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11-letter words containing a, i, r, k, s

  • ringstraked — ring-streaked.
  • risk factor — a condition, behavior, or other factor that increases risk: Smoking is a major risk factor for cancer; depression as a risk factor in suicide.
  • risk-averse — reluctant to take risks; tending to avoid risks as much as possible: risk-averse entrepreneurs.
  • risk-taking — courting danger or loss
  • rock island — a port in NW Illinois, on the Mississippi: government arsenal.
  • safari park — a parklike zoo in which wild animals are allowed to roam free in an environment designed to resemble their natural habitat and are observed by visitors riding through the park in cars or buses; animal park.
  • schmierkase — cottage cheese.
  • shark siren — a siren sounded to warn swimmers of the presence of sharks
  • sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
  • shirtjacket — a jacket styled like a shirt
  • shock radio — broadcasting by a commercial radio station whose humor includes tasteless jokes, sexual innuendo, and ethnic insults.
  • shrink wrap — transparent film for wrapping food
  • shrink-wrap — to wrap and seal (a book, a food product, etc.) in a flexible film of plastic that, when exposed to a heating process, shrinks to the contour of the merchandise.
  • sidetracked — any railroad track, other than a siding, auxiliary to the main track.
  • silk thread — thread that is manufactured from silk
  • silver hake — a common hake, Merluccius bilinearis, occurring off the Atlantic coast of North America and popular as a food fish.
  • singletrack — (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.
  • sir patrick — Norman Bel [bel] /bɛl/ (Show IPA), 1893–1958, U.S. industrial and stage designer and architect.
  • skidbladnir — the huge collapsible ship, made by two dwarfs for Frey, that always had a favoring wind.
  • skin cancer — melanoma: malignant tumour
  • skin-search — strip-search.
  • skip tracer — an investigator whose job is to locate missing persons, especially debtors.
  • skirt steak — a thin cut of beef taken from the plate or, sometimes, from the diaphragm
  • skyscraping — of or like a skyscraper; very high: a skyscraping chimney.
  • smart drink — a nonalcoholic beverage with added amino acids and vitamins claimed to increase energy, improve memory, and boost intelligence.
  • smoking car — smoker (def 2a).
  • snake river — a river flowing from NW Wyoming through S Idaho into the Columbia River in SE Washington: Shoshone Falls. 1038 miles (1670 km) long.
  • social work — organized work directed toward the betterment of social conditions in the community, as by seeking to improve the condition of the poor, to promote the welfare of children, etc.
  • sparklingly — in a sparkling manner
  • speakership — a person who speaks.
  • spirit lake — a lake in SW Washington, at the N foot of Mount St. Helens: site of devastation during 1980 eruptions of Mount St. Helens.
  • spray skirt — a piece of waterproof material that fits around the paddler and opening of a kayak to keep water out of the craft.
  • sterlitamak — a city in the Russian Federation in Europe, W of the Southern Urals.
  • stickleader — a person assigned to check the appearance or condition of each person in a stick
  • strike back — retaliate
  • strip steak — cut of beef: sirloin
  • sucker bait — an enticement calculated to lure a person into a scheme in which he or she may be victimized.
  • svarabhakti — the process of inserting vowel sounds into a consonant cluster, as in a loanword to make it conform to the pattern of the speaker's language and, hence, more easily pronounceable, as in the Italian pronunciation [lahn-tsee-ke-nek-kaw] /ˌlɑn tsi kɛˈnɛk kɔ/ (Show IPA) for German Landsknecht [lahnts-knekht] /ˈlɑntsˌknɛxt/ (Show IPA).
  • take a risk — to proceed in an action without regard to the possibility of danger involved in it
  • take strike — (of a batsman) to prepare to play a ball delivered by the bowler
  • tardis-like — having an interior that is more spacious than could be imagined from looking at the outside
  • thanksgiver — a person who gives thanks.
  • theodorakis — Mikis (ˈmikis). born 1925, Greek composer, who wrote the music for the films Zorba the Greek (1965) and Serpico (1973): imprisoned (1967–70) for his opposition to the Greek military government
  • thread silk — silk yarn produced by a silk throwster.
  • tiger shark — a large shark, Galeocerdo cuvieri, inhabiting warm seas, noted for its voracious habits.
  • tiger snake — either of two highly venomous snakes, Notechis scutatus and N. ater, of Australia and Tasmania, that grow to a length of 5 feet (1.5 meters).
  • track spike — a chisel-pointed spike used to secure the rails of a railroad track to wooden ties.
  • travel-sick — nauseated from riding in a moving vehicle
  • turkish van — a breed of cat with soft white semi-long hair and coloured markings on the head and tail
  • visbreaking — Visbreaking is thermal cracking, when the vacuum residue is less viscous and it can then be used to produce valuable products.
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