9-letter words containing n, k, o, s
- snookered — a variety of pool played with 15 red balls and 6 balls of colors other than red, in which a player must shoot one of the red balls, each with a point value of 1, into a pocket before shooting at one of the other balls, with point values of from 2 to 7.
- snow bank — a long raised mass of fallen snow
- snowblink — a white luminosity on the underside of clouds, caused by the reflection of light from a snow surface.
- snowflake — one of the small, feathery masses or flakes in which snow falls.
- snowmaker — a machine that makes artificial snow for ski slopes.
- soakingly — so as to saturate or soak
- socked in — to strike or hit hard.
- soil bank — a plan providing cash payments to farmers who cut production of certain surplus crops in favor of soil-enriching ones.
- sokemanry — tenure of land subject to the soke of someone else.
- solonchak — a type of intrazonal soil of arid regions with a greyish surface crust: contains large quantities of soluble salts
- sooterkin — the mythical black afterbirth of Dutch women that was believed to result from their warming themselves on stoves
- spokesman — a person who speaks for another or for a group.
- springbok — a gazelle, Antidorcas marsupialis, of southern Africa, noted for its habit of springing into the air when alarmed.
- stakhanov — a city in E Ukraine, W of Lugnask.
- stenokous — able to live or survive only within a limited range of environments
- stink out — to emit a strong offensive smell.
- stinkaroo — something markedly inferior in quality: a stinkaroo of a motion picture.
- stinkeroo — a bad or contemptible person or thing
- stinkhorn — any of various rank-smelling, brown-capped mushrooms of the genus Phallus, especially P. impudicus.
- stinkwood — any of several trees yielding fetid wood.
- stockhorn — pibgorn.
- stockinet — Also, stockinet. a stretchy, machine-knitted fabric used for making undergarments, infants' wear, etc.
- stonework — any construction, as walls or the like, of stone; stone masonry.
- stonkered — to hit hard; knock unconscious.
- stop knob — stop (def 31d).
- sun block — a substance that provides a high degree of protection against sunburn, often preventing most tanning as well as burning, as by obstructing the penetration of ultraviolet rays.
- sunk cost — A sunk cost is an expense that you have already paid for or committed to and which you cannot change.
- sunstroke — a sudden and sometimes fatal affection due to exposure to the sun's rays or to excessive heat, marked by prostration with or without fever, convulsion, and coma.
- synkaryon — a nucleus formed by the fusion of two preexisting nuclei.
- synoekete — an insect that lives in the nests of social insects, esp ants, without receiving any attentions from the inmates
- thanks to — to express gratitude, appreciation, or acknowledgment to: She thanked them for their hospitality.
- tok pisin — Neo-Melanesian.
- tonkinese — a breed of medium-sized cat with almond-shaped aqua-coloured eyes and a soft silky coat
- townsfolk — citizens, local people
- tsakonian — a modern Greek dialect spoken on the east coast of the Peloponnesus, descended from the Laconian dialect of ancient Sparta.
- ulyanovsk — a city in the W Russian Federation, on the Volga River: birthplace of Lenin.
- unbespoke — not prearranged
- unbookish — not studious or bookish
- unshocked — not shocked
- unstocked — not having stock or stores
- urokinase — an enzyme, present in the blood and urine of mammals, that activates plasminogen and is used medicinally to dissolve blood clots.
- veldskoen — an ankle-length boot of soft but strong rawhide
- wilkinson — Geoffrey, 1921–96, British chemist: Nobel prize 1973.
- windsocks — Plural form of windsock.
- wonkiness — The state or condition of being wonky.
- work song — a folk song sung by workers, with a rhythm like that of their work.
- wronskian — the determinant of order n associated with a set of n functions, in which the first row consists of the functions, the second row consists of the first derivatives of the functions, the third row consists of their second derivatives, and so on.
- zákinthos — one of the southernmost islands of the Ionian Islands, Greece: 155 sq mi (401 sq km)
- zakynthos — Greek name of Zante.