect ears and a thick, black coat, originally used as a watchdog on boats in the Netherlands and Belgium.
- scrimshank — to avoid one's obligations or share of work; shirk.
- shitkicker — an unsophisticated farmer, cowboy, or other rural person; country person.
- shrinkpack — flexible plastic used for shrink-wrapping goods
- sickerness — sureness
- sickle bar — cutter bar (def 1).
- silkscreen — Also called silkscreen process. a printmaking technique in which a mesh cloth is stretched over a heavy wooden frame and the design, painted on the screen by tusche or affixed by stencil, is printed by having a squeegee force color through the pores of the material in areas not blocked out by a glue sizing.
- silverback — an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.
- skin color — tone of complexion
- snickering — to laugh in a half-suppressed, indecorous or disrespectful manner.
- sock-liner — a thin piece of material, as leather, that is laid on top of the insole of a shoe, boot, or other footwear.
- spark coil — a coil of many turns of insulated wire on an iron core, used for producing sparks.
- springbuck — springbok.
- springlock — a lock that fastens automatically by a spring.
- stickering — a person or thing that sticks.
- stitchwork — embroidery or needlework.
- stockinger — a person who knits on a stocking frame
- stockrider — a cowboy.
- strickland — William, 1787–1854, U.S. architect and engineer.