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9-letter words containing p, s, k

  • skip rope — A skip rope is a piece of rope, usually with handles at each end. You exercise or play with it by turning it around and around and jumping over it.
  • skip zone — a region surrounding a broadcasting station that cannot receive transmissions either directly or by reflection off the ionosphere
  • skip-bomb — to attack (a target) by skip bombing.
  • skippable — able to be skipped, omitted, or passed over without loss; unimportant.
  • skull cap — A skull cap is a small close-fitting cap.
  • skull-cap — a small, brimless close-fitting cap, often made of silk or velvet, worn on the crown of the head, as for religious functions.
  • sky pilot — a member of the clergy, especially a chaplain of the armed forces.
  • sky-pilot — a member of the clergy, especially a chaplain of the armed forces.
  • slapstick — broad comedy characterized by boisterous action, as the throwing of pies in actors' faces, mugging, and obvious farcical situations and jokes.
  • sleeplike — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
  • sleepwalk — to engage in sleepwalking.
  • slip hook — pelican hook.
  • slipstick — slide rule.
  • slop sink — a deep sink for emptying slop pails and the like.
  • smoke pot — a can of chemicals that produces a great quantity of smoke when ignited.
  • snake pit — a mental hospital marked by squalor and inhumane or indifferent care for the patients.
  • snap back — a sudden rebound or recovery.
  • snap link — a link with a latchlike opening through which another link or catch can be fitted.
  • soopstake — sweeping up all stakes
  • spacewalk — a task or mission performed by an astronaut outside a spacecraft in space.
  • spadelike — resembling a spade
  • spadework — preliminary or initial work, such as the gathering of data, on which further activity is to be based.
  • spar deck — the upper deck of a vessel, extending from stem to stern.
  • spark gap — a space between two electrodes, across which a discharge of electricity may take place.
  • spark off — cause, provoke
  • sparkless — having no spark
  • sparkling — to issue in or as if in little sparks, as fire or light: The candlelight sparkled in the crystal.
  • sparkover — spark1 (def 2).
  • sparkplug — to lead, inspire, or animate something or someone.
  • speak for — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
  • speak out — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
  • speakable — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
  • speakeasy — a saloon or nightclub selling alcoholic beverages illegally, especially during Prohibition.
  • spearlike — resembling a spear
  • special k — an animal anaesthetic, ketamine hydrochloride, sold illegally as a hallucinogenic drug
  • speckless — having no specks or dirt
  • speedwalk — an endless conveyor belt, moving walk, or the like used to transport standing persons from place to place.
  • spelunked — to explore caves, especially as a hobby.
  • spelunker — a person who explores caves, especially as a hobby.
  • 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)
  • spikedace — a scaleless, mottled, olive-brown fish, Meda fulgida, of the Gila River system in New Mexico and Arizona, having two dorsal spines.
  • spikefish — a large sea fish
  • spikelike — resembling a spike
  • spikenard — an aromatic, Indian plant, Nardostachys jatamansi, of the valerian family, believed to be the nard of the ancients.
  • spillikin — a jackstraw.
  • 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.
  • spoke-dog — a stick used by wheelwrights to force the outer ends of spokes into the rim or felloe.
  • spokeless — one of the bars, rods, or rungs radiating from the hub or nave of a wheel and supporting the rim or felloe.
  • spokesman — a person who speaks for another or for a group.
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