10-letter words containing a, i, r, k, s
- piatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
- prankishly — in a prankish manner, mischievously
- pyatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
- ransacking — to search thoroughly or vigorously through (a house, receptacle, etc.): They ransacked the house for the missing letter.
- raskolniki — a member of any of several sects founded by dissenters from the Russian Orthodox Church who opposed the liturgical reforms of Nikon in the 17th century.
- reichsbank — the former German national bank.
- reichsmark — the monetary unit of Germany from November, 1924, until 1948. Compare Deutsche mark, mark2 (def 1), ostmark.
- rickettsia — any member of the genus Rickettsia, comprising rod-shaped to coccoid microorganisms that resemble bacteria but can be as small as a large virus and reproduce only inside a living cell, parasitic in fleas, ticks, lice, and mites and transmitted by bite to vertebrate hosts, including humans, causing such severe diseases as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
- ring snake — grass snake (def 1).
- run a risk — exposure to the chance of injury or loss; a hazard or dangerous chance: It's not worth the risk.
- sail maker — someone whose occupation is to make and repair sails for boats
- sailorlike — resembling a sailor
- samarskite — a velvet-black mineral, a complex columbate-tantalate of uranium, cerium, etc., occurring in masses: a minor source of uranium, thorium, and rare-earth oxides.
- sanskritic — an Indo-European, Indic language, in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India. Abbreviation: Skt.
- saucerlike — resembling a saucer
- scarf-skin — the outermost layer of the skin; epidermis.
- scrimshank — to avoid one's obligations or share of work; shirk.
- shirtmaker — a person who makes shirts.
- shrinkpack — flexible plastic used for shrink-wrapping goods
- sickle bar — cutter bar (def 1).
- silk paper — paper that contains silk fibers and is sometimes used for printing postage stamps and revenue stamps.
- silverback — an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.
- sinkerball — sinker (def 5).
- skid a rig — If you skid a rig, you slide it from one well hole to another.
- skin graft — skin used for transplanting in skin grafting.
- skinnerian — a psychologist who follows behaviorist theories developed by B. F. Skinner.
- skylarking — a brown-speckled European lark, Alauda arvensis, famed for its melodious song.
- slammerkin — a woman's loose dress
- snarkiness — testy or irritable; short.
- spark coil — a coil of many turns of insulated wire on an iron core, used for producing sparks.
- sparkishly — in a sparkish manner
- sparkliest — tending to sparkle; animated; lively: a row of sparkly cheerleaders.
- speakerine — a female television or radio announcer
- sri lankan — an island republic in the Indian Ocean, S of India: a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 25,332 sq. mi. (65,610 sq. km). Capital: Colombo.
- starkville — a town in E Mississippi.
- steiermark — German name of Styria.
- stravinsky — Igor Fëdorovich [ee-gawr fyaw-duh-roh-vich;; Russian ee-guh r fyaw-duh-ruh-vyich] /ˈi gɔr ˌfyɔ dəˈroʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian ˈi gər ˈfyɔ də rə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1971, U.S. composer, born in Russia.
- strickland — William, 1787–1854, U.S. architect and engineer.
- strike pay — strike benefit.
- taperstick — a candlestick designed to hold tapers.
- track suit — a sweat suit, usually with a long-sleeved jacket and long pants, worn by athletes, especially runners, before and after actual competition or during workouts.
- transkeian — a self-governing Bantu territory of South Africa on the Indian Ocean: granted independence in 1976 by South Africa, but not recognized by any other country as an independent state. 16,910 sq. mi. (43,798 sq. km). Capital: Umtata.
- turkestani — of or relating to the central Asian region of Turkestan or its inhabitants
- ultraslick — extremely smooth or slippery
- water-sick — (of soil) unproductive due to excessive watering or salt residues from irrigation.
- waterskied — Simple past tense and past participle of waterski.
- weizsacker — Carl Friedrich von [kahrl free-drikh fuh n] /kɑrl ˈfri drɪx fən/ (Show IPA), 1912–2007, German physicist and cosmologist.
- windbreaks — Plural form of windbreak.
- wisecracks — Make a wisecrack.
- yardsticks — Plural form of yardstick.