9-letter words containing a, k, s, u
- skean-dhu — a small knife tucked into or worn against the top of a stocking in the full dress of Highland Scottish males.
- 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.
- slam dunk — basketball: score from above rim
- slam-dunk — Basketball. to dunk (the ball) with great force.
- soul cake — a round, sweet bun or small, oval cake, traditionally made to celebrate All Souls' Day.
- southwark — a borough of Greater London, England, S of the Thames.
- souvlakia — a dish similar to shish kebab made with lamb.
- sparkplug — to lead, inspire, or animate something or someone.
- speak out — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
- squawking — to utter a loud, harsh cry, as a duck or other fowl when frightened.
- squeak by — a short, sharp, shrill cry; a sharp, high-pitched sound.
- squeakery — a squeaking quality, manner, or action
- stake out — a stick or post pointed at one end for driving into the ground as a boundary mark, part of a fence, support for a plant, etc.
- stake-out — a stick or post pointed at one end for driving into the ground as a boundary mark, part of a fence, support for a plant, etc.
- starquake — a rapid change in the mass distribution or shape of a pulsar, resulting in a fluctuation of the pulsar's pulse rate or radiation intensity.
- steampunk — a subgenre of science fiction and fantasy featuring advanced machines and other technology based on steam power of the 19th century and taking place in a recognizable historical period or a fantasy world.
- submarket — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- suck face — to draw into the mouth by producing a partial vacuum by action of the lips and tongue: to suck lemonade through a straw.
- suka wena — an expression of dismissal or rejection; go away
- sun-baked — Sun-baked land or earth has been made hard and dry by the sun shining on it.
- sungkiang — Older Spelling. Songjiang.
- superbank — a bank that owns other banks; an overarching banking organization
- supertalk — Silicon Beach Software. A superset of HyperTalk used in SuperCard.
- supertask — a paradox resulting from the notion that a task requiring an infinite number of steps could be performed in a finite time by halving the duration of each step.
- surakarta — a city on central Java, in central Indonesia.
- takamatsu — a seaport on NE Shikoku, in SW Japan.
- takatsuki — a city on S Honshu, in Japan: a suburb of Osaka.
- tank suit — a simple one-piece bathing suit for women, having a scoop neck and shoulder straps and usually no lining or inner construction; maillot.
- tokushima — a seaport on NE Shikoku, in SW Japan.
- tracksuit — 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.
- turkestan — a vast region in W and central Asia, E of the Caspian Sea: includes territory in the S central part of Xinjiang province in China (Eastern Turkestan or Chinese Turkestan) a strip of N Afghanistan, and the area (Russian Turkestan) comprising the republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan), Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan), Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
- turkistan — a vast region in W and central Asia, E of the Caspian Sea: includes territory in the S central part of Xinjiang province in China (Eastern Turkestan or Chinese Turkestan) a strip of N Afghanistan, and the area (Russian Turkestan) comprising the republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan), Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan), Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
- ulyanovsk — a city in the W Russian Federation, on the Volga River: birthplace of Lenin.
- unbespeak — to annul or cancel a request
- unmasking — to strip a mask or disguise from.
- unshackle — to free from shackles; unfetter.
- unshaking — the act of a person or thing that shakes.
- unstalked — without a stalk or stalks.
- urokinase — an enzyme, present in the blood and urine of mammals, that activates plasminogen and is used medicinally to dissolve blood clots.
- wakamatsu — a seaport on N Kyushu, in S Japan: formed in 1963 by the merger of five cities (Kokura, Moji, Tobata, Wakamatsu, and Yawata)
- yarmulkes — Plural form of yarmulke.