11-letter words containing a, s, k, n, c
- ice-skating — If you go ice-skating, you move about on ice wearing ice-skates. This activity is also a sport.
- isokeraunic — isoceraunic.
- jack salmon — walleye (def 1).
- jackson day — January 8, a holiday commemorating Andrew Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815: a legal holiday in Louisiana.
- kansas city — a city in W Missouri, at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers.
- keratoconus — a degenerative condition characterized by conical protrusion of the cornea and irregular astigmatism.
- kinesiatric — of or relating to kinesiatrics
- knackwursts — Plural form of knackwurst.
- knickknacks — an ornamental trinket or gimcrack; a bit of bric-a-brac.
- knockabouts — Plural form of knockabout.
- knoop scale — a scale of hardness based on the indentation made in the material to be tested by a diamond point.
- krasny luch — a city in SE Ukraine, E of Donetsk.
- landsknecht — a European mercenary foot soldier of the 16th century, armed with a pike or halberd.
- linebackers — Plural form of linebacker.
- mistracking — track system.
- natterjacks — Plural form of natterjack.
- nose tackle — nose guard
- nutcrackers — Plural form of nutcracker.
- nutty slack — coal
- rock island — a port in NW Illinois, on the Mississippi: government arsenal.
- rock salmon — (formerly) any of several coarse fishes when used as food, esp the dogfish or wolffish: now called rockfish or catfish
- saarbrucken — a state in W Germany, in the Saar River valley. 991 sq. mi. (2569 sq. km). Capital: Saarbrücken.
- sand-struck — (of bricks) made with a mold lined with sand to permit freeing.
- sauk centre — a town in central Minnesota: model for town in Sinclair Lewis's novel Main Street.
- schecklaton — a gilded leather used for embroidering jacks
- seasickness — nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, resulting from the rocking or swaying motion of a vessel in which one is traveling at sea.
- seneca lake — a lake in W New York: one of the Finger Lakes. 35 miles (56 km) long.
- septic tank — a tank in which solid organic sewage is decomposed and purified by anaerobic bacteria.
- shacklebone — the wrist
- shcharansky — (Natan) Anatoly [nah-tahn an-uh-toh-lee;; Russian uh-nuh-taw-lyee] /nɑˈtɑn ˌæn əˈtoʊ li;; Russian ʌ nʌˈtɔ lyi/ (Show IPA), born 1948, Soviet mathematician and human-rights activist, in Israel since 1986.
- shellacking — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
- sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
- sick-making — making one feel jealous
- simnel cake — any of several kinds of rich fruitcake covered with almond paste.
- singletrack — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
- skin cancer — melanoma: malignant tumour
- skin-search — strip-search.
- skyscraping — of or like a skyscraper; very high: a skyscraping chimney.
- slacken off — If something slackens off, it becomes slower, less active, or less intense.
- slacklining — the activity of walking across a narrow line of synthetic webbing hung slackly above the ground
- smoking car — smoker (def 2a).
- snack table — a small portable folding table used for an individual serving.
- snake dance — a ceremonial dance, performed by the priests of the American Hopi Indians, in which live snakes are held in the mouth
- snake fence — a fence, zigzag in plan, made of rails resting across one another at an angle.
- snake juice — any strong alcoholic drink, esp when home-made
- snake-dance — to perform a snake dance.
- snapperback — the center on the offensive team.
- spinachlike — resembling or characteristic of spinach
- sponge cake — a light, sweet cake made with a comparatively large proportion of eggs but no shortening.
- stem canker — a disease of plants characterized by cankers on the stems and twigs and caused by any of several fungi.