10-letter words containing k, e, l, s
- newsweekly — a newsmagazine or newspaper published weekly.
- numskulled — Alternative form of numbskulled.
- oiled silk — silk treated with oil to make it waterproof
- outsparkle — to sparkle more brilliantly than
- outspeckle — a spectacle
- packsaddle — a saddle specifically designed for holding or supporting the load on a pack animal.
- parkleaves — a species of St John's wort
- pick holes — If you pick holes in an argument or theory, you find weak points in it so that it is no longer valid.
- pikesville — a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- pink slime — beef trimmings that have been ground and liquefied, used as a binder in minced beef and other meat products
- pluckiness — having or showing pluck or courage; brave: The drowning swimmer was rescued by a plucky schoolboy.
- pokerishly — in a pokerish manner
- ramshackle — dilapidated, run down
- rank scale — (in systemic linguistics) a hierarchical ordering of grammatical units such that a unit of a given rank normally consists of units of the next lower rank, as, in English, the ordering sentence, clause, group or phrase, word, morpheme.
- ranshackle — to ransack
- ratskeller — the cellar of a town hall, esp one used as a beer hall or restaurant
- recklessly — utterly unconcerned about the consequences of some action; without caution; careless (usually followed by of): to be reckless of danger.
- saddleback — any of various animals having markings on the back that resemble a saddle, as a male harp seal.
- sail maker — someone whose occupation is to make and repair sails for boats
- sailorlike — resembling a sailor
- saint luke — a fellow worker of Paul and a physician (Colossians 4:14). Feast day: Oct 18
- sales talk — a line of reasoning or argument intended to persuade someone to buy, accept, or do something.
- salesclerk — a person who sells goods in a store.
- salt shake — a salt shaker.
- saltshaker — table-salt dispenser
- saucerlike — resembling a saucer
- sb's likes — someone's favourable feelings, desires, preferences, etc
- scale back — a reduction in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaledown of military expenditures.
- scale-back — a reduction in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaledown of military expenditures.
- scythelike — an agricultural implement consisting of a long, curving blade fastened at an angle to a handle, for cutting grass, grain, etc., by hand.
- seamanlike — like or befitting a seaman; showing good seamanship.
- self-stick — having a surface coated or treated to stick to another surface without the use of glue or moisture; self-adhesive.
- semiweekly — occurring, done, appearing, or published twice a week: semiweekly visits.
- sex-linked — (of a gene) located in a sex chromosome.
- shackleton — Sir Ernest Henry, 1874–1922, English explorer of the Antarctic.
- shadowlike — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- shark bell — a bell sounded to warn swimmers of the presence of sharks
- shelf mark — a symbol indicating the location of a work on a shelf.
- shell back — an underside of a spoon bowl ornamented with a shell motif.
- shell pink — delicate whitish to yellow pink.
- shell-like — a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
- shellacked — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
- shellshock — loss of sight, memory, etc, resulting from psychological strain during prolonged engagement in warfare
- shopwalker — a floorwalker.
- shore lark — a bird: Eremophila alpestris
- shrimplike — any of several small, long-tailed, chiefly marine crustaceans of the decapod suborder Natania, certain species of which are used as food.
- sick leave — leave from duty, work, or the like, granted because of illness.
- sickle bar — cutter bar (def 1).
- sicklebill — any of various birds having a long, curved bill, as the long-billed curlew or curve-billed thrasher.
- sicklemias — the usually asymptomatic hereditary condition that occurs when a person inherits from only one parent the abnormal hemoglobin gene characteristic of sickle cell anemia.