9-letter words containing a, s, k, e
- backstage — In a theatre, backstage refers to the areas behind the stage.
- backswept — slanting backwards
- bahookies — Plural form of bahookie.
- bake sale — a sale of homemade, donated baked goods, as by a church or club to raise money.
- bakegoods — baked goods, as bread, cakes, or pies.
- bakehouse — a building or room to bake in; bakery.
- bakeshops — Plural form of bakeshop.
- bakestone — a flat stone placed in or near an oven or fire, for baking cakes on
- baksheesh — money given as a tip, a present, or alms
- balikesir — city in NW Asiatic Turkey: pop. 173,000
- balkanise — to divide (a country, territory, etc.) into small, quarrelsome, ineffectual states.
- balkiness — The state or quality of being balky.
- balklines — Plural form of balkline.
- bankerish — resembling or befitting a banker, especially in being perceived as reserved and conservative in dress and demeanor: a model of bankerish decorum.
- banknotes — Plural form of banknote.
- barklouse — any of numerous insects of the order Psocoptera that live on the bark of trees and other plants.
- basestock — Refined petroleum oil with no additives.
- basinlike — resembling a basin
- basketeer — Someone who makes baskets; a basketmaker.
- basketful — a sufficient quantity to fill a basket; the amount contained in a basket.
- beanstalk — the stem of a bean plant
- bearskins — Plural form of bearskin.
- beastlike — resembling a beast
- beefcakes — Plural form of beefcake.
- beefsteak — Beefsteak is steak.
- berdyansk — a city in S Ukraine, on the Sea of Azov.
- bergamask — person from Bergamo
- betsiboka — a river in central Madagascar, flowing NW to the Mozambique Channel. About 200 miles (320 km) long.
- big skate — See under skate2 .
- black sea — an inland sea between SE Europe and Asia: connected to the Aegean Sea by the Bosporus, the Sea of Marmara, and the Dardanelles, and to the Sea of Azov by the Kerch Strait. Area: about 415 000 sq km (160 000 sq miles)
- blackness — Blackness is the state of being very dark.
- bleakness — bare, desolate, and often windswept: a bleak plain.
- bob skate — an ice skate with two parallel blades
- brakesman — a pithead winch operator
- breakages — things broken, usually accidentally
- breakfast — Breakfast is the first meal of the day. It is usually eaten in the early part of the morning.
- bullsnake — an American burrowing snake
- cake shop — a shop that sells cakes
- cakeholes — Plural form of cakehole.
- cakewalks — Plural form of cakewalk.
- cankerous — having cankers
- carmakers — Plural form of carmaker.
- case-work — the work of investigation, advice, supervision, etc., by social workers or the like, in cases handled by them.
- casebooks — Plural form of casebook.
- casemaker — a machine that produces the stiff covers for hardback books
- cash desk — A cash desk is a place in a large shop where you pay for the things you want to buy.
- chayefsky — Paddy [pad-ee] /ˈpæd i/ (Show IPA), 1923–1981, U.S. playwright and director.
- cherkassy — city & port in central Ukraine, on the Dnepr River: pop. 302,000
- chickpeas — Plural form of chickpea.
- chokeslam — A wrestling move in which someone is picked up by their neck and is driven into the mat.