9-letter words containing k, a, s, p
- skaldship — the office of an ancient Scandinavian poet
- skatepark — A skatepark is an area that is designed for people to practise skateboarding.
- skeptical — doubtful about a particular thing: My teacher thinks I can get a scholarship, but I'm skeptical.
- sketchpad — sketchbook (def 1).
- 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.
- skiagraph — a radiograph.
- skiascope — retinoscope.
- skiascopy — retinoscope.
- skippable — able to be skipped, omitted, or passed over without loss; unimportant.
- 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.
- slapstick — broad comedy characterized by boisterous action, as the throwing of pies in actors' faces, mugging, and obvious farcical situations and jokes.
- sleepwalk — to engage in sleepwalking.
- snake pit — a mental hospital marked by squalor and inhumane or indifferent care for the patients.
- snap back — a sudden rebound or recovery.
- snap link — a link with a latchlike opening through which another link or catch can be fitted.
- soopstake — sweeping up all stakes
- spacewalk — a task or mission performed by an astronaut outside a spacecraft in space.
- spadelike — resembling a spade
- spadework — preliminary or initial work, such as the gathering of data, on which further activity is to be based.
- spar deck — the upper deck of a vessel, extending from stem to stern.
- spark gap — a space between two electrodes, across which a discharge of electricity may take place.
- spark off — cause, provoke
- sparkless — having no spark
- sparkling — to issue in or as if in little sparks, as fire or light: The candlelight sparkled in the crystal.
- sparkover — spark1 (def 2).
- sparkplug — to lead, inspire, or animate something or someone.
- speak for — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
- speak out — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
- speakable — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
- speakeasy — a saloon or nightclub selling alcoholic beverages illegally, especially during Prohibition.
- spearlike — resembling a spear
- special k — an animal anaesthetic, ketamine hydrochloride, sold illegally as a hallucinogenic drug
- speedwalk — an endless conveyor belt, moving walk, or the like used to transport standing persons from place to place.
- speranski — Mikhail Mikhailovich (mixɑˈil). 1772–1839, Russian statesman, chief adviser (1807–12) to Alexander I. His greatest achievement was the codification of Russian law (begun 1826)
- spikedace — a scaleless, mottled, olive-brown fish, Meda fulgida, of the Gila River system in New Mexico and Arizona, having two dorsal spines.
- spikenard — an aromatic, Indian plant, Nardostachys jatamansi, of the valerian family, believed to be the nard of the ancients.
- spinnaker — a large, usually triangular sail carried by a yacht as a headsail when running before the wind or when the wind is abaft the beam.
- spokesman — a person who speaks for another or for a group.
- sprekelia — a bulbous plant, Sprekelia formosissima, from Mexico and Guatemala, related to hippeastrum and grown for its striking crimson or white pendent flowers, in the form of a cross: family Amaryllidaceae
- steampunk — a subgenre of science fiction and fantasy featuring advanced machines and other technology based on steam power of the 19th century and taking place in a recognizable historical period or a fantasy world.
- step back — retreat, move backwards
- strapwork — a type of ornamentation imitating pierced and interlaced straps or bands, usually forming a geometric pattern.
- superbank — a bank that owns other banks; an overarching banking organization
- supertalk — Silicon Beach Software. A superset of HyperTalk used in SuperCard.
- supertask — a paradox resulting from the notion that a task requiring an infinite number of steps could be performed in a finite time by halving the duration of each step.
- sweepback — the shape of, or the angle formed by, an airplane wing or other airfoil the leading or trailing edge of which slopes backward from the fuselage.
- sweptback — (of the leading edge of an airfoil) forming a markedly obtuse angle with the fuselage.
- talk shop — a retail store, especially a small one.
- textspeak — a form of written language as used in text messages and other digital communications, characterized by many abbreviations and typically not following standard grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style.