13-letter words containing s, u, c, k, e
- quick-setting — setting quickly, as a cement, paint, or gelatin.
- quickstepping — Present participle of quickstep.
- raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
- reduce a risk — If you reduce a risk, you lessen the potential damage that could be caused by a hazard or danger.
- rescue worker — someone who works to bring people out of danger, attack, harm, etc, esp after a disaster, accident, etc
- resource fork — Macintosh file system
- rock squirrel — a large, gray ground squirrel, Spermophilus variegatus, inhabiting rocky areas of the southwestern U.S.
- sawbuck table — a table that has X -shaped legs.
- sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
- security leak — a leak of information that could endanger public safety
- security risk — a person considered by authorities as likely to commit acts that might threaten the security of a country.
- self-checkout — A self-checkout is a checkout where customers scan, pack and pay for their goods in a store without being served by a sales associate.
- shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
- skunk cabbage — a low, fetid, broad-leaved North American plant, Symplocarpus foetidus, of the arum family, having a brownish-purple and green mottled spathe surrounding a stout spadix, growing in moist ground.
- squash racket — a light long-handled racket used in the game of squash
- squeaky clean — If you say that someone is squeaky clean, you mean that they live a very moral life and have never done anything wrong.
- squeaky-clean — scrupulously clean.
- sucking louse — See under louse (def 1).
- thick-skulled — stupid; dull.
- thunderstruck — overcome with consternation; confounded; astounded: He was thunderstruck by the news of his promotion.
- tinker's cuss — tinker's damn (def 1).
- truchas peaks — group of mountains in N New Mexico, NE of Santa Fe in the S Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
- truck bolster — the upper transverse member of a car truck that holds the truck center plate and receives the car's weight.
- undated stock — stock that has no definitive repayment commitment
- understocking — to provide an insufficient quantity, as of merchandise, supplies, or livestock.
- unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
- up shit creek — excrement; feces.
- volksdeutsche — a member of the German people, especially one of a community having its home outside of Germany, usually in central or eastern Europe.
- wonder-struck — struck or affected with wonder.