11-letter words containing a, l, s, k
- 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.
- squeakingly — in a squeaking manner
- stakeholder — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
- stalin peak — former name of Communism Peak.
- stary oskol — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, SW of Voronezh.
- steelmaking — the manufacture of steel.
- steeplejack — a person who climbs steeples, towers, or the like, to build or repair them.
- sterlitamak — a city in the Russian Federation in Europe, W of the Southern Urals.
- stick float — a float attached at the top and bottom to the line
- stickhandle — (in hockey and lacrosse) to control and skillfully maneuver the ball or puck with the stick.
- stickleader — a person assigned to check the appearance or condition of each person in a stick
- stickleback — any of the small, pugnacious, spiny-backed fishes of the family Gasterosteidae, inhabiting northern fresh waters and sea inlets, the male of which builds and guards the nest.
- stokes' law — the law that the force that retards a sphere moving through a viscous fluid is directly proportional to the velocity of the sphere, the radius of the sphere, and the viscosity of the fluid.
- stroke play — medal play.
- swage block — an iron block containing holes and grooves of various sizes, used for heading bolts and shaping objects not easily worked on an anvil.
- swashbuckle — to work, behave, or perform as a swashbuckler.
- table stake — a stake that a player places on the table at the beginning of a game that may not be changed once the deal begins.
- taking lens — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
- tardis-like — having an interior that is more spacious than could be imagined from looking at the outside
- thread silk — silk yarn produced by a silk throwster.
- trade talks — discussions on the arrangements for international trade
- travel-sick — nauseated from riding in a moving vehicle
- unshakeable — person, faith: firm
- unshockable — not able to be shocked
- unspeakable — not speakable; that may not be spoken.
- unspeakably — not speakable; that may not be spoken.
- visualworks — (language) A modern commercial implementation of the Smalltalk programming language. VisualWorks descends directly from the original Smalltalk-80 by Xerox PARC and was originally developed (for some time under the name Objectworks\Smalltalk) by ParcPlace Systems. VisualWorks relies on dynamic translation as its virtual machine technology.
- vladivostok — a seaport in the SE Russian Federation in Asia, on the Sea of Japan: eastern terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railroad.
- wages clerk — a worker in an office who calculates staff wages
- wake island — an island in the N Pacific, belonging to the U.S.: air base. 3 sq. mi. (8 sq. km).
- wakefulness — unable to sleep; not sleeping; indisposed to sleep: Excitement made the children wakeful.
- walking bus — a group of schoolchildren walking together along an agreed route to and from school, accompanied by adults, with children joining and leaving the group at prearranged points
- wall socket — socket (def 2b).
- warlikeness — the state of being warlike
- welsh black — a breed of black cattle originally from N Wales that are bred for both meat and milk
- whale shark — a tropical shark, Rhincodon typus, ranging in size from 30 to 60 feet (9 to 18 meters), having small teeth and a sievelike structure over its gills for catching plankton.
- whalesucker — a large, blue remora, Remora australis, that attaches itself to whales and dolphins.
- wilkes land — a coastal region of Antarctica, S of Australia.
- willowwacks — a wooded, uninhabited area.
- wolf packs' — a group of submarines operating together in hunting down and attacking enemy convoys.
- workaholics — Plural form of workaholic.
- workaholism — a person who works compulsively at the expense of other pursuits.
- wrest plank — the part of a piano in which the wrest pin is embedded
- yeşil irmak — a river in N Turkey, flowing northwest to the Black Sea. Length: 418 km (260 miles)
- yoshkar-ola — a city in and the capital of the Mari Autonomous Republic, in the Russian Federation in Europe, NW of Kazan.