9-letter words containing a, s, k, i
- ninebarks — Plural form of ninebark.
- paasikivi — Juho Kusti [yoo -haw koo s-ti] /ˈyʊ hɔ ˈkʊs tɪ/ (Show IPA), 1870–1956, Finnish statesman: president 1946–56.
- pakistani — a native or inhabitant of Pakistan.
- palsylike — resembling palsy
- parkinson — a common neurologic disease believed to be caused by deterioration of the brain cells that produce dopamine, occurring primarily after the age of 60, characterized by tremors, especially of the fingers and hands, muscle rigidity, shuffling gait, slow speech, and a masklike facial expression.
- peakiness — peaked2 .
- periaktos — an ancient device used for changing theatre scenery, usually consisting of a revolving triangular prism with different scenes painted on each face; the device was heavily used in the Renaissance
- perovskia — a member of the Perovskia genus of aromatic plant native to central Asia, esp Russian sage, Perovskia atriplicifolia
- phenakism — a form of deceit or craftiness
- pikestaff — the shaft of an infantry pike.
- pipsqueak — a contemptibly small or unimportant person; a twerp.
- piss-take — A piss-take is an act of making fun of someone or something.
- plasticky — made of or resembling plastic
- prisiadka — a step in Slavic folk dancing in which the dancer squats on the haunches and kicks out each foot alternately; the characteristic step of the kazachok.
- psamtik i — king of Egypt 663–609 b.c. (son of Necho I).
- quakerism — the beliefs, principles, and practices of Quakers.
- quicksand — a bed of soft or loose sand saturated with water and having considerable depth, yielding under weight and therefore tending to suck down any object resting on its surface.
- rainstick — a musical instrument consisting of a tube filled with sand or pebbles, which is inverted to produce a sound
- rankshift — (in systemic linguistics) to use a unit as a constituent of another unit of the same or lower rank on the rank scale, as in using the phrase next door within the phrase the boy next door or the clause that you met yesterday within the phrase the girl that you met yesterday.
- raskolnik — a member of any of several sects founded by dissenters from the Russian Orthodox Church who opposed the liturgical reforms of Nikon in the 17th century.
- rib steak — club steak.
- rickstand — a platform on which to put or make a rick or haystack
- risktaker — a person or corporation inclined to take risks: The management trainees were exhorted to become risktakers.
- sabrelike — resembling a sabre
- sack suit — a man's suit that has a loose-fitting jacket.
- sack time — time spent sleeping.
- sackville — Thomas, 1st Earl of Dorset, 1536–1608, English statesman and poet.
- sailmaker — a person who makes or repairs sails.
- sakishima — a group of islands in the S Ryukyu Islands, off Taiwan and belonging to Japan.
- sakyamuni — one of the names of Buddha.
- salt lick — a place to which animals go to lick naturally occurring salt deposits.
- sarkiness — the quality of being sarcastic
- 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.
- scarfskin — the outermost layer of the skin; epidermis.
- schematik — A NeXT front-end to MIT Scheme for the NeXT by Chris Kane and Max Hailperin <[email protected]>. Schematik provides syntax-knowledgeable text editing, graphics windows and a user-interface to an underlying MIT Scheme process. It comes with MIT Scheme 7.1.3 ready to install on the NeXT and requires NEXTSTEP. Version: 1.1.5.2.
- schickard — a large crater in the SW quadrant of the moon, about 227 kilometres (141 miles) in diameter
- screaking — screeching or creaking
- seakindly — sailing easily in a rough sea.
- seminaked — being without clothing or covering; nude: naked children swimming in the lake.
- seraskier — the Turkish military commander-in-chief
- shaikhism — the beliefs and practices of the Shaikhi.
- shakerism — the beliefs and practices of the Shakers.
- shakiness — tending to shake or tremble.
- 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.
- sharkskin — a smooth fabric of acetate or rayon with a dull or chalklike appearance, for apparel.
- shashlick — a dish consisting of kabobs broiled or roasted on a skewer.
- sheaflike — resembling a sheaf
- shekhinah — the presence of God on earth or a symbol or manifestation of His presence.