8-letter words containing a, l, k
- shashlik — shish kebab.
- shellack — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
- shoptalk — the specialized vocabulary having to do with work or a field of work: I don't understand electronics shoptalk.
- sidewalk — a walk, especially a paved one, at the side of a street or road.
- silk hat — a tall, cylindrical, black hat covered with silk plush, worn by men for formal dress. Compare beaver1 (def 4), opera hat, top hat.
- silk oak — any of several Australian trees of the genus Grevillea, especially G. robusta, having feathery, fernlike leaves and showy orange or yellow flowers, grown as a street tree in Florida and California.
- silktail — the waxwing
- sinkable — to displace part of the volume of a supporting substance or object and become totally or partially submerged or enveloped; fall or descend into or below the surface or to the bottom (often followed by in or into): The battleship sank within two hours. His foot sank in the mud. Her head sinks into the pillows.
- skeletal — of, relating to, or like a skeleton.
- skewbald — (especially of horses) having patches of brown and white.
- skil saw — a portable electric saw
- skiplane — an airplane equipped with skis to enable it to land on and take off from snow.
- skullcap — a small, brimless close-fitting cap, often made of silk or velvet, worn on the crown of the head, as for religious functions.
- slablike — resembling a slab
- slack up — to go more slowly
- slacking — not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
- slapjack — a simple card game.
- slotback — an offensive back who lines up about one yard behind the gap in the line between a tackle and an end stationed a distance outside of the tackle.
- slovakia — 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.
- slowback — a laggard, idler or lazy person
- smokable — suitable for being smoked.
- snakefly — any neuropterous insect of the family Raphidiidae, of western North America, having an elongated prothorax resembling a neck.
- snarkily — in an irritable or snarky manner
- sneakily — like or suggestive of a sneak; furtive; deceitful.
- souvlaki — a dish similar to shish kebab made with lamb.
- sparkily — in a sparky manner
- sparkler — a person or thing that sparkles.
- sparklet — a small spark.
- sparlike — resembling a spar
- sprackle — to clamber or scramble upwards
- stalinsk — former name of Novokuznetsk.
- stalking — an act or course of stalking quarry, prey, or the like: We shot the mountain goat after a five-hour stalk.
- starlike — of the shape of or like a star.
- tackless — a short, sharp-pointed nail, usually with a flat, broad head.
- tackling — equipment, apparatus, or gear, especially for fishing: fishing tackle.
- tailback — the offensive back who lines up farthest behind the line of scrimmage, as in a single wingback or double wingback formation.
- tailskid — a runner under the tail of an airplane.
- take ill — to be annoyed or offended at
- take-all — a disease of wheat, rye, barley and oats, characterized by the blackening and decaying of the base of the stems, caused by a fungus, Ophiobolus graminis.
- talk big — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- talk out — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- talkback — a system of telephone links enabling spoken directions to be given during the production of a programme
- talkfest — a lengthy conversation, discussion, or debate.
- talktime — the amount of time for which a subscriber can use a mobile-phone network
- talukdar — a person in charge of a taluk
- tashlikh — a Jewish rite, performed on the afternoon usually of the first day of Rosh Hashanah, in which the participants symbolically cast off their sins by gathering along the banks of a river, stream, or the like and reciting prayers of repentance.
- taskless — a definite piece of work assigned to, falling to, or expected of a person; duty.
- telemark — a turn in which a skier places one ski far forward of the other and gradually angles the tip of the forward ski inward in the direction to be turned.
- thankful — feeling or expressing gratitude; appreciative.
- ticklace — (in Newfoundland) a kittiwake