9-letter words containing k, s, t, a
- 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.
- surakarta — a city on central Java, in central Indonesia.
- sweptback — (of the leading edge of an airfoil) forming a markedly obtuse angle with the fuselage.
- syktyvkar — an autonomous republic in the NW Russian Federation in Europe. 145,221 sq. mi. (376,122 sq. km). Capital: Syktyvkar.
- tackiness — not tasteful or fashionable; dowdy.
- tail skid — a runner under the tail of an airplane.
- tailstock — a movable or sliding support for the dead center of a lathe or grinder.
- takamatsu — a seaport on NE Shikoku, in SW Japan.
- takatsuki — a city on S Honshu, in Japan: a suburb of Osaka.
- take arms — go to war
- take odds — to accept such a bet
- take silk — to become a Queen's (or King's) Counsel
- take vows — to enter a religious order and commit oneself to its rule of life by the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, which may be taken for a limited period as simple vows or as a perpetual and still more solemn commitment as solemn vows
- talk shop — a retail store, especially a small one.
- talk show — a radio or television show in which a host interviews or chats with guests, especially celebrity guests.
- talkiness — the quality or condition of being talky; wordiness
- tank suit — a simple one-piece bathing suit for women, having a scoop neck and shoulder straps and usually no lining or inner construction; maillot.
- tarkovsky — Andrei (ˈɑndrej). 1932–86, Soviet film director, whose films include Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1971), Nostalgia (1983), and The Sacrifice (1986)
- task-work — work assigned or imposed as a task.
- textspeak — a form of written language as used in text messages and other digital communications, characterized by many abbreviations and typically not following standard grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style.
- thankings — expressions of gratitude or acts of thanking
- thankless — not likely to be appreciated or rewarded; unappreciated: a thankless job.
- thanks to — to express gratitude, appreciation, or acknowledgment to: She thanked them for their hospitality.
- the backs — the grounds between the River Cam and certain Cambridge colleges
- the stake — a stick or post pointed at one end for driving into the ground as a boundary mark, part of a fence, support for a plant, etc.
- tokushima — a seaport on NE Shikoku, in SW Japan.
- trackless — without a track, as a snow-covered meadow.
- trackside — located next to a railroad track.
- tracksuit — a sweat suit, usually with a long-sleeved jacket and long pants, worn by athletes, especially runners, before and after actual competition or during workouts.
- trainsick — ill with train sickness.
- tsakonian — a modern Greek dialect spoken on the east coast of the Peloponnesus, descended from the Laconian dialect of ancient Sparta.
- tsinkiang — Older Spelling. former name of Quanzhou.
- 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.
- turkistan — 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.
- unstalked — without a stalk or stalks.
- wakamatsu — a seaport on N Kyushu, in S Japan: formed in 1963 by the merger of five cities (Kokura, Moji, Tobata, Wakamatsu, and Yawata)
- 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.
- weak spot — some aspect of a character or situation that is susceptible to criticism
- weakliest — Superlative form of weakly.
- west bank — an area in the Middle East, between the W bank of the Jordan River and the E frontier of Israel: occupied in 1967 and subsequently claimed by Israel; formerly held by Jordan.
- workboats — Plural form of workboat.
- workmates — Plural form of workmate.
- yardstick — a stick a yard long, commonly marked with subdivisions, used for measuring.
- zákinthos — one of the southernmost islands of the Ionian Islands, Greece: 155 sq mi (401 sq km)
- zakynthos — Greek name of Zante.