10-letter words containing k, l
- 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.
- scalp lock — a long lock or tuft of hair left on the shorn scalp by some North American Indian men.
- school kid — child of school age
- schoolbook — a book for study in schools.
- schoolwork — the material studied in or for school, comprising homework and work done in class.
- schuylkill — a river flowing SE from E Pennsylvania to the Delaware River at Philadelphia. 131 miles (210 km) long.
- scrollwork — decorative work in which scroll forms figure prominently.
- 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.
- shakuntala — Sakuntala.
- 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
- shift lock — a typewriter or computer key that locks the shift key in depressed position.
- shockingly — causing intense surprise, disgust, horror, etc.
- shockstall — the loss of lift and increase of drag experienced by transonic aircraft when strong shock waves on the wings cause the airflow to separate from the wing surfaces
- shopwalker — a floorwalker.
- shore lark — a bird: Eremophila alpestris
- shot clock — a clock used in basketball games to limit to a specific length the time taken between shots.
- shrimplike — any of several small, long-tailed, chiefly marine crustaceans of the decapod suborder Natania, certain species of which are used as food.
- shylockian — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
- shylocking — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
- 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.
- sickliness — not strong; unhealthy; ailing.
- silk gland — any of several glands, as in various insects and spiders, that secrete a viscid protein substance which hardens into silk on contact with air.
- silk paper — paper that contains silk fibers and is sometimes used for printing postage stamps and revenue stamps.
- silkgrower — a person who breeds silkworms for their silk
- silkscreen — Also called silkscreen process. a printmaking technique in which a mesh cloth is stretched over a heavy wooden frame and the design, painted on the screen by tusche or affixed by stencil, is printed by having a squeegee force color through the pores of the material in areas not blocked out by a glue sizing.
- silverback — an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.
- silverlike — Chemistry. a white, ductile metallic element, used for making mirrors, coins, ornaments, table utensils, photographic chemicals, conductors, etc. Symbol: Ag; atomic weight: 107.870; atomic number: 47; specific gravity: 10.5 at 20°C.
- silverskin — the inner skin of a coffee bean
- silverwork — fine or decorative work executed in silver.
- sinkerball — sinker (def 5).
- sisterlike — like a sister
- skaithless — without injury or damage
- skedaddler — a person or thing that skedaddles.