10-letter words containing k, r, i, s, n
- king truss — a truss having a king post.
- kingfisher — any of numerous fish- or insect-eating birds of the family Alcedinidae that have a large head and a long, stout bill and are usually crested and brilliantly colored.
- kingmakers — Plural form of kingmaker.
- kings park — a town in NW Long Island, in SE New York.
- kingsolver — Barbara, born 1955, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.
- kinsperson — A kinsman or kinswoman.
- knackeries — Plural form of knackery.
- knife rest — something upon which to rest a knife when it is not being used.
- konigsberg — a former province in NE Germany: an enclave separated from Germany by the Polish Corridor; now divided between Poland and the Russian Federation. 14,283 sq. mi. (36,993 sq. km). Capital: Königsberg.
- marketings — Plural form of marketing.
- marsh pink — any of several eastern North American plants belonging to the genus Sabatia, of the gentian family, having rose-pink flowers.
- michurinsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Ryazan.
- mini-skirt — A mini-skirt is a very short skirt.
- miniskirts — Plural form of miniskirt.
- ministroke — transient ischemic attack.
- moonstrike — the act of landing a spacecraft on the moon
- nitpickers — Plural form of nitpicker.
- noisemaker — a person or thing that makes noise, as a reveler on New Year's Eve, Halloween, etc., or a rattle, horn, or similar device used on such an occasion.
- nonstriker — One who is not participating in an industrial strike.
- painstaker — a painstaking person
- paraskiing — the sport of jumping off high mountains wearing skis and a light parachute composed of inflatable fabric tubes that form a semirigid wing
- picnickers — an excursion or outing in which the participants carry food with them and share a meal in the open air.
- pink stern — a sharp stern having a narrow, overhanging, raking transom.
- prankishly — in a prankish manner, mischievously
- prick song — written music.
- pricklings — tingly sensations of discomfort or euphoria
- printworks — (used with a singular or plural verb) a factory that prints textiles or other materials.
- quirkiness — having or full of quirks.
- ransacking — to search thoroughly or vigorously through (a house, receptacle, etc.): They ransacked the house for the missing letter.
- raskolniki — a member of any of several sects founded by dissenters from the Russian Orthodox Church who opposed the liturgical reforms of Nikon in the 17th century.
- red siskin — a South American finch (Carduelis cucullata) with a black head and red body, sometimes kept as a cage bird
- reichsbank — the former German national bank.
- ring snake — grass snake (def 1).
- run a risk — exposure to the chance of injury or loss; a hazard or dangerous chance: It's not worth the risk.
- sanskritic — an Indo-European, Indic language, in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India. Abbreviation: Skt.
- scarf-skin — the outermost layer of the skin; epidermis.
- scrimshank — to avoid one's obligations or share of work; shirk.
- shrink fit — a tight fit of a collar or wheel boss on a shaft obtained by expanding the collar or boss by heating to enable it to be threaded onto the shaft and then allowing it to cool, or by freezing the shaft to reduce its diameter to enable it to be threaded into the collar or boss and then allowing the shaft temperature to rise
- shrinkpack — flexible plastic used for shrink-wrapping goods
- sickerness — sureness
- 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.
- silverskin — the inner skin of a coffee bean
- sinkerball — sinker (def 5).
- skimmerton — shivaree (def 1).
- skin color — tone of complexion
- skin diver — person who explores underwater
- skin graft — skin used for transplanting in skin grafting.
- skinnerian — a psychologist who follows behaviorist theories developed by B. F. Skinner.
- skippering — the master or captain of a vessel, especially of a small trading or fishing vessel.
- skittering — to go, run, or glide lightly or rapidly.