9-letter words containing a, r, k, o, s
- saltworks — (often used with a plural verb) a building or plant where salt is made.
- scalework — an ornamentation technique used to depict scales on fish or other creatures
- scrapbook — an album in which pictures, newspaper clippings, etc., may be pasted or mounted.
- scrub oak — any of several oaks, as Quercus ilicifolia and Q. prinoides, characterized by a scrubby manner of growth, usually found in dry, rocky soil.
- shoe rack — shelving unit for storing footwear
- shoemaker — William Lee ("Willie") 1931–2003, U.S. jockey.
- shortcake — a cake made with a relatively large amount of butter or other shortening.
- shotmaker — a sports player delivering good shots
- silk road — ancient trade route extending from China to the Mediterranean
- skid road — an area of cheap barrooms and run-down hotels, frequented by alcoholics and vagrants.
- skimboard — a type of short, rounded surfboard used for riding in shallow water.
- smackeroo — a hard slap or swat: He gave the ball a smackeroo.
- snakeroot — any of various plants whose roots have been regarded as a remedy for snakebites, as the herb Aristolochia serpentaria (Virginia snakeroot) having a medicinal rhizome and rootlets, and the white-flowered Polygala senega (Seneca snakeroot) having a medicinal root.
- snowmaker — a machine that makes artificial snow for ski slopes.
- soda jerk — a person who prepares and serves sodas and ice cream at a soda fountain.
- sokemanry — tenure of land subject to the soke of someone else.
- southwark — a borough of Greater London, England, S of the Thames.
- spadework — preliminary or initial work, such as the gathering of data, on which further activity is to be based.
- spark off — cause, provoke
- sparkover — spark1 (def 2).
- speak for — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
- stackroom — an area in a library where books are not on open shelves
- stairwork — unseen plotting
- stinkaroo — something markedly inferior in quality: a stinkaroo of a motion picture.
- stock car — a standard model of automobile changed in various ways for racing purposes.
- stockyard — an enclosure with pens, sheds, etc., connected with a slaughterhouse, railroad, market, etc., for the temporary housing of cattle, sheep, swine, or horses.
- strapwork — a type of ornamentation imitating pierced and interlaced straps or bands, usually forming a geometric pattern.
- strokable — appearing pleasant to stroke
- swashwork — a type of work done on a lathe, which is inclined at an oblique angle to the axis of rotation of the work
- synkaryon — a nucleus formed by the fusion of two preexisting nuclei.
- tarkovsky — Andrei (ˈɑndrej). 1932–86, Soviet film director, whose films include Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1971), Nostalgia (1983), and The Sacrifice (1986)
- task-work — work assigned or imposed as a task.
- urokinase — an enzyme, present in the blood and urine of mammals, that activates plasminogen and is used medicinally to dissolve blood clots.
- volksraad — the legislative assembly of the Boer republics in South Africa during the latter half of the 19th century
- wakeovers — Plural form of wakeover.
- walkovers — Plural form of walkover.
- woodlarks — Plural form of woodlark.
- workboats — Plural form of workboat.
- workloads — Plural form of workload.
- workmates — Plural form of workmate.
- workspace — space used or required for one's work, as in an office or home.
- wronskian — the determinant of order n associated with a set of n functions, in which the first row consists of the functions, the second row consists of the first derivatives of the functions, the third row consists of their second derivatives, and so on.
- yearbooks — Plural form of yearbook.