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9-letter words containing a, s, k, i

  • squawking — to utter a loud, harsh cry, as a duck or other fowl when frightened.
  • sri lanka — an island republic in the Indian Ocean, S of India: a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 25,332 sq. mi. (65,610 sq. km). Capital: Colombo.
  • stab kick — a rapid kick of the ball from one player to another member of his team
  • stagelike — resembling a theatrical stage
  • stairlike — resembling stairs
  • stairwork — unseen plotting
  • stalklike — the stem or main axis of a plant.
  • stickable — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
  • stickball — a form of baseball played in the streets, on playgrounds, etc., in which a rubber ball and a broomstick or the like are used in place of a baseball and bat.
  • stinkaroo — something markedly inferior in quality: a stinkaroo of a motion picture.
  • stinkball — stinkpot (def 1).
  • streaking — a long, narrow mark, smear, band of color, or the like: streaks of mud.
  • strikable — being cause for a strike, as by union members: strikable labor issues.
  • sungkiang — Older Spelling. Songjiang.
  • swim mask — mask (def 3).
  • swingback — (especially in political affairs) a return or reversion, as to previous opinion, custom, or ideology: We must fight any swingback to isolationism.
  • tackiness — not tasteful or fashionable; dowdy.
  • tail skid — a runner under the tail of an airplane.
  • tailstock — a movable or sliding support for the dead center of a lathe or grinder.
  • takatsuki — a city on S Honshu, in Japan: a suburb of Osaka.
  • take silk — to become a Queen's (or King's) Counsel
  • talkiness — the quality or condition of being talky; wordiness
  • tank suit — a simple one-piece bathing suit for women, having a scoop neck and shoulder straps and usually no lining or inner construction; maillot.
  • thankings — expressions of gratitude or acts of thanking
  • tokushima — a seaport on NE Shikoku, in SW Japan.
  • trackside — located next to a railroad track.
  • tracksuit — a sweat suit, usually with a long-sleeved jacket and long pants, worn by athletes, especially runners, before and after actual competition or during workouts.
  • trainsick — ill with train sickness.
  • tsakonian — a modern Greek dialect spoken on the east coast of the Peloponnesus, descended from the Laconian dialect of ancient Sparta.
  • tsinkiang — Older Spelling. former name of Quanzhou.
  • turkistan — a vast region in W and central Asia, E of the Caspian Sea: includes territory in the S central part of Xinjiang province in China (Eastern Turkestan or Chinese Turkestan) a strip of N Afghanistan, and the area (Russian Turkestan) comprising the republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan), Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan), Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
  • unmasking — to strip a mask or disguise from.
  • unshaking — the act of a person or thing that shakes.
  • urokinase — an enzyme, present in the blood and urine of mammals, that activates plasminogen and is used medicinally to dissolve blood clots.
  • wackiness — odd or irrational; crazy: They had some wacky plan for selling more books.
  • water-ski — to plane over water on water skis or a water ski by grasping a towing rope pulled by a speedboat.
  • waterskin — The skin of a goat used as a container for water.
  • weak side — the side of the offensive line opposite the side with the tight end, thereby the side having the smaller number of players.
  • weakliest — Superlative form of weakly.
  • weaklings — Plural form of weakling.
  • whipsnake — any of several long, slender New World snakes of the genus Masticophis, the tail of which resembles a whip.
  • wigmakers — Plural form of wigmaker.
  • windshake — a crack between the annual rings in wood: caused by strong winds bending the tree trunk
  • wine cask — a strong wooden barrel used to hold wine
  • wingbacks — Plural form of wingback.
  • wisecrack — a smart or facetious remark.
  • 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.
  • yankeeism — Yankee character or characteristics.
  • yardstick — a stick a yard long, commonly marked with subdivisions, used for measuring.
  • zákinthos — one of the southernmost islands of the Ionian Islands, Greece: 155 sq mi (401 sq km)
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