14-letter words containing u, s, r, i, k
- amount at risk — the difference between the reserve of a life-insurance policy and its face amount.
- bathing trunks — Bathing trunks are shorts that a man wears when he goes swimming.
- be struck with — to be attracted to or impressed by
- black squirrel — a fox squirrel or gray squirrel in that color phase in which the fur is black.
- brunswick stew — a stew originally made with squirrel and onions, and now usually with rabbit or chicken and corn, okra, onions, tomatoes, lima beans, etc.
- builder's knot — clove hitch
- building works — construction projects
- bumper sticker — A bumper sticker is a small piece of paper or plastic with words or pictures on it, designed for sticking onto the back of your car. It usually has a political, religious, or humorous message.
- buttermilk sky — a cloudy sky resembling the mottled or clabbered appearance of buttermilk.
- buyers' strike — an attempt on the part of consumers to lower price levels by boycotting retailers or certain types of goods.
- clustergeeking — (jargon) /kluh'st*r-gee"king/ (CMU) Spending more time at a computer cluster doing CS homework than most people spend breathing.
- countersinking — Present participle of countersink.
- coxsackievirus — any of a group of enteroviruses that cause several diseases, as viral meningitis
- crystal pickup — a piezoelectric vibration pickup or detector, often used on electric phonographs
- dunkirk spirit — fortitude and stoicism in a demanding or dangerous situation
- exclude a risk — If an insurance company excludes a risk, they declare that a particular risk is not covered by an insurance policy.
- field larkspur — a European plant, Consolida regalis, of the buttercup family, having sparse clusters of blue or violet-colored flowers and smooth fruit.
- figure skating — ice skating in which the skater traces intricate patterns on the ice.
- fredericksburg — a city in NE Virginia, on the Rappahannock River: scene of a Confederate victory 1862.
- groundskeeping — The activity of tending an area of land for aesthetic or functional purposes; typically as an employee of a person or institution.
- housing market — property trade
- isthmus of kra — an isthmus of SW Thailand, between the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Thailand: the narrowest part of the Malay Peninsula. Width: about 56 km (35 miles)
- kaieteur falls — a river in central Guyana: (Kaieteur Falls) one of highest waterfalls in the world at 741 feet (226 meters). 100 miles (161 km) long.
- kaieteur-falls — a river in central Guyana: (Kaieteur Falls) one of highest waterfalls in the world at 741 feet (226 meters). 100 miles (161 km) long.
- kaiserslautern — a city in S Rhineland-Palatinate, in SW Germany.
- karitane nurse — a nurse trained in the care of young babies and their mothers according to the principles of the Plunket Society
- karnatak music — the classical music of South India
- make-up artist — sb: applies performers' cosmetics
- mockumentaries — Plural form of mockumentary.
- oblique stroke — (character) "/". Common names include: (forward) slash; stroke; ITU-T: slant; oblique stroke. Rare: diagonal; solidus; over; slak; virgule; INTERCAL: slat. Commonly used as the division operator in programming, and to separate the components in Unix pathnames, and hence also in URLs. Also used to delimit regular expressions in several languages.
- quick response — fast reaction time
- quickie strike — a labor strike that has not been called or sanctioned by the officials of the union.
- quicksilvering — the mercury on the back of a mirror
- quicksilverish — resembling quicksilver
- recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
- ryukyu islands — a chain of 55 islands in the W Pacific, extending almost 650 km (400 miles) from S Japan to N Taiwan: an ancient kingdom, under Chinese rule from the late 14th century, invaded by Japan in the early 17th century, under full Japanese sovereignty from 1879 to 1945, and US control from 1945 to 1972; now part of Japan again. They are subject to frequent typhoons. Chief town: Naha (on Okinawa). Pop: 1 318 220 (2000). Area: 2196 sq km (849 sq miles)
- sakha republic — an administrative division in E Russia, in NE Siberia on the Arctic Ocean: the coldest inhabited region of the world; it has rich mineral resources. Capital: Yakutsk. Pop: 948 100 (2002). Area: 3 103 200 sq km (1 197 760 sq miles)
- security check — the process of checking that a person is not armed, or carrying something dangerous
- serum sickness — a generalized allergic reaction to a foreign serum or drug, characterized by fever, skin rash, enlarged lymph nodes, and painful joints.
- siberian husky — one of a Siberian breed of medium-size dogs having a thick, soft coat, raised originally as sled dogs.
- ski instructor — sb who teaches skiing
- skilled labour — labour or work that demands skill and which you usually have to be trained for, or the workers that provide this labour
- skull practice — a meeting for the purpose of discussion, exchange of ideas, solving problems, etc.
- st. louis park — a city in E Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- strike through — cross out
- summer kitchen — an extra kitchen, usually detached from a house, for use in warm weather.
- surgical shock — a state of shock that can occur during or after surgery
- the silk route — an ancient trade route that linked Asia and the countries of the Mediterranean and was followed by Marco Polo when he travelled to Cathay
- trick question — sth asked to mislead or incriminate sb
- turkish angora — a long-haired breed of cat, similar to the Persian
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