9-letter words containing l, a, k, e, s
- shellback — an old sailor.
- shellbark — the shagbark tree.
- shoeblack — bootblack.
- sickleman — a person reaping with a sickle
- sicklemia — the usually asymptomatic hereditary condition that occurs when a person inherits from only one parent the abnormal hemoglobin gene characteristic of sickle cell anemia.
- sidewalks — a walk, especially a paved one, at the side of a street or road.
- silkaline — a soft, thin cotton fabric with a smooth finish, for curtains, bedspreads, garment linings, etc.
- skedaddle — to run away hurriedly; flee.
- skeptical — doubtful about a particular thing: My teacher thinks I can get a scholarship, but I'm skeptical.
- skippable — able to be skipped, omitted, or passed over without loss; unimportant.
- skylarker — a brown-speckled European lark, Alauda arvensis, famed for its melodious song.
- slab cake — a large square or rectangular-shaped cake
- slack-key — a style of Hawaiian popular music played on an acoustic guitar with strings tuned to notes lower than standard guitar tuning for more bass resonance.
- slackener — a person who, or something which, slackens
- slackness — not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
- slakeless — impossible to slake
- slatelike — resembling slate
- slavenska — Mia [mee-ah] /ˈmi ɑ/ (Show IPA), (Mia Corak) 1914?–2002, U.S. dancer and choreographer, born in Yugoslavia.
- sleepwalk — to engage in sleepwalking.
- snake fly — any neuropterous insect of the family Raphidiidae, of western North America, having an elongated prothorax resembling a neck.
- snake oil — any of various liquid concoctions of questionable medical value sold as an all-purpose curative, especially by traveling hucksters.
- snakelike — any of numerous limbless, scaly, elongate reptiles of the suborder Serpentes, comprising venomous and nonvenomous species inhabiting tropical and temperate areas.
- snowflake — one of the small, feathery masses or flakes in which snow falls.
- soda lake — a salt lake that has a high content of sodium salts, esp chlorides and sulphates
- sootflake — a smudge or speck of soot
- soul cake — a round, sweet bun or small, oval cake, traditionally made to celebrate All Souls' Day.
- spacewalk — a task or mission performed by an astronaut outside a spacecraft in space.
- spadelike — resembling a spade
- sparkless — having no spark
- speakable — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
- spearlike — resembling a spear
- special k — an animal anaesthetic, ketamine hydrochloride, sold illegally as a hallucinogenic drug
- speedwalk — an endless conveyor belt, moving walk, or the like used to transport standing persons from place to place.
- 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
- stackable — capable of being stacked, especially easily: stackable chairs.
- stackless — without or not using a stack
- stagelike — resembling a theatrical stage
- stairlike — resembling stairs
- stalkless — having no stalk.
- stalklike — the stem or main axis of a plant.
- stickable — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- strikable — being cause for a strike, as by union members: strikable labor issues.
- strokable — appearing pleasant to stroke
- supertalk — Silicon Beach Software. A superset of HyperTalk used in SuperCard.
- swan lake — a ballet (1876) by Tchaikovsky.
- take silk — to become a Queen's (or King's) Counsel
- talkiness — the quality or condition of being talky; wordiness
- thankless — not likely to be appreciated or rewarded; unappreciated: a thankless job.
- trackless — without a track, as a snow-covered meadow.
- unshackle — to free from shackles; unfetter.