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11-letter words containing s, i, c, k

  • prickly ash — Also called Northern prickly ash, toothache tree. a citrus shrub or small tree, Zanthoxylum americanum, having aromatic leaves and usually prickly branches.
  • puckishness — the state of being puckish
  • pugil stick — a long pole or stick with padded ends used to carry out mock combat.
  • quick grass — the couch grass, Agropyron repens.
  • quick study — someone who is able to learn a new job or adjust to a new social environment in a short time.
  • quicksilver — the metallic element mercury.
  • radio shack — a room or structure, as on a ship, for housing radio equipment.
  • rickettsial — 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.
  • risk factor — a condition, behavior, or other factor that increases risk: Smoking is a major risk factor for cancer; depression as a risk factor in suicide.
  • rock island — a port in NW Illinois, on the Mississippi: government arsenal.
  • rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
  • rollicksome — rollicking; frolicsome.
  • schick test — a diphtheria immunity test in which diphtheria toxoid is injected intracutaneously, nonimmunity being indicated by an inflammation at the injection site.
  • schmierkase — cottage cheese.
  • school milk — (formerly, in Britain) a third of a pint of milk, originally provided free by the local education authority to all young pupils, then later given only to children who passed a needs or means test
  • schrecklich — frightful or horrible
  • scissorlike — like scissors; moving, operating, or crossing in a manner suggesting the blades of scissors.
  • seasickness — nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, resulting from the rocking or swaying motion of a vessel in which one is traveling at sea.
  • secchi disk — an opaque, white or black-and-white disk used to measure the cloudiness or turbidity of ocean water by the point at which it is no longer visible from the surface.
  • septic tank — a tank in which solid organic sewage is decomposed and purified by anaerobic bacteria.
  • shellacking — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
  • sheriffwick — shrievalty.
  • sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
  • shipwrecked — the destruction or loss of a ship, as by sinking.
  • shirtjacket — a jacket styled like a shirt
  • shitkickers — an unsophisticated farmer, cowboy, or other rural person; country person.
  • shock radio — broadcasting by a commercial radio station whose humor includes tasteless jokes, sexual innuendo, and ethnic insults.
  • sick-making — making one feel jealous
  • sickishness — the state of being sickish
  • sickle cell — an abnormal red blood cell having an elongated, crescentlike shape due to the presence of an abnormal hemoglobin.
  • sicknursing — the nursing of the sick
  • sidetracked — any railroad track, other than a siding, auxiliary to the main track.
  • sienkiewicz — Henryk [hen-rik] /ˈhɛn rɪk/ (Show IPA), 1846–1916, Polish novelist: Nobel prize 1905.
  • silk cotton — the silky covering of the seeds of certain tropical trees of the bombax family, used for stuffing cushions, pillows, etc.
  • silk-screen — Silk-screen printing is a method of printing patterns onto cloth by forcing paint or dyes through silk or similar material.
  • simnel cake — any of several kinds of rich fruitcake covered with almond paste.
  • singlestick — a short, heavy stick.
  • singletrack — (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.
  • sir patrick — Norman Bel [bel] /bɛl/ (Show IPA), 1893–1958, U.S. industrial and stage designer and architect.
  • six o'clock — 6 P.M., 1800 hours
  • skeptically — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
  • sketchiness — like a sketch; giving only outlines or essentials. Synonyms: cursory, rough, meager, crude.
  • skillcentre — an institution providing vocational training or retraining for employed or unemployed people
  • skin cancer — melanoma: malignant tumour
  • skin colour — the colour of a person's skin, ie Black, White, etc
  • skin effect — the phenomenon in which an alternating current tends to concentrate in the outer layer of a conductor, caused by the self-induction of the conductor and resulting in increased resistance.
  • skin-search — strip-search.
  • skip tracer — an investigator whose job is to locate missing persons, especially debtors.
  • skyscraping — of or like a skyscraper; very high: a skyscraping chimney.
  • slacklining — the activity of walking across a narrow line of synthetic webbing hung slackly above the ground
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