11-letter words containing e, s, k, a
- nonspeaking — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
- nose tackle — nose guard
- nosy parker — a prying person
- nurse shark — any of several sharks of the family Orectolobidae, especially Ginglymostoma cirratum, occurring in shallow waters from Rhode Island to Brazil and the Gulf of California to Ecuador.
- nutcrackers — Plural form of nutcracker.
- other ranks — (in the armed forces) all those who do not hold a commissioned rank
- outer banks — chain of long, narrow, sandy islands, along the coast of N.C.
- oxygen mask — a masklike device placed or worn over the nose and mouth when inhaling supplementary oxygen from an attached tank.
- oyster rake — a rake with a long handle and curved teeth for gathering in oysters from shallow waters
- packet soup — soup supplied in dried form in a packet
- park forest — a city in NE Illinois.
- parkersburg — a city in NW West Virginia, on the Ohio River.
- passagework — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
- peace talks — negotiations aimed at ending conflict
- peak season — busiest annual period
- perestroika — Russian. the program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986.
- pervouralsk — a city in the central RSFSR, in the Ural Mountains in Asia.
- phrase book — a small book containing everyday phrases and sentences and their equivalents in a foreign language, written especially for travelers.
- phrasemaker — a person who is skilled in coining well-turned phrases; phraseologist.
- plank-sheer — a plank or timber covering the upper ends of the frames of a wooden vessel
- plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
- plisetskaya — Maya (Mikhailovna) [mah-yuh myi-khahy-luh v-nuh] /ˈmɑ yə myɪˈxaɪ ləv nə/ (Show IPA), 1925–2015, Soviet ballet dancer.
- pond-skater — any of various heteropterous insects of the family Gerrididae, esp Gerris lacustris (common pond-skater), having a slender hairy body and long hairy legs with which they skim about on the surface of ponds
- press brake — brake1 (def 6).
- prick-tease — a woman who is sexually provocative but refuses to engage in sexual activity
- prokaryotes — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- punji stake — a sharp bamboo stake concealed in high grass at an angle so as to gash the feet and legs of enemy soldiers and often coated with excrement so as to cause an infected wound.
- quacksalver — a quack doctor.
- rail strike — a strike by railway workers
- rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
- rathskeller — (in Germany) the cellar of a town hall, often used as a beer hall or restaurant.
- rattlesnake — any of several New World pit vipers of the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle composed of a series of horny, interlocking elements at the end of the tail.
- rickettsial — any member of the genus Rickettsia, comprising rod-shaped to coccoid microorganisms that resemble bacteria but can be as small as a large virus and reproduce only inside a living cell, parasitic in fleas, ticks, lice, and mites and transmitted by bite to vertebrate hosts, including humans, causing such severe diseases as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
- ringstraked — ring-streaked.
- risk-averse — reluctant to take risks; tending to avoid risks as much as possible: risk-averse entrepreneurs.
- rock steady — the style of vocalized Jamaican popular music that succeeded ska and preceded reggae in the 1960s, influenced by American soul music and having a more upbeat tempo with emphasis on electric bass and guitar rather than on horns.
- rollerskate — a form of skate with four wheels or rollers instead of a runner, for use on a sidewalk or other surface offering traction.
- round steak — a steak cut from directly above the hind leg of beef.
- saarbrucken — a state in W Germany, in the Saar River valley. 991 sq. mi. (2569 sq. km). Capital: Saarbrücken.
- sabine lake — a shallow lake on the boundary between Texas and Louisiana, formed by a widening of the Sabine River. About 17 miles (27 km) long; 7 miles (11 km) wide.
- saddle back — any of various animals having markings on the back that resemble a saddle, as a male harp seal.
- safecracker — a person who breaks open safes to rob them.
- safekeeping — the act of keeping safe or the state of being kept safe; protection; care; custody.
- safety hook — a hook that can be transformed into an eye by locking a hinged piece in place.
- safety lock — a lock designed to prevent picking.
- sales check — sales slip.
- sales clerk — shop assistant
- salt shaker — a container for salt with a perforated top to allow the salt to be shaken out.
- saltchucker — a saltwater angler
- sample book — a number of pieces of fabric, wallpaper, etc fastened together at one edge, for people to examine when trying to choose which example to buy