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