12-letter words containing s, k, i, r
- memory stick — computing: flashcard, dongle
- mesokurtosis — (statistics) The property of having zero normalised kurtosis.
- milk parsley — a wetland plant belonging to the family Apiaceae
- misreckoning — Present participle of misreckon.
- mock-serious — pretending to be serious as a joke, etc
- mockingbirds — Plural form of mockingbird.
- moonstricken — Moonstruck.
- mortise lock — a lock housed within a mortise in a door or the like, so that the lock mechanism is covered on both sides.
- motor skills — coordination, ability to move
- mule skinner — a muleteer.
- muleskinners — Plural form of muleskinner.
- multitaskers — Plural form of multitasker.
- mushroomlike — Having the form or characteristics of a mushroom.
- music locker — Digital Technology. an online service that supports cloud-based storage of digital music files so as to allow users to stream or download their personal music collections for playback on any compatible device: I uploaded all my CDs to a music locker, and now I can access the music from my laptop, tablet, or smartphone.
- neckerchiefs — Plural form of neckerchief.
- nordic skier — a person who practises cross-country racing and ski-jumping
- novorossiysk — a seaport in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Black Sea.
- 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.
- outside work — work done off the premises of a business
- overkindness — the quality of being too kind
- overstocking — to stock to excess: We are overstocked on this item.
- pair skating — a form of competitive skating in which a man and a woman skate together in performing a choreographed series of jumps, lifts, and other acrobatic moves to a selection of music.
- parish clerk — an official designated to carry out various duties, either for a church parish or a parish council
- parkinsonian — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, related to, or resembling Parkinson's disease.
- parkinsonism — Parkinson's disease.
- pecksniffery — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
- pencil skirt — women's garment: straight skirt
- peppershrike — either of two large vireos of the genus Cyclarhis, ranging from Mexico to Chile, and having heavy shrikelike bills.
- 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.
- phrasemaking — the making up or coining of memorable phrases or slogans
- picture desk — the department at a magazine or newspaper publisher, that deals with photographs for the paper or magazine
- piston skirt — The piston skirt is the cylindrical walls of a piston.
- policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- poodle skirt — 1950s-style woman's circular skirt
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- prankishness — the quality or condition of being prankish
- public works — government-funded construction
- quicksilvery — resembling quicksilver
- 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.
- rhythm stick — a small wooden stick used, especially by a child, as a simple percussive instrument in learning the rudiments of musical rhythm.
- 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.
- ribeye steak — a large beefsteak cut from the outer, or eye, side of the ribs.
- rijksdaalder — a cupronickel or silver coin of the Netherlands, equal to 2½ guilders.
- risk capital — venture capital.
- risk manager — A risk manager is a person who works in risk management.
- risk pooling — Risk pooling is the practice of sharing all risks among a group of insurance companies.
- 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.