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11-letter words containing r, i, s, k, n, e

  • nonstrikers — Plural form of nonstriker.
  • oyster pink — a delicate pinkish-white colour, sometimes with a greyish tinge
  • persnickety — overparticular; fussy.
  • pyrokinesis — the ability to set objects or people on fire through the concentration of psychic power.
  • rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
  • re-skinning — to replace or repair the exterior surface or coating of: The space shuttle had to be reskinned before returning to service.
  • rent strike — a temporary, organized refusal by tenants, as of an apartment building, to pay their rent, as in protest over inadequate services.
  • ringstraked — ring-streaked.
  • serpentlike — resembling a serpent
  • shark siren — a siren sounded to warn swimmers of the presence of sharks
  • sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
  • shriekingly — with shrieking
  • silk-screen — Silk-screen printing is a method of printing patterns onto cloth by forcing paint or dyes through silk or similar material.
  • singletrack — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
  • skillcentre — an institution providing vocational training or retraining for employed or unemployed people
  • skin cancer — melanoma: malignant tumour
  • skin-search — strip-search.
  • skinner box — a box used in experiments in animal learning, especially in operant conditioning, equipped with a mechanism that automatically gives the animal food or other reward or permits escape, as by opening a door.
  • skunk river — a river in central Iowa, flowing SE to the Mississippi River. 264 miles (425 km) long.
  • snake river — a river flowing from NW Wyoming through S Idaho into the Columbia River in SE Washington: Shoshone Falls. 1038 miles (1670 km) long.
  • snickersnee — a knife, especially one used as a weapon.
  • snickometer — a device, which uses sound waves recorded by the stump microphone, employed by TV commentators to determine whether or not a batsman has made contact with the ball
  • snorkelling — the activity of swimming with a snorkel
  • spirketting — deck planking near the bulwarks
  • sprinklered — having or protected by a sprinkler system.
  • strike down — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
  • strike fund — an amount of money reserved by a union to make payments to striking works should a strike occur
  • strike note — the note produced by a bell when struck, defining its musical pitch
  • strike zone — the area above home plate extending from the batter's knees to his or her shoulders.
  • strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
  • sunk relief — cavo-relievo.
  • thanksgiver — a person who gives thanks.
  • tiger snake — either of two highly venomous snakes, Notechis scutatus and N. ater, of Australia and Tasmania, that grow to a length of 5 feet (1.5 meters).
  • unsprinkled — not sprinkled, esp not baptized
  • visbreaking — Visbreaking is thermal cracking, when the vacuum residue is less viscous and it can then be used to produce valuable products.
  • warlikeness — the state of being warlike
  • waterskiing — Alternative spelling of water skiing.
  • whiskerando — a man with extravagant whiskers
  • winterkills — Plural form of winterkill.
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