9-letter words containing a, c, k
- salt lick — a place to which animals go to lick naturally occurring salt deposits.
- saltchuck — the ocean.
- sand jack — any of a number of containers of sand driven beneath a hull about to be launched as a temporary support and then drained of sand so as to let the hull down onto the launching cradle.
- sandcrack — a perpendicular fissure in some part of the wall of an animal's hoof, esp. of a horse, often caused by sandy soil
- sapsucker — any of several American woodpeckers of the genus Sphyrapicus that drill holes in maple, apple, hemlock, etc., drinking the sap and eating the insects that gather there.
- scalelike — Zoology. one of the thin, flat, horny plates forming the covering of certain animals, as snakes, lizards, and pangolins. one of the hard, bony or dentinal plates, either flat or denticulate, forming the covering of certain other animals, as fishes.
- scalework — an ornamentation technique used to depict scales on fish or other creatures
- scarfskin — the outermost layer of the skin; epidermis.
- schematik — A NeXT front-end to MIT Scheme for the NeXT by Chris Kane and Max Hailperin <[email protected]>. Schematik provides syntax-knowledgeable text editing, graphics windows and a user-interface to an underlying MIT Scheme process. It comes with MIT Scheme 7.1.3 ready to install on the NeXT and requires NEXTSTEP. Version: 1.1.5.2.
- schickard — a large crater in the SW quadrant of the moon, about 227 kilometres (141 miles) in diameter
- scrapbook — an album in which pictures, newspaper clippings, etc., may be pasted or mounted.
- screaking — screeching or creaking
- scrub oak — any of several oaks, as Quercus ilicifolia and Q. prinoides, characterized by a scrubby manner of growth, usually found in dry, rocky soil.
- sea stack — a pillarlike mass of rock detached by wave action from a cliff-lined shore and surrounded by water.
- sea wrack — seaweed or a growth of seaweed, especially of the larger kinds cast up on the shore.
- seat back — the part of a chair or seat that you rest your back against
- seed-cake — a sweet cake containing aromatic seeds, usually caraway.
- sell-back — an act or instance of selling something previously purchased.
- shashlick — a dish consisting of kabobs broiled or roasted on a skewer.
- shellback — an old sailor.
- shockwave — (tool) A program from Macromedia for viewing files created with Macromedia Director. Shockwave is freely available as a plug-in for the Netscape Navigator web browser. "Shocked" pages that incorporate documents created in Director can usually only be enjoyed by users with an ISDN or faster connection.
- shoe rack — shelving unit for storing footwear
- shoeblack — bootblack.
- shortcake — a cake made with a relatively large amount of butter or other shortening.
- sick call — a daily formation for those requiring medical attention.
- sickleman — a person reaping with a sickle
- sicklemia — the usually asymptomatic hereditary condition that occurs when a person inherits from only one parent the abnormal hemoglobin gene characteristic of sickle cell anemia.
- sidetrack — any railroad track, other than a siding, auxiliary to the main track.
- skeptical — doubtful about a particular thing: My teacher thinks I can get a scholarship, but I'm skeptical.
- sketchpad — sketchbook (def 1).
- skew arch — an arch, as at the entrance to a tunnel, having sides, or jambs, that are not at right angles with the face.
- skiascope — retinoscope.
- skiascopy — retinoscope.
- skin care — the cleansing, massaging, moisturizing, etc., of the skin, especially the face or hands.
- skull cap — A skull cap is a small close-fitting cap.
- skull-cap — a small, brimless close-fitting cap, often made of silk or velvet, worn on the crown of the head, as for religious functions.
- slab cake — a large square or rectangular-shaped cake
- slack off — not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
- slack-key — a style of Hawaiian popular music played on an acoustic guitar with strings tuned to notes lower than standard guitar tuning for more bass resonance.
- slackener — a person who, or something which, slackens
- slackness — not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
- slapstick — broad comedy characterized by boisterous action, as the throwing of pies in actors' faces, mugging, and obvious farcical situations and jokes.
- slat back — a chair back having two or more horizontal slats between upright posts.
- slingback — Also called sling. a woman's shoe with an open back and a strap or sling encircling the heel of the foot to keep the shoe secure.
- smack dab — Smack dab is used in expressions such as 'smack dab in the middle' of somewhere to mean exactly in that place.
- smack-dab — directly; squarely: smack-dab in the middle.
- smackdown — a severe rebuke or criticism: his amazing smackdown of the protesters.
- smackeroo — a hard slap or swat: He gave the ball a smackeroo.
- smackhead — a person who is addicted to heroin
- smokejack — an apparatus for turning a roasting spit, set in motion by the current of ascending gases in a chimney.