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12-letter words containing t, r, i, c, k

  • risk capital — venture capital.
  • rock bunting — a seed-eating songbird, Emberiza cia
  • sand cricket — Jerusalem cricket.
  • scratch disk — 1.   (storage)   See scratch. 2.   (operating system)   Unallocated space on Windows 95's primary hard disk partition, used for virtual memory. Shortage of space on this partition can result in the error "scratch disk full".
  • section mark — section (def 16).
  • shirt jacket — a shirtlike jacket.
  • silk factory — plant where silk fabric is produced
  • single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
  • single-track — (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.
  • sitka spruce — a spruce, Picea sitchensis, of western North America, having long, silvery-white needles, grown as an ornamental.
  • skirt chaser — a womanizer.
  • skirt-chaser — a womanizer.
  • smart cookie — intelligent or sharp-witted person
  • solid rocket — any of various rockets using solid fuel
  • stick around — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
  • stick figure — a diagrammatic drawing representing a human or animal, usually made with one line each for the torso and appendages, and often a circle for the head.
  • stick up for — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
  • stock ticker — ticker (def 1).
  • stockbroking — business of buying and selling stock
  • straightneck — a variety of summer squash related to the crookneck but not having a recurved neck.
  • straitjacket — a garment made of strong material and designed to bind the arms, as of a violently disoriented person.
  • strike force — a military force armed and trained for attack.
  • strike lucky — If you strike lucky or strike it lucky, you have some good luck.
  • strike price — The strike price is the price of an option when it is exercised.
  • test cricket — a form of cricket that takes the longest amount of time to play
  • the flickers — the cinema
  • thunderstick — bull-roarer.
  • tick trefoil — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Desmodium, of the legume family, having trifoliolate leaves and jointed pods with hooked hairs by which they adhere to objects.
  • tickler coil — the coil by which the plate circuit of a vacuum tube is inductively coupled with the grid circuit in the process of regeneration.
  • tickler file — a file consisting of memoranda, notices, electronic signals, or the like that serves to remind the user of matters that must be attended to.
  • tip-up truck — a truck or lorry the rear platform of which can be raised at the front end to enable the load to be discharged by gravity
  • tipper truck — a truck or lorry the rear platform of which can be raised at the front end to enable the load to be discharged by gravity
  • track racing — a form of motorcycle racing where teams or individuals race opponents around an oval track
  • trackability — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
  • trainer sock — a sock designed to be worn with a training shoe, often cut low at the ankle so that very little shows above the shoe
  • tree cricket — any of several jumping, orthopterous insects of the family Gryllidae, characterized by long antennae and stridulating organs on the forewings of the male, as one of the species commonly found in pastures and meadows (field cricket) or on trees and shrubs (tree cricket)
  • trench knife — a short knife for stabbing, sometimes equipped with brass knuckles as a guard, used in modern warfare in hand-to-hand combat.
  • trial docket — docket (def 1).
  • trial-docket — Also called trial docket. a list of cases in court for trial, or the names of the parties who have cases pending.
  • trick ending — an ending of a story or play, etc., that employs a surprise element or character to resolve the plot.
  • trick riding — the performance of tricks on horseback
  • trickishness — the quality of being crafty
  • trickle-down — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
  • trickstering — the practice of playing tricks
  • truck driver — sb employed to drive a lorry
  • truck racing — a motor sport in which powerful trucks, without their containers, are raced around a circuit
  • turn a trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
  • west warwick — a town in E Rhode Island, near Providence.
  • wicketkeeper — the player on the fielding side who stands immediately behind the wicket to stop balls that pass it.
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