9-letter words containing c, l, a, k
- scalework — an ornamentation technique used to depict scales on fish or other creatures
- sell-back — an act or instance of selling something previously purchased.
- shashlick — a dish consisting of kabobs broiled or roasted on a skewer.
- shellback — an old sailor.
- shoeblack — bootblack.
- sick call — a daily formation for those requiring medical attention.
- sickleman — a person reaping with a sickle
- sicklemia — the usually asymptomatic hereditary condition that occurs when a person inherits from only one parent the abnormal hemoglobin gene characteristic of sickle cell anemia.
- skeptical — doubtful about a particular thing: My teacher thinks I can get a scholarship, but I'm skeptical.
- skull cap — A skull cap is a small close-fitting cap.
- skull-cap — a small, brimless close-fitting cap, often made of silk or velvet, worn on the crown of the head, as for religious functions.
- slab cake — a large square or rectangular-shaped cake
- slack off — not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
- slack-key — a style of Hawaiian popular music played on an acoustic guitar with strings tuned to notes lower than standard guitar tuning for more bass resonance.
- slackener — a person who, or something which, slackens
- slackness — not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
- slapstick — broad comedy characterized by boisterous action, as the throwing of pies in actors' faces, mugging, and obvious farcical situations and jokes.
- 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.
- solonchak — a type of intrazonal soil of arid regions with a greyish surface crust: contains large quantities of soluble salts
- soul cake — a round, sweet bun or small, oval cake, traditionally made to celebrate All Souls' Day.
- spacewalk — a task or mission performed by an astronaut outside a spacecraft in space.
- special k — an animal anaesthetic, ketamine hydrochloride, sold illegally as a hallucinogenic drug
- stackable — capable of being stacked, especially easily: stackable chairs.
- stackless — without or not using a stack
- 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.
- tack claw — a small hand tool having a handle with a claw at one end for removing tacks.
- tack-weld — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
- tail back — When traffic tails back, a long line of it forms along a road, and moves very slowly or not at all, for example because of road works or an accident.
- tailstock — a movable or sliding support for the dead center of a lathe or grinder.
- talk back — the act of talking; speech; conversation, especially of a familiar or informal kind.
- talk-back — a communications system enabling those in the studio to hear control-room personnel through a loudspeaker or headphones.
- thickleaf — any of various succulent plants of the crassulaceous genus Crassula, having sessile or short-stalked fleshy leaves
- trackable — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- trackball — a computer input device for controlling the pointer on a display screen by rotating a ball set inside a case.
- trackless — without a track, as a snow-covered meadow.
- truckable — (of a barge, tug, etc) capable or suitable for being conveyed in or on a truck
- truckload — the amount that a truck can carry.
- unshackle — to free from shackles; unfetter.
- van vleck — John H(asbrouck) [haz-broo k] /ˈhæz brʊk/ (Show IPA), 1899–1980, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1977.
- wall rock — the rock forming the walls of a vein.
- warlockry — witchcraft
- whaleback — Nautical. a cargo vessel having a hull with a convex deck. a deck or cover curving upward.
- wloclawek — a city in N central Poland, on the Vistula River.
- wolf pack — a group of submarines operating together in hunting down and attacking enemy convoys.
- woolpacks — Plural form of woolpack.
- woolsacks — Plural form of woolsack.
- workplace — a person's place of employment.
- yale lock — a type of cylinder lock using a flat serrated key