10-letter words containing s, a, n, k
- run a risk — exposure to the chance of injury or loss; a hazard or dangerous chance: It's not worth the risk.
- sailmaking — the craft or profession of making of sails
- saint luke — a fellow worker of Paul and a physician (Colossians 4:14). Feast day: Oct 18
- sand crack — a crack or fissure in the hoof of a horse, extending from the coronet downward toward the sole, caused by a dryness of horn.
- sand shark — sand tiger.
- sandsucker — the flatfish Platessa limandoides
- sandy hook — a peninsula in E New Jersey, at the entrance to lower New York Bay. 6 miles (10 km) long.
- sanskritic — an Indo-European, Indic language, in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India. Abbreviation: Skt.
- scarf-skin — the outermost layer of the skin; epidermis.
- scent-mark — to deposit a scent mark; mark.
- scharwenka — (Ludwig) Philipp [loot-vikh fee-lip] /ˈlut vɪx ˈfi lɪp/ (Show IPA), 1847–1917, German composer.
- scrimshank — to avoid one's obligations or share of work; shirk.
- seakeeping — the ability of a vessel to endure rough conditions at sea and navigate safely during long storms.
- seamanlike — like or befitting a seaman; showing good seamanship.
- semi-naked — being without clothing or covering; nude: naked children swimming in the lake.
- shackleton — Sir Ernest Henry, 1874–1922, English explorer of the Antarctic.
- shake down — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
- shake-down — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
- shakuntala — Sakuntala.
- shakyamuni — Sakyamuni.
- shankpiece — a piece of metal or fiber for giving form to the shank of a shoe.
- sheepshank — a kind of knot, hitch, or bend made on a rope to shorten it temporarily.
- shotmaking — the playing of good shots (by a sports player)
- shrinkpack — flexible plastic used for shrink-wrapping goods
- shylockian — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
- silk gland — any of several glands, as in various insects and spiders, that secrete a viscid protein substance which hardens into silk on contact with air.
- sinkerball — sinker (def 5).
- skid chain — a chain fitting over the tire of a car, truck, or other vehicle, to increase traction and prevent skidding on roads covered with ice or snow.
- skin alive — the external covering or integument of an animal body, especially when soft and flexible.
- skin graft — skin used for transplanting in skin grafting.
- skin patch — an adhesive patch stuck to the skin to slowly and steadily release medicine into the bloodstream
- skinnerian — a psychologist who follows behaviorist theories developed by B. F. Skinner.
- skyjacking — an act or instance of hijacking an aircraft.
- skylarking — a brown-speckled European lark, Alauda arvensis, famed for its melodious song.
- slackening — an act of becoming looser
- slammerkin — a woman's loose dress
- sling-back — Also called sling. a woman's shoe with an open back and a strap or sling encircling the heel of the foot to keep the shoe secure.
- smack down — to humble or reprimand (someone who is overstepping bounds)
- snail kite — a bird of prey, Rostrhamus sociabilis, that travels in flocks in the American tropics and feeds on snails.
- snake eyes — a cast of two; two aces.
- snake foot — an elongated foot or short leg, as to a pedestal table, having the form of an ogee tangent to the floor surface.
- snake lily — a Californian plant, Dichelostemma volubile, of the amaryllis family, having a twining stem and an umbel of rose-red or pink flowers.
- snakemouth — rose pogonia.
- snakestone — a piece of porous material popularly supposed to neutralize the toxic effect of a snakebite.
- snarkiness — testy or irritable; short.
- sneakernet — Facetious. the transfer of electronic information by carrying the storage medium, especially a floppy disk, from one computer to another.
- sneakingly — acting in a furtive or underhand way.
- sneakishly — in a stealthy or underhanded manner
- snowmaking — the creation of artificial snow at ski areas.
- soundalike — a person or thing that sounds like another, especially a better known or more famous prototype: a whole spate of Elvis Presley soundalikes.