7-letter words containing o, s, k
- sorokin — Pitirim Alexandrovitch [pi-ti-reem al-ig-zan-druh-vich,, -zahn-;; Russian pyi-tyi-ryeem uh-lyi-ksahn-druh-vyich] /pɪ tɪˈrim ˌæl ɪgˈzæn drə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian pyɪ tyɪˈryim ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1889–1968, U.S. sociologist, born in Russia.
- soukous — a style of central African popular dance music with electric guitars, Caribbean rhythms, and often several vocalists.
- sourock — a Scots name for the sorrel plant
- souslik — suslik.
- sovetsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Kaliningrad on the Nemen River: formerly in East Prussia; peace treaty (1807) between France, Prussia, and Russia.
- sovkhoz — (in the former U.S.S.R) a state-owned wage-paying farm.
- soyinka — Wole [woh-ley] /ˈwoʊ leɪ/ (Show IPA), born 1934, Nigerian playwright, novelist, and poet: Nobel prize 1986.
- soymilk — a milk substitute made from soya
- spokane — a city in E Washington.
- spoking — a simple past tense of speak.
- spooked — Informal. a ghost; specter.
- stenoky — the ability of an organism to live or survive only within a limited range of environments
- stocker — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- stoking — to poke, stir up, and feed (a fire).
- stokvel — an informal savings pool or syndicate, usually among Black people, in which funds are contributed in rotation, allowing participants lump sums for family needs (esp funerals)
- stonker — to hit hard; knock unconscious.
- stooker — shock2 (def 1).
- stookie — stucco
- stroker — someone or something that strokes
- strooke — a stroke
- suffolk — a county in E England. 1470 sq. mi. (3805 sq. km).
- sukarno — Achmed [ahk-med] /ˈɑk mɛd/ (Show IPA), 1901–1970, Indonesian statesman: president of the Republic of Indonesia 1945–67.
- sukkoth — a Jewish festival beginning on the 15th day of the month of Tishri and celebrated for nine days by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside of Israel and for eight days by Reform Jews and by Jews in Israel that celebrates the harvest and commemorates the period during which the Jews wandered in the wilderness after the Exodus, marked by the building of sukkoth.
- swonken — past participle of swink.
- szolnok — a city in central Hungary, at the confluence of the Tisza and Zagyva rivers.
- tobolsk — a town in the W Russian Federation in Asia, on the Irtysh River at its confluence with the Tobol.
- towsack — South Midland and Southern U.S. gunnysack.
- trotsky — Leon (Lev or Leib, Davidovich Bronstein) 1879–1940, Russian revolutionary and writer: minister of war 1918–25.
- tussock — a tuft or clump of growing grass or the like.
- unkelos — Onkelos.
- unstock — to remove the stock from (a gun)
- voetsek — an expression of dismissal or rejection
- voskhod — one of a series of Soviet spacecraft, carrying two or three cosmonauts.
- vxworks — (operating system) A real-time multitasking operating system from Wind River Systems. Originally it used the VRTX kernel but this has been replaced by Wind River's own "Wind kernel 2.4". Before version 5.3 VxWorks included a software development environment but this is now called "Tornado".
- winsock — Windows sockets
- wonkish — a student who spends much time studying and has little or no social life; grind.
- workers — Plural form of worker.
- workshy — (British) Disinclined to work; lazy.
- worksop — a town in N central England, in N Nottinghamshire. Pop: 39 072 (2001)
- workups — Plural form of workup.
- yonkers — a city in SE New York, on the Hudson, near New York City.
- yorkers — Plural form of yorker.
- yorkist — an adherent or member of the royal family of York, especially in the Wars of the Roses.
- zagorsk — former name (1930–91) of Sergiyev Posad.
- zedonks — Plural form of zedonk.
- zonkers — Plural form of zonker.