9-letter words containing a, l, s, k
- salt lick — a place to which animals go to lick naturally occurring salt deposits.
- salt pork — pork cured with salt, especially the fat pork taken from the back, sides, and belly.
- saltchuck — the ocean.
- saltworks — (often used with a plural verb) a building or plant where salt is made.
- sand leek — a Eurasian alliaceous plant, Allium scorodoprasum, having reddish-pink flowers, purple bulbils, and a garlic-like bulb
- satyaloka — the highest heaven, where Brahma and Sarasvati live with Brahmins.
- scalelike — Zoology. one of the thin, flat, horny plates forming the covering of certain animals, as snakes, lizards, and pangolins. one of the hard, bony or dentinal plates, either flat or denticulate, forming the covering of certain other animals, as fishes.
- scalework — an ornamentation technique used to depict scales on fish or other creatures
- seakindly — sailing easily in a rough sea.
- self-talk — motivational thoughts, affirmations
- sell-back — an act or instance of selling something previously purchased.
- shakingly — the act of a person or thing that shakes.
- shalelike — having the properties or appearance of shale
- sharklike — any of a group of elongate elasmobranch, mostly marine fishes, certain species of which are large, voracious, and sometimes dangerous to humans.
- shashlick — a dish consisting of kabobs broiled or roasted on a skewer.
- sheaflike — resembling a sheaf
- sheepwalk — a tract of land on which sheep are pastured.
- sheldrake — any of several Old World ducks of the genus Tadorna, certain species of which have highly variegated plumage.
- shellback — an old sailor.
- shellbark — the shagbark tree.
- shoeblack — bootblack.
- sick call — a daily formation for those requiring medical attention.
- sickleman — a person reaping with a sickle
- sicklemia — the usually asymptomatic hereditary condition that occurs when a person inherits from only one parent the abnormal hemoglobin gene characteristic of sickle cell anemia.
- sidewalks — a walk, especially a paved one, at the side of a street or road.
- silk road — ancient trade route extending from China to the Mediterranean
- silkaline — a soft, thin cotton fabric with a smooth finish, for curtains, bedspreads, garment linings, etc.
- silky oak — any of several trees of the Australian genus Grevillea, esp G. robusta, having divided leaves, smooth glossy wood, and showy clusters of orange, red, or white flowers: cultivated in the tropics as shade trees: family Proteaceae
- skaldship — the office of an ancient Scandinavian poet
- skedaddle — to run away hurriedly; flee.
- skeptical — doubtful about a particular thing: My teacher thinks I can get a scholarship, but I'm skeptical.
- skippable — able to be skipped, omitted, or passed over without loss; unimportant.
- 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.
- skylarker — a brown-speckled European lark, Alauda arvensis, famed for its melodious song.
- slab cake — a large square or rectangular-shaped cake
- slack off — not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
- slack-key — a style of Hawaiian popular music played on an acoustic guitar with strings tuned to notes lower than standard guitar tuning for more bass resonance.
- slackener — a person who, or something which, slackens
- slackness — not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
- slakeless — impossible to slake
- slam dunk — basketball: score from above rim
- slam-dunk — Basketball. to dunk (the ball) with great force.
- slapstick — broad comedy characterized by boisterous action, as the throwing of pies in actors' faces, mugging, and obvious farcical situations and jokes.
- slat back — a chair back having two or more horizontal slats between upright posts.
- slatelike — resembling slate
- slavenska — Mia [mee-ah] /ˈmi ɑ/ (Show IPA), (Mia Corak) 1914?–2002, U.S. dancer and choreographer, born in Yugoslavia.
- slavyansk — a city in E central Ukraine, NW of Donetsk.
- sleepwalk — to engage in sleepwalking.
- 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.