9-letter words containing b, s, k
- skunkbird — a North American songbird with a black-and-white striped back, also known as a bobolink
- skybridge — Also called skywalk. a bridgelike structure for pedestrians built to link one building with another over a public alley or street.
- slab cake — a large square or rectangular-shaped cake
- slat back — a chair back having two or more horizontal slats between upright posts.
- slingback — Also called sling. a woman's shoe with an open back and a strap or sling encircling the heel of the foot to keep the shoe secure.
- smack dab — Smack dab is used in expressions such as 'smack dab in the middle' of somewhere to mean exactly in that place.
- smack-dab — directly; squarely: smack-dab in the middle.
- smokebush — a plant, Cotinus coggygria, with purple leaves and small flowers that turn grey-white before they fall
- snack bar — a lunchroom or restaurant where light meals are sold.
- snakebird — anhinga.
- snakebite — the bite of a snake, especially of one that is venomous.
- snap back — a sudden rebound or recovery.
- snow bank — a long raised mass of fallen snow
- snowblink — a white luminosity on the underside of clouds, caused by the reflection of light from a snow surface.
- soil bank — a plan providing cash payments to farmers who cut production of certain surplus crops in favor of soil-enriching ones.
- speakable — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
- springbok — a gazelle, Antidorcas marsupialis, of southern Africa, noted for its habit of springing into the air when alarmed.
- squeak by — a short, sharp, shrill cry; a sharp, high-pitched sound.
- stab kick — a rapid kick of the ball from one player to another member of his team
- stackable — capable of being stacked, especially easily: stackable chairs.
- steinbeck — John (Ernst) [urnst] /ɜrnst/ (Show IPA), 1902–68, U.S. novelist: Nobel prize 1962.
- step back — retreat, move backwards
- 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.
- stink bug — any of numerous broad, flat bugs of the family Pentatomidae, that emit a disagreeable odor.
- stinkball — stinkpot (def 1).
- stock boy — a boy or man responsible for replenishing stock, as on the shelves of a grocery store.
- stop knob — stop (def 31d).
- storybook — a book that contains a story or stories, especially for children.
- strikable — being cause for a strike, as by union members: strikable labor issues.
- strokable — appearing pleasant to stroke
- stud book — A stud book is a written record of the breeding of a particular horse, especially a racehorse.
- stylebook — a book containing rules of usage in typography, punctuation, etc., employed by printers, editors, and writers.
- sub-stock — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- submarket — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- sun block — a substance that provides a high degree of protection against sunburn, often preventing most tanning as well as burning, as by obstructing the penetration of ultraviolet rays.
- sun-baked — Sun-baked land or earth has been made hard and dry by the sun shining on it.
- superbank — a bank that owns other banks; an overarching banking organization
- superbike — a high-performance motorcycle
- sway-back — an excessive downward curvature of the spinal column in the dorsal region, especially of horses.
- sweepback — the shape of, or the angle formed by, an airplane wing or other airfoil the leading or trailing edge of which slopes backward from the fuselage.
- sweptback — (of the leading edge of an airfoil) forming a markedly obtuse angle with the fuselage.
- swingback — (especially in political affairs) a return or reversion, as to previous opinion, custom, or ideology: We must fight any swingback to isolationism.
- tewksbury — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- the backs — the grounds between the River Cam and certain Cambridge colleges
- tube sock — a casual sock that is not shaped at the heel.
- unbespeak — to annul or cancel a request
- unbespoke — not prearranged
- unbookish — not studious or bookish
- vicksburg — a city in W Mississippi, on the Mississippi River: important Civil War siege and Confederate surrender 1863.