13-letter words containing ice
- public office — position in government
- quindicessima — (music) Two octaves higher. Marking indicates a passage to be transposed up two octaves. Abbreviation: 15ma.
- reserve price — floor price.
- rice crispies — puffed grains of rice, eaten esp as a breakfast cereal
- rough justice — If you describe someone's treatment or punishment as rough justice, you mean that it is not given according to the law.
- sacrifice fly — a fly ball when there are fewer than two players out that enables a base runner, usually at third base, to score after the ball is caught.
- safety device — A safety device is a piece of equipment such as a fire extinguisher, safety belt, or burglar alarm that reduces loss or damage from a fire, accident, or break-in.
- saint maurice — a river in S Quebec, Canada, flowing S and SE to the St. Lawrence River at Three Rivers: lower course in valley called La Mauricie. 325 miles (523 km) long.
- school choice — an educational policy based on vouchers or scholarships, allowing students their choice of private or public school.
- secret police — a police force that functions as the enforcement arm of a government's political policies and whose activities, which often include surveillance, intimidation, and physical violence as a means of suppressing dissent, are usually concealed from the public.
- selling price — cost at which sth is put up for sale
- service break — an instance of a player winning a game against a server.
- service clasp — clasp (def 4).
- service court — the part of the court into which a player must serve in various games, as tennis, badminton, handball, or squash.
- service dress — a khaki army uniform more formal than khakis but less formal than full army dress
- service rifle — a rifle that is issued as standard to soldiers of an army or armed force
- serviceperson — a person who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
- singing voice — the musical quality of a voice when a person is singing
- slice of life — accurate depiction of reality
- slice-of-life — of, relating to, or being a naturalistic, unembellished representation of real life: a play with slice-of-life dialogue.
- space lattice — lattice (def 4).
- spice islands — the Moluccas
- square splice — a scarf joint between two pieces, having the form of a half-lap joint with a thicker and a thinner section for each piece, the thicker one being at the end: used to resist tension.
- staff officer — a commissioned officer who is a member of a staff.
- sticker price — the dealer's full asking price of a new automobile as shown on a sticker attached to it and accompanied by an itemized list of the cost of its basic and optional equipment and other charges.
- support price — the price at which the government will purchase commodities, especially farm produce, in order to maintain a certain price level.
- table licence — a licence authorizing the sale of alcoholic drinks with meals only
- tariff office — a company whose premiums are based on a tariff agreed with other insurance companies
- ticket office — an office or booth at which tickets are sold, as for a play, a film, or travel accommodations.
- timing device — a device that can be set to detonate a bomb at a particular time
- train service — provision of railway transport
- tricentennial — pertaining to 300 years or a period of 300 years.
- trigger price — if a commodity reaches a trigger price, its price, or the conditions governing its sale are changed; a price at which certain consequences ensue
- under licence — If someone does something under licence, they do it by special permission from a government or other authority.
- underniceness — a lack of niceness
- unserviceable — not suitable to be used
- valet service — a cleaning service, in which your clothes are collected for cleaning, from your house or hotel, and returned to you
- vice-chairman — a member of a committee, board, group, etc., designated as immediately subordinate to a chairman and serving as such in the latter's absence; a person who acts for and assists a chairman.
- vicente lopez — a city in E central Argentina, N of Buenos Aires.
- villavicencio — a city in central Colombia.
- voice over ip — (communications) (VoIP) Any technology providing voice telephony services over IP, including CODECs, streaming protocols and session control. The major advantage of VoIP is lower cost, by avoiding dedicated voice circuits. Currently VoIP is being deployed on internal corporate networks, and, via the Internet, for low cost (and low quality) international calls. It is also used for telephony applications such as voice and fax mail. The ITU standard is H.323, which is a whole suite of protocols, while the IETF has developed the much simpler SIP to solve the session control problem and MGCP/Megaco to solve the gateway problem.
- wanted notice — a public announcement by the police that they want to question someone in connection with a crime that has been committed
- wild allspice — spicebush (sense 1)
- world service — a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which transmits programmes in many languages around the world