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9-letter words containing a, l, i, k

  • slapstick — broad comedy characterized by boisterous action, as the throwing of pies in actors' faces, mugging, and obvious farcical situations and jokes.
  • slatelike — resembling slate
  • 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.
  • slovakian — a republic in central Europe: formerly a part of Czechoslovakia; under German protection 1939–45; independent since 1993. 18,931 sq. mi. (49,035 sq. km). Capital: Bratislava.
  • snake oil — any of various liquid concoctions of questionable medical value sold as an all-purpose curative, especially by traveling hucksters.
  • snakelike — any of numerous limbless, scaly, elongate reptiles of the suborder Serpentes, comprising venomous and nonvenomous species inhabiting tropical and temperate areas.
  • snap link — a link with a latchlike opening through which another link or catch can be fitted.
  • soakingly — so as to saturate or soak
  • soil bank — a plan providing cash payments to farmers who cut production of certain surplus crops in favor of soil-enriching ones.
  • souvlakia — a dish similar to shish kebab made with lamb.
  • spadelike — resembling a spade
  • sparkling — to issue in or as if in little sparks, as fire or light: The candlelight sparkled in the crystal.
  • spearlike — resembling a spear
  • special k — an animal anaesthetic, ketamine hydrochloride, sold illegally as a hallucinogenic drug
  • sprekelia — a bulbous plant, Sprekelia formosissima, from Mexico and Guatemala, related to hippeastrum and grown for its striking crimson or white pendent flowers, in the form of a cross: family Amaryllidaceae
  • sri lanka — 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.
  • stagelike — resembling a theatrical stage
  • stairlike — resembling stairs
  • stalklike — the stem or main axis of a plant.
  • stickable — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
  • stickball — a form of baseball played in the streets, on playgrounds, etc., in which a rubber ball and a broomstick or the like are used in place of a baseball and bat.
  • stinkball — stinkpot (def 1).
  • strikable — being cause for a strike, as by union members: strikable labor issues.
  • tail back — When traffic tails back, a long line of it forms along a road, and moves very slowly or not at all, for example because of road works or an accident.
  • tail skid — a runner under the tail of an airplane.
  • tailstock — a movable or sliding support for the dead center of a lathe or grinder.
  • take life — to kill
  • take silk — to become a Queen's (or King's) Counsel
  • talk into — persuade
  • talk time — a prepaid amount of minutes or hours on a mobile phone bill agreement, etc
  • talkative — inclined to talk a great deal: One drink and she became very talkative.
  • talkiness — the quality or condition of being talky; wordiness
  • tangolike — resembling or characteristic of tango music or dance
  • thickleaf — any of various succulent plants of the crassulaceous genus Crassula, having sessile or short-stalked fleshy leaves
  • thinkable — capable of being thought; conceivable.
  • thinkably — in a thinkable or conceivable manner
  • thylakoid — a flattened sac or vesicle lined with a pigmented membrane that is the site of photosynthesis, in plants and algae occurring in interconnected stacks constituting a granum of the chloroplast, and in other photosynthesizing organisms occurring either singly or as part of the cell membrane or other structure.
  • tiktaalik — an extinct species, Tiktaalik rosae, that is believed to be the missing link between water and land animals
  • treblinka — a Nazi concentration camp in Poland, near Warsaw.
  • unlikable — readily or easily liked; pleasing: a likable young man.
  • unmanlike — not appropriate to or worthy of a man
  • unwarlike — not relating to war
  • valkyrian — any of the beautiful maidens attendant upon Odin who bring the souls of slain warriors chosen by Odin or Tyr to Valhalla and there wait upon them.
  • waferlike — Having a shape or texture similar to a wafer.
  • wakefield — a city in West Yorkshire, in N England: battle 1460.
  • walk into — If you walk into an unpleasant situation, you become involved in it without expecting to, especially because you have been careless.
  • wall-like — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
  • waterlike — Resembling water.
  • waulkmill — a cloth-fulling mill
  • weak link — flaw in a process
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