9-letter words containing n, e, k, i
- sketch in — If you sketch in details about something, you tell them to people.
- sketching — a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, especially a preliminary one, giving the essential features without the details.
- skewering — a long pin of wood or metal for inserting through meat or other food to hold or bind it in cooking.
- skin care — the cleansing, massaging, moisturizing, etc., of the skin, especially the face or hands.
- skin deep — superficial or slight; not profound or substantial: Their sincerity is only skin-deep.
- skin game — a dishonest or unscrupulous business operation, scheme, etc.
- skin test — a test in which a substance is introduced into the skin, as by application to a purposely abraded area or by injection, for the detection of allergic sensitivity to a specific pollen, protein, etc., or of the presence of a disease.
- skin-deep — superficial or slight; not profound or substantial: Their sincerity is only skin-deep.
- skin-dive — to engage in skin diving.
- skip zone — a region surrounding a broadcasting station that cannot receive transmissions either directly or by reflection off the ionosphere
- slickener — a tool used for slickening
- slinkweed — a plant believed to make a cow give birth prematurely
- smokiness — emitting smoke, especially in large amounts.
- snake oil — any of various liquid concoctions of questionable medical value sold as an all-purpose curative, especially by traveling hucksters.
- snake pit — a mental hospital marked by squalor and inhumane or indifferent care for the patients.
- snakebird — anhinga.
- snakebite — the bite of a snake, especially of one that is venomous.
- snakefish — lizardfish.
- snakelike — any of numerous limbless, scaly, elongate reptiles of the suborder Serpentes, comprising venomous and nonvenomous species inhabiting tropical and temperate areas.
- snakeskin — the skin of a snake.
- snakewise — in a snake-like manner
- snickered — to laugh in a half-suppressed, indecorous or disrespectful manner.
- snickerer — someone who snickers
- socked in — to strike or hit hard.
- sooterkin — the mythical black afterbirth of Dutch women that was believed to result from their warming themselves on stoves
- 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.
- spinelike — resembling a spine
- 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.
- 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.
- steenkirk — a type of cravat worn in a loose or disorderly manner
- steinbeck — John (Ernst) [urnst] /ɜrnst/ (Show IPA), 1902–68, U.S. novelist: Nobel prize 1962.
- 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.
- stinkeroo — a bad or contemptible person or thing
- stinkiest — foul smelling; stinking.
- stinkweed — any of various rank-smelling plants, as the jimson weed.
- stockinet — Also, stockinet. a stretchy, machine-knitted fabric used for making undergarments, infants' wear, etc.
- 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.
- sulkiness — marked by or given to sulking; sullen.
- sweelinck — Jan Pieters [yahn pee-tuh rs] /yɑn ˈpi tərs/ (Show IPA), or Jan Pieterszoon [yahn pee-tuh r-sohn] /yɑn ˈpi tərˌsoʊn/ (Show IPA), 1562–1621, Dutch organist and composer.
- tackiness — not tasteful or fashionable; dowdy.
- take wing — either of the two forelimbs of most birds and of bats, corresponding to the human arms, that are specialized for flight.
- talkiness — the quality or condition of being talky; wordiness
- tangolike — resembling or characteristic of tango music or dance
- tankering — a ship, airplane, or truck designed for bulk shipment of liquids or gases.
- technikon — a technical college
- the drink — the sea
- the koine — the Ancient Greek dialect that was the lingua franca of the empire of Alexander the Great and was widely used throughout the E Mediterranean area in Roman times
- thickener — something that thickens.