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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
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