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

  • on the skids — a plank, bar, log, or the like, especially one of a pair, on which something heavy may be slid or rolled along.
  • on the skite — on a drinking spree
  • 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.
  • overkindness — the quality of being too kind
  • overstocking — to stock to excess: We are overstocked on this item.
  • packing case — a box in which goods are packed for transport or storage.
  • packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
  • pale-skinned — having pale skin
  • passion week — the week preceding Easter; Holy Week.
  • pecksniffery — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
  • pecksniffian — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
  • pekinologist — a person who studies the People's Republic of China
  • pencil skirt — women's garment: straight skirt
  • pension book — In Britain, a pension book is a small book which is given to pensioners by the government. Each week, one page can be exchanged for money at a Post Office.
  • persian knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the ends of yarn looped around a warp thread appear at each of the interstices between adjacent threads and produce a compact and relatively even pile effect.
  • photokinesis — movement occurring upon exposure to light.
  • phrasemaking — the making up or coining of memorable phrases or slogans
  • pink-slipped — (of an employee) given notice of redundancy
  • plain-spoken — candid; frank; blunt.
  • prankishness — the quality or condition of being prankish
  • quackishness — The state or condition of being quackish.
  • racing skate — a tubular ice skate having a long blade extending beyond the heel and toe.
  • reading desk — a desk for use in reading, especially by a person standing.
  • rent-seeking — the act or process of using one’s assets and resources to increase one’s share of existing wealth without creating new wealth.
  • ribbon snake — either of two long-tailed garter snakes, Thamnophis proximus or T. sauritus, of eastern and central North America, having a brownish body and yellow or orange stripes.
  • risk manager — A risk manager is a person who works in risk management.
  • risk-benefit — involving studies, testing, etc., to establish whether the benefits, as of a course of medical treatment, outweigh the risks involved: to arrive at a risk-benefit ratio.
  • risk-manager — the technique or profession of assessing, minimizing, and preventing accidental loss to a business, as through the use of insurance, safety measures, etc.
  • 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.
  • roman strike — a striking mechanism of c1700, giving the equivalent in tones of Roman numerals, a bell of one pitch striking once for each number I, a bell of another pitch striking once for V, twice for X.
  • rostenkowski — Dan(iel) 1928–2010, U.S. politician: congressman 1959–94.
  • safe-keeping — the act of keeping safe or the state of being kept safe; protection; care; custody.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • self-seeking — the seeking of one's own interest or selfish ends.
  • semidarkness — partial darkness.
  • send packing — to dismiss peremptorily
  • senior clerk — a clerk who is in a senior position and performs office tasks under minimal supervision
  • severodvinsk — a city in the N Russian Federation in Europe, on Dvina Gulf, E of Archangel.
  • sheath knife — a knife carried in a sheath.
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