10-letter words containing n, i, k, y
- pickaninny — a term used to refer to a black child.
- piggy bank — a small bank, having the shape of a pig, provided with a slot at the top to receive small coins.
- pikeblenny — any of several tropical American clinid fishes of the genus Chaenopsis, as C. ocellata (bluethroat pikeblenny) the male of which is noted for its aggressive behavior in defending its territory.
- pink floyd — British rock group, formed in 1966: originally comprised Syd Barrett (1946–2006), Roger Waters (born 1944), Rick Wright (1945–2008), and Nick Mason (born 1945); Barrett was replaced by Dave Gilmour (born 1944) in 1968 and Waters left in 1986. Recordings include The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967), Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), and The Wall (1979)
- playmaking — the initiating of offensive plays in sports
- prankingly — showily, in an ostentatious or pranking manner
- prankishly — in a prankish manner, mischievously
- rebukingly — in a severe and disapproving manner
- rinky-dink — inconsequential, amateurish, or of generally inferior quality; small-time: a rinky-dink college; He plays with some rinky-dink team.
- shakyamuni — Sakyamuni.
- shockingly — causing intense surprise, disgust, horror, etc.
- shylockian — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
- shylocking — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
- skimmingly — by way of skimming; superficially
- skimpingly — in a manner marked by skimpiness
- skinny-dip — to swim in the nude.
- skippingly — in the manner of a skip
- skulkingly — in the manner of a skulk
- sky diving — the sport of jumping from an airplane and executing free-fall maneuvers before opening the parachute, often at the last possible moment
- skyjacking — an act or instance of hijacking an aircraft.
- skylarking — a brown-speckled European lark, Alauda arvensis, famed for its melodious song.
- skysurfing — a sport that is similar to skydiving but uses a special lightweight board (skyboard) attached to the feet and usually equipped with a parachute.
- skywriting — the act or technique of writing against the sky with chemically produced smoke released from a maneuvering airplane.
- skywritten — created by the process of skywriting
- snake lily — a Californian plant, Dichelostemma volubile, of the amaryllis family, having a twining stem and an umbel of rose-red or pink flowers.
- sneakingly — acting in a furtive or underhand way.
- sneakishly — in a stealthy or underhanded manner
- spankingly — in a spanking manner
- speakingly — in an eloquent manner
- sticky bun — honey bun (def 1).
- sticky end — a single-stranded end of DNA or RNA having a nucleotide base sequence complementary to that of another strand, enabling the two strands to be connected by base pairing: produced in the laboratory with the use of restriction enzymes for genetic engineering purposes.
- stravinsky — Igor Fëdorovich [ee-gawr fyaw-duh-roh-vich;; Russian ee-guh r fyaw-duh-ruh-vyich] /ˈi gɔr ˌfyɔ dəˈroʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian ˈi gər ˈfyɔ də rə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1971, U.S. composer, born in Russia.
- strikingly — attractive; impressive: a scene of striking beauty.
- tanganyika — a former country in E Africa: formed the larger part of German East Africa; British trusteeship (Tanganyika Territory) 1946–61; became independent 1961; now the mainland part of Tanzania. 361,800 sq. mi. (937,062 sq. km).
- thinkingly — in a thinking or conscious manner
- tiddlywink — Tiddlywinks is a game in which the players try to make small round pieces of plastic jump into a container, by pressing their edges with a larger piece of plastic.
- tinklingly — in a tinkling manner
- tuning key — a device that may be placed over a wrest pin on a piano, etc, and turned to alter the tension and pitch of a string
- ungimmicky — not gimmicky
- unknightly — unworthy of a knight.
- unladylike — like a lady.
- waymarking — A recreational activity involving the finding and logging of points of interest, usually with a GPS receiver and digital camera.
- yenakiyevo — a city in E Ukraine: suburb of Donetsk.
- yukon time — the civil time officially adopted for a country or region, usually the civil time of some specific meridian lying within the region. The standard time zones in the U.S. (Atlantic time, Eastern time, Central time, Mountain time, Pacific time, Yukon time, Alaska-Hawaii time, and Bering time) use the civil times of the 60th, 75th, 90th, 105th, 120th, 135th, 150th, and 165th meridians respectively, the difference of time between one zone and the next being exactly one hour.