12-letter words containing s, i, k
- block signal — a fixed railroad signal governing the movements of trains entering and using a given section of track.
- blockbusting — A blockbusting film or book is one that is very successful, usually because it is very exciting.
- bloodsucking — any animal that sucks blood, especially a leech.
- bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
- bolshevikism — the doctrines, methods, or procedure of the Bolsheviks.
- book signing — a prearranged and publicized event at which an author signs copies of their latest book, often with individual dedications to purchasers
- book society — book club.
- bookcrossing — the practice of deliberately leaving books in places where they will be found and read by other people
- bradykinesia — abnormal slowness of physical movement, esp as an effect of Parkinson's disease
- brake assist — a part of a vehicle's braking system that automatically boosts braking pressure in an emergency situation
- brick cheese — a ripened, semisoft American cheese shaped like a brick and containing many small holes
- bright spark — If you say that some bright spark had a particular idea or did something, you mean that their idea or action was clever, or that it seemed clever but was silly in some way.
- brinkmanship — Brinkmanship is a method of behaviour, especially in politics, in which you deliberately get into dangerous situations which could result in disaster but which could also bring success.
- browser skin — a changeable decorative background for a browser
- burkina faso — an inland republic in W Africa: dominated by Mossi kingdoms (10th–19th centuries); French protectorate established in 1896; became an independent republic in 1960; consists mainly of a flat savanna plateau. Official language: French; Mossi and other African languages also widely spoken. Religion: mostly animist, with a large Muslim minority. Currency: franc. Capital: Ouagadougou. Pop: 17 812 961 (2013 est). Area: 273 200 sq km (105 900 sq miles)
- bushwhacking — to make one's way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc.
- businesslike — If you describe someone as businesslike, you mean that they deal with things in an efficient way without wasting time.
- by-a-whisker — whiskers, a beard.
- call in sick — afflicted with ill health or disease; ailing.
- camiknickers — women's knickers attached to a camisole top
- cancer stick — a cigarette.
- candlesticks — Plural form of candlestick.
- casing knife — a knife for trimming wallpaper after it has been attached.
- chain smoker — person: smokes heavily
- chain-smoker — A chain-smoker is a person who chain-smokes.
- chalk stripe — (on a fabric) a pattern of thin white lines on a dark ground.
- chalk-stripe — a stripe, as in the fabric of some suits, that is wider and usually more muted than a pinstripe
- chemokinesis — the random movement of cells, such as leucocytes, stimulated by substances in their environment
- chickasawhay — a river in SE Mississippi, flowing S to the Pascagoula River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
- chicken shit — boring or annoying details or unimportant tasks.
- chicken-shit — boring or annoying details or unimportant tasks.
- chickenheads — Plural form of chickenhead.
- chokeberries — Plural form of chokeberry.
- city slicker — If you refer to someone as a city slicker, you mean that they live and work in a city and are used to city life.
- clickstreams — Plural form of clickstream.
- cockeysville — a town in N Maryland.
- compact disk — an optical disk approximately 4.75 inches (12 cm) in diameter, on which a program, data, music, etc., is digitally encoded for a laser beam to scan, decode, and transmit to a playback system, computer monitor, or television set. Abbreviation: CD.
- cook islands — a group of islands in the SW Pacific, an overseas territory of New Zealand: consists of the Lower Cooks and the Northern Cooks Capital: Avarua, on Rarotonga. Pop: 10 447 (2013 est). Area: 234 sq km (90 sq miles)
- cookie press — a device, operating in a manner similar to that of a syringe, in which dough is inserted in a chamber and extruded, by means of a plunger, through one of a number of interchangeable dies to form a shaped cylinder that is sliced into individual cookies.
- cookie sheet — A cookie sheet is a flat piece of metal on which you bake foods such as cookies in an oven.
- cooking salt — a type of salt used in cooking
- corn whiskey — a whisky made from maize
- cornhuskings — Plural form of cornhusking.
- countersinks — Plural form of countersink.
- country risk — the risk associated with an overseas investment due to the conditions prevailing in the country in which it is made
- cross-linker — a substance or agent, such as radiation, that induces the formation of cross-links.
- cushion pink — a low-growing mountain plant, Silene acaulis, of Europe and North America, having deep pink to purplish, solitary flowers and forming mosslike patches on rocky or barren ground.
- cytokinetics — (biology) The study of cytokinesis.
- damaskeening — Present participle of damaskeen.
- dark tourism — tourism to sites associated with tragedies, disasters, and death