9-letter words containing e, s, k, a
- newsmaker — a person, thing, or event that is newsworthy: a weekly magazine devoted to stories on newsmakers.
- newsqueak — A concurrent applicative language with synchronous channels.
- nicknames — Plural form of nickname.
- ninebarks — Plural form of ninebark.
- nonskater — a person who does not skate
- nukespeak — Informal. euphemistic language and obscuring jargon used in discussions of nuclear weapons, nuclear power, etc.: nukespeak that minimizes the risks of nuclear war.
- oakenshaw — an area of woodland containing oak trees
- oddsmaker — a person who calculates or predicts the outcome of a contest, as in sports or politics, and sets betting odds.
- outbreaks — Plural form of outbreak.
- outskates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outskate.
- outspeaks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outspeak.
- packhorse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
- packsheet — a cloth used for packing goods
- palsylike — resembling palsy
- pasternak — Boris Leonidovich [bawr-is,, bohr-,, bor-;; Russian buh-ryees lyi-uh-nyee-duh-vyich] /ˈbɔr ɪs,, ˈboʊr-,, ˈbɒr-;; Russian bʌˈryis lyɪ ʌˈnyi də vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1960, Russian poet, novelist, and translator: declined 1958 Nobel prize.
- peakiness — peaked2 .
- periaktos — an ancient device used for changing theatre scenery, usually consisting of a revolving triangular prism with different scenes painted on each face; the device was heavily used in the Renaissance
- perovskia — a member of the Perovskia genus of aromatic plant native to central Asia, esp Russian sage, Perovskia atriplicifolia
- phenakism — a form of deceit or craftiness
- pikestaff — the shaft of an infantry pike.
- pipsqueak — a contemptibly small or unimportant person; a twerp.
- piss-take — A piss-take is an act of making fun of someone or something.
- plackless — lacking money; penniless
- pranksome — tending to play pranks; mischievous; prankish
- prankster — a mischievous or malicious person who plays tricks, practical jokes, etc., at the expense of another.
- pressmark — a symbol indicating the location of a book in the library.
- quakeress — a woman or girl who is a Quaker.
- quakerism — the beliefs, principles, and practices of Quakers.
- rakeshame — a shamefully dissolute person; rogue
- ransacker — to search thoroughly or vigorously through (a house, receptacle, etc.): They ransacked the house for the missing letter.
- rat snake — any of several New and Old World colubrid snakes, of the genus Elaphe, that feed chiefly on small mammals and birds.
- red shank — an Old World sandpiper, Tringa totanus, having red legs and feet.
- redstreak — an English variety of apple which is streaked red and yellow and is used in cider making
- rib steak — club steak.
- risktaker — a person or corporation inclined to take risks: The management trainees were exhorted to become risktakers.
- sabrelike — resembling a sabre
- sack race — a race in which each contestant jumps ahead while his or her legs are confined in a sack.
- sack time — time spent sleeping.
- sackville — Thomas, 1st Earl of Dorset, 1536–1608, English statesman and poet.
- sage cock — the male sage grouse.
- sailmaker — a person who makes or repairs sails.
- sakajawea — ("Bird Woman") 1787?–1812? Shoshone guide and interpreter: accompanied Lewis and Clark expedition 1804–05.
- sakakawea — Lake, a reservoir in W central North Dakota, on the Missouri River, formed by the Garrison Dam (completed 1956). 178 miles (286 km) long.
- salt cake — an impure form of sodium sulfate, especially as obtained by the interaction of sulfuric acid and common salt in the synthesis of hydrochloric acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of glass, ceramic glazes, soaps, and sodium salts.
- salt lake — a body of water having no outlet to the sea and containing in solution a high concentration of salts, especially sodium chloride.
- sand leek — a Eurasian alliaceous plant, Allium scorodoprasum, having reddish-pink flowers, purple bulbils, and a garlic-like bulb
- sapsucker — any of several American woodpeckers of the genus Sphyrapicus that drill holes in maple, apple, hemlock, etc., drinking the sap and eating the insects that gather there.
- sarkiness — the quality of being sarcastic
- scalelike — Zoology. one of the thin, flat, horny plates forming the covering of certain animals, as snakes, lizards, and pangolins. one of the hard, bony or dentinal plates, either flat or denticulate, forming the covering of certain other animals, as fishes.
- scalework — an ornamentation technique used to depict scales on fish or other creatures