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11-letter words containing k, s, h

  • sketch book — a collection of essays and stories (1819–20) by Washington Irving.
  • sketch show — a show, such as a TV show or public performance, consisting of a variety of short comedy scenes
  • sketchiness — like a sketch; giving only outlines or essentials. Synonyms: cursory, rough, meager, crude.
  • skin-search — strip-search.
  • sky marshal — an armed plainclothes federal marshal riding on an airliner to protect against skyjacking.
  • smoke shelf — a ledge at the bottom of a smoke chamber, so made as to deflect or break downdrafts from the chimney.
  • smokechaser — a person who fights forest fires, especially one with lightweight equipment.
  • smooth-talk — to persuade by flattery, cajolery, coaxing, or the like: We smooth-talked the company into a huge donation.
  • snakishness — the state or quality of being like a snake
  • sneak thief — a burglar who sneaks into houses through open doors, windows, etc.
  • sound check — an on-the-spot rehearsal by a band before a gig to enable the sound engineer to set up the mixer
  • south korea — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 36,600 sq. mi. (94,795 sq. km). Capital: Seoul. Compare Korea.
  • sparrowhawk — a small, short-winged European hawk, Accipiter nisus, that preys on smaller birds.
  • speakership — a person who speaks.
  • speechmaker — a person who delivers speeches.
  • speed check — a method of checking the speed at which vehicles are travelling, used by police
  • spell check — to process (a document) with a spell checker; check the spelling of.
  • spell-check — to process (a document) with a spell checker; check the spelling of.
  • spike heath — a Eurasian evergreen shrub, Bruckenthalia spiculifolia, of the heath family, having narrow leaves and bell-shaped, pink flowers, growing in gritty soil.
  • spike heels — Spike heels are women's shoes with very high narrow heels.
  • spinachlike — resembling or characteristic of spinach
  • stake horse — a horse that is regularly entered in stake races.
  • stakeholder — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
  • steak house — A steak house is a restaurant that serves mainly steaks.
  • stick shift — a manually operated transmission for an automotive vehicle, with the shift lever set either in the floor or on the steering column.
  • stickhandle — (in hockey and lacrosse) to control and skillfully maneuver the ball or puck with the stick.
  • stock horse — a horse or pony used in herding cattle.
  • stockhausen — Karlheinz [kahrl-hahynts] /ˈkɑrlˌhaɪnts/ (Show IPA), 1928–2007, German composer.
  • stockholder — Also called stockowner. a holder or owner of stock in a corporation.
  • strike home — to deliver an effective blow
  • stroke hole — (in a handicap match) a hole at which players with a handicap deduct a stroke from the number taken to play the hole.
  • suckerpunch — to strike (someone) with an unexpected blow.
  • svarabhakti — the process of inserting vowel sounds into a consonant cluster, as in a loanword to make it conform to the pattern of the speaker's language and, hence, more easily pronounceable, as in the Italian pronunciation [lahn-tsee-ke-nek-kaw] /ˌlɑn tsi kɛˈnɛk kɔ/ (Show IPA) for German Landsknecht [lahnts-knekht] /ˈlɑntsˌknɛxt/ (Show IPA).
  • swashbuckle — to work, behave, or perform as a swashbuckler.
  • sweep check — a maneuver for depriving an opponent of the puck by seizing it in the crook of one's stick and pulling it away with a movement in a long arc, the stick being held level or nearly level with the ice. Compare check1 (def 37).
  • take a shit — to defecate
  • tchaikovsky — Peter Ilyich [il-yich] /ˈɪl yɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), or Pëtr Ilich [Russian pyawtr ee-lyeech] /Russian ˈpyɔtr iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), 1840–93, Russian composer.
  • technospeak — any abstruse technical jargon
  • tenterhooks — one of the hooks or bent nails that hold cloth stretched on a tenter.
  • textbookish — suggesting a textbook, especially in literary style or composition.
  • thanksgiver — a person who gives thanks.
  • the dakotas — North Dakota and South Dakota
  • the five ks — items traditionally worn or carried by Sikhs, each possessing a symbolic importance
  • the shakers — an American millenarian sect, founded in 1747 as an offshoot of the Quakers, given to ecstatic shaking, advocating celibacy for its members, and practising common ownership of property
  • the tussock — country where tussock grass grows
  • the-knights — a comedy (424 b.c.) by Aristophanes.
  • thelytokous — pertaining to or produced by thelytoky.
  • theodorakis — Mikis (ˈmikis). born 1925, Greek composer, who wrote the music for the films Zorba the Greek (1965) and Serpico (1973): imprisoned (1967–70) for his opposition to the Greek military government
  • thread silk — silk yarn produced by a silk throwster.
  • thumbsucker — a person who habitually sucks a thumb.
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