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)