9-letter words containing k, a, i, t
- phenakite — a very hard, glassy, rhombohedral mineral, Be2SiO4, of various colors, sometimes used as a gem; beryllium silicate
- phil katz — (person) The founder of PKWARE, Inc..
- pickthank — a person who seeks favor by flattery or gossip; sycophant.
- pikestaff — the shaft of an infantry pike.
- pink coat — the coat, usually scarlet, of the hunt uniform worn by the staff and by male members of the hunt.
- piss-take — A piss-take is an act of making fun of someone or something.
- plantlike — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- plasticky — made of or resembling plastic
- platelike — a shallow, usually circular dish, often of earthenware or porcelain, from which food is eaten.
- pontianak — a seaport on W Kalimantan (Borneo), in central Indonesia.
- predikant — a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, esp in South Africa
- printback — an enlarged print from a microfilm copy.
- psamtik i — king of Egypt 663–609 b.c. (son of Necho I).
- racketing — Slang. an occupation, livelihood, or business. an easy or profitable source of livelihood.
- rainstick — a musical instrument consisting of a tube filled with sand or pebbles, which is inverted to produce a sound
- rankshift — (in systemic linguistics) to use a unit as a constituent of another unit of the same or lower rank on the rank scale, as in using the phrase next door within the phrase the boy next door or the clause that you met yesterday within the phrase the girl that you met yesterday.
- rib steak — club steak.
- rickstand — a platform on which to put or make a rick or haystack
- risktaker — a person or corporation inclined to take risks: The management trainees were exhorted to become risktakers.
- sack suit — a man's suit that has a loose-fitting jacket.
- sack time — time spent sleeping.
- salt lick — a place to which animals go to lick naturally occurring salt deposits.
- schematik — A NeXT front-end to MIT Scheme for the NeXT by Chris Kane and Max Hailperin <[email protected]>. Schematik provides syntax-knowledgeable text editing, graphics windows and a user-interface to an underlying MIT Scheme process. It comes with MIT Scheme 7.1.3 ready to install on the NeXT and requires NEXTSTEP. Version: 1.1.5.2.
- sidetrack — any railroad track, other than a siding, auxiliary to the main track.
- skate-ski — to glide over snow on skate skis.
- skeptical — doubtful about a particular thing: My teacher thinks I can get a scholarship, but I'm skeptical.
- ski pants — pants worn for skiing, having the legs tapered to fit snugly at the ankles and sometimes having a strap going under the arch, often made of a stretch or waterproof fabric.
- sky train — elevated railway system
- slapstick — broad comedy characterized by boisterous action, as the throwing of pies in actors' faces, mugging, and obvious farcical situations and jokes.
- slatelike — resembling slate
- snake pit — a mental hospital marked by squalor and inhumane or indifferent care for the patients.
- snakebite — the bite of a snake, especially of one that is venomous.
- stab kick — a rapid kick of the ball from one player to another member of his team
- stagelike — resembling a theatrical stage
- stairlike — resembling stairs
- stairwork — unseen plotting
- stalklike — the stem or main axis of a plant.
- 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.
- stinkaroo — something markedly inferior in quality: a stinkaroo of a motion picture.
- stinkball — stinkpot (def 1).
- streaking — a long, narrow mark, smear, band of color, or the like: streaks of mud.
- strikable — being cause for a strike, as by union members: strikable labor issues.
- tackifier — a substance that causes tackiness
- tackiness — not tasteful or fashionable; dowdy.
- taikonaut — an astronaut from the People's Republic of China
- 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.
- tail skid — a runner under the tail of an airplane.
- tailstock — a movable or sliding support for the dead center of a lathe or grinder.
- takatsuki — a city on S Honshu, in Japan: a suburb of Osaka.