11-letter words containing s, i, a, l, k
- slacklining — the activity of walking across a narrow line of synthetic webbing hung slackly above the ground
- slacktivism — actions taken to bring about political or social change but requiring only minimal commitment, effort, or risk: students engaging in slacktivism by signing an online petition.
- slaked lime — another name for calcium hydroxide, esp when made by adding water to calcium oxide
- social work — organized work directed toward the betterment of social conditions in the community, as by seeking to improve the condition of the poor, to promote the welfare of children, etc.
- sound-alike — a person or thing that resembles another in sound
- sparklingly — in a sparkling manner
- spinachlike — resembling or characteristic of spinach
- spirit lake — a lake in SW Washington, at the N foot of Mount St. Helens: site of devastation during 1980 eruptions of Mount St. Helens.
- squeakingly — in a squeaking manner
- stalin peak — former name of Communism Peak.
- steelmaking — the manufacture of steel.
- sterlitamak — a city in the Russian Federation in Europe, W of the Southern Urals.
- stick float — a float attached at the top and bottom to the line
- stickhandle — (in hockey and lacrosse) to control and skillfully maneuver the ball or puck with the stick.
- stickleader — a person assigned to check the appearance or condition of each person in a stick
- stickleback — any of the small, pugnacious, spiny-backed fishes of the family Gasterosteidae, inhabiting northern fresh waters and sea inlets, the male of which builds and guards the nest.
- taking lens — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
- tardis-like — having an interior that is more spacious than could be imagined from looking at the outside
- thread silk — silk yarn produced by a silk throwster.
- travel-sick — nauseated from riding in a moving vehicle
- visualworks — (language) A modern commercial implementation of the Smalltalk programming language. VisualWorks descends directly from the original Smalltalk-80 by Xerox PARC and was originally developed (for some time under the name Objectworks\Smalltalk) by ParcPlace Systems. VisualWorks relies on dynamic translation as its virtual machine technology.
- vladivostok — a seaport in the SE Russian Federation in Asia, on the Sea of Japan: eastern terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railroad.
- wake island — an island in the N Pacific, belonging to the U.S.: air base. 3 sq. mi. (8 sq. km).
- walking bus — a group of schoolchildren walking together along an agreed route to and from school, accompanied by adults, with children joining and leaving the group at prearranged points
- warlikeness — the state of being warlike
- wilkes land — a coastal region of Antarctica, S of Australia.
- willowwacks — a wooded, uninhabited area.
- workaholics — Plural form of workaholic.
- workaholism — a person who works compulsively at the expense of other pursuits.
- yeşil irmak — a river in N Turkey, flowing northwest to the Black Sea. Length: 418 km (260 miles)