11-letter words containing k, i, r, e
- sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
- ship-broker — a person who acts for a shipowner by getting cargo and passengers for his ships and also handling insurance and other matters
- shipwrecked — the destruction or loss of a ship, as by sinking.
- shirtjacket — a jacket styled like a shirt
- shitkickers — an unsophisticated farmer, cowboy, or other rural person; country person.
- shriekingly — with shrieking
- sidetracked — any railroad track, other than a siding, auxiliary to the main track.
- silk thread — thread that is manufactured from silk
- silk-screen — Silk-screen printing is a method of printing patterns onto cloth by forcing paint or dyes through silk or similar material.
- silver book — (publication) Jensen and Wirth's infamous "Pascal User Manual and Report", so called because of the silver cover of the widely distributed Springer-Verlag second edition of 1978 (ISBN 0-387-90144-2). See also book titles, Pascal.
- silver hake — a common hake, Merluccius bilinearis, occurring off the Atlantic coast of North America and popular as a food fish.
- singletrack — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
- skillcentre — an institution providing vocational training or retraining for employed or unemployed people
- skin cancer — melanoma: malignant tumour
- skin-search — strip-search.
- skinner box — a box used in experiments in animal learning, especially in operant conditioning, equipped with a mechanism that automatically gives the animal food or other reward or permits escape, as by opening a door.
- skip tracer — an investigator whose job is to locate missing persons, especially debtors.
- skirt steak — a thin cut of beef taken from the plate or, sometimes, from the diaphragm
- skunk river — a river in central Iowa, flowing SE to the Mississippi River. 264 miles (425 km) long.
- smoke-dried — to dry or cure (meat or other food) using smoke.
- smoky river — a river in W central Alberta, Canada, flowing N to the Peace River. 250 miles (402 km) long.
- snake river — a river flowing from NW Wyoming through S Idaho into the Columbia River in SE Washington: Shoshone Falls. 1038 miles (1670 km) long.
- snickersnee — a knife, especially one used as a weapon.
- snickometer — a device, which uses sound waves recorded by the stump microphone, employed by TV commentators to determine whether or not a batsman has made contact with the ball
- snorkelling — the activity of swimming with a snorkel
- sockdoliger — a conclusive argument; a hard blow
- soldierlike — resembling a soldier
- soured milk — milk that has been deliberately soured by fermentation or by adding acids such as lemon juice or vinegar, to be used in cooking
- speakership — a person who speaks.
- spirit lake — a lake in SW Washington, at the N foot of Mount St. Helens: site of devastation during 1980 eruptions of Mount St. Helens.
- spirketting — deck planking near the bulwarks
- spitsticker — a wood-engraving tool with a fine prow-shaped point for cutting curved lines
- spot strike — a labor strike by a local branch of a union.
- sprinklered — having or protected by a sprinkler system.
- sterlitamak — a city in the Russian Federation in Europe, W of the Southern Urals.
- stickleader — a person assigned to check the appearance or condition of each person in a stick
- strike back — retaliate
- strike down — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- strike dumb — to amaze; astound; astonish
- strike fire — to make a spark, as with tinder
- strike fund — an amount of money reserved by a union to make payments to striking works should a strike occur
- strike home — to deliver an effective blow
- strike note — the note produced by a bell when struck, defining its musical pitch
- strike slip — the component of slip on a fault parallel with the linear extension or strike of the fault.
- strike zone — the area above home plate extending from the batter's knees to his or her shoulders.
- strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
- strip poker — a game of poker in which the losers in a hand remove an article of clothing.
- strip steak — cut of beef: sirloin
- sucker bait — an enticement calculated to lure a person into a scheme in which he or she may be victimized.
- sucker list — a list of names and addresses of persons considered by a business, charity organization, etc., to be likely purchasers or donors.