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9-letter words containing k, s, e, r

  • sparkover — spark1 (def 2).
  • speak for — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
  • spearlike — resembling a spear
  • spelunker — a person who explores caves, especially as a hobby.
  • speranski — Mikhail Mikhailovich (mixɑˈil). 1772–1839, Russian statesman, chief adviser (1807–12) to Alexander I. His greatest achievement was the codification of Russian law (begun 1826)
  • spikenard — an aromatic, Indian plant, Nardostachys jatamansi, of the valerian family, believed to be the nard of the ancients.
  • spinnaker — a large, usually triangular sail carried by a yacht as a headsail when running before the wind or when the wind is abaft the beam.
  • sprekelia — a bulbous plant, Sprekelia formosissima, from Mexico and Guatemala, related to hippeastrum and grown for its striking crimson or white pendent flowers, in the form of a cross: family Amaryllidaceae
  • sprinkler — any of various devices for sprinkling, as a watering pot, a container of water with a perforated top used to sprinkle clothes before ironing, or especially a perforated ring or small stand with a revolving nozzle to which a hose is attached for watering a lawn with a fine, even spray.
  • squeakery — a squeaking quality, manner, or action
  • stairlike — resembling stairs
  • starquake — a rapid change in the mass distribution or shape of a pulsar, resulting in a fluctuation of the pulsar's pulse rate or radiation intensity.
  • staymaker — a corset maker, a maker of stays
  • steelwork — steel parts or articles.
  • steenkirk — a type of cravat worn in a loose or disorderly manner
  • steinkern — the fossilized outline of a hollow organic structure, as a skull or a mollusk shell, formed when mud or sediment consolidated within the structure and the structure itself disintegrated or dissolved.
  • stickered — a person or thing that sticks.
  • stinkeroo — a bad or contemptible person or thing
  • stonework — any construction, as walls or the like, of stone; stone masonry.
  • stonkered — to hit hard; knock unconscious.
  • streaking — a long, narrow mark, smear, band of color, or the like: streaks of mud.
  • streeking — the act of stretching one's limbs, as on awakening or by exercise.
  • strikable — being cause for a strike, as by union members: strikable labor issues.
  • strike up — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
  • strikeout — an out made by a batter to whom three strikes have been charged, or as recorded by the pitcher who accomplishes this.
  • strokable — appearing pleasant to stroke
  • submarket — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
  • sunseeker — a person who travels to a warm and sunny climate, especially during cold months.
  • sunstroke — a sudden and sometimes fatal affection due to exposure to the sun's rays or to excessive heat, marked by prostration with or without fever, convulsion, and coma.
  • superbank — a bank that owns other banks; an overarching banking organization
  • superbike — a high-performance motorcycle
  • superjock — an extremely athletic person
  • supertalk — Silicon Beach Software. A superset of HyperTalk used in SuperCard.
  • supertask — a paradox resulting from the notion that a task requiring an infinite number of steps could be performed in a finite time by halving the duration of each step.
  • take arms — go to war
  • tewksbury — a city in NE Massachusetts.
  • the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
  • tk!solver — Software Arts 1983. Numerical constraint-oriented language. "The TK!Solver Book", M. Konopasek et al, McGraw-Hill 1984.
  • trackless — without a track, as a snow-covered meadow.
  • trackside — located next to a railroad track.
  • trickiest — given to or characterized by deceitful tricks; crafty; wily.
  • tricksome — tricksy (def 1).
  • trickster — a deceiver; cheat; fraud.
  • trunkless — the main stem of a tree, as distinct from the branches and roots.
  • turkestan — a vast region in W and central Asia, E of the Caspian Sea: includes territory in the S central part of Xinjiang province in China (Eastern Turkestan or Chinese Turkestan) a strip of N Afghanistan, and the area (Russian Turkestan) comprising the republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan), Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan), Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
  • urokinase — an enzyme, present in the blood and urine of mammals, that activates plasminogen and is used medicinally to dissolve blood clots.
  • wakeovers — Plural form of wakeover.
  • walkovers — Plural form of walkover.
  • water-ski — to plane over water on water skis or a water ski by grasping a towing rope pulled by a speedboat.
  • waterskin — The skin of a goat used as a container for water.
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