11-letter words containing k, l
- shacklebone — the wrist
- shake a leg — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
- shelftalker — a promotional sign used by a retailer to draw attention to a featured product on the shelf
- shell shock — battle fatigue.
- shell steak — a cut of steak from the short loin
- shellacking — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
- sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
- shingle oak — an oak, Quercus imbricaria, yielding a wood used for shingles, clapboards, etc.
- shovel beak — a deformity of the beak in intensively reared chicks
- shriekingly — with shrieking
- shuttlecock — Also called shuttle. the object that is struck back and forth in badminton and battledore, consisting of a feathered cork head and a plastic crown.
- sickle cell — an abnormal red blood cell having an elongated, crescentlike shape due to the presence of an abnormal hemoglobin.
- sidewalking — the practice of shopkeepers standing on the sidewalk outside their shops to attract customers.
- signal book — a book containing the signals to be used for sending messages to other boats
- silk cotton — the silky covering of the seeds of certain tropical trees of the bombax family, used for stuffing cushions, pillows, etc.
- silk finish — the appearance of paint, fabric etc with regard to its smoothness and light reflecting quality
- 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.
- silk-tassel — any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Garrya, of the western U.S., having evergreen foliage and flowers in pendulous catkins.
- 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.
- simnel cake — any of several kinds of rich fruitcake covered with almond paste.
- single knot — overhand knot.
- single-knit — a fabric made on warp knit.
- singlestick — a short, heavy stick.
- 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.
- six o'clock — 6 P.M., 1800 hours
- skatemobile — a scooterlike vehicle built of boxes, boards, or the like, and mounted on skate wheels.
- skeletonize — to reduce to a skeleton, outline, or framework.
- skeptically — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
- skidbladnir — the huge collapsible ship, made by two dwarfs for Frey, that always had a favoring wind.
- skillcentre — an institution providing vocational training or retraining for employed or unemployed people
- skilligalee — gruel
- skin colour — the colour of a person's skin, ie Black, White, etc
- skittle out — to dismiss (batsmen) quickly
- skulduddery — (of people) adultery
- skulduggery — dishonorable proceedings; mean dishonesty or trickery: bribery, graft, and other such skulduggery.
- sky cavalry — air cavalry.
- sky marshal — an armed plainclothes federal marshal riding on an airliner to protect against skyjacking.
- slack water — a period when a body of water is between tides.
- slack-baked — improperly baked.
- slack-jawed — having the mouth open, especially as an indication of astonishment, bewilderment, etc.
- slacken off — If something slackens off, it becomes slower, less active, or less intense.
- slacklining — the activity of walking across a narrow line of synthetic webbing hung slackly above the ground
- slacktivism — actions taken to bring about political or social change but requiring only minimal commitment, effort, or risk: students engaging in slacktivism by signing an online petition.
- slaked lime — another name for calcium hydroxide, esp when made by adding water to calcium oxide
- slate black — a slightly purplish black.
- sleepwalker — the act or state of walking, eating, or performing other motor acts while asleep, of which one is unaware upon awakening; somnambulism.
- sleeve link — cuff link.
- slickenside — a rock surface that has become more or less polished and striated by slippage along a fault plane.