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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.
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