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.