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

  • pot sticker — a pan-fried and steamed Chinese dumpling with a ground meat or vegetable filling.
  • prick-tease — a woman who is sexually provocative but refuses to engage in sexual activity
  • puckishness — the state of being puckish
  • pumpkinseed — the seed of the pumpkin.
  • punji stake — a sharp bamboo stake concealed in high grass at an angle so as to gash the feet and legs of enemy soldiers and often coated with excrement so as to cause an infected wound.
  • pyrokinesis — the ability to set objects or people on fire through the concentration of psychic power.
  • quicksilver — the metallic element mercury.
  • rail strike — a strike by railway workers
  • 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.
  • reeled silk — a long strand made of silk reeled from a number of cocoons and not twisted or thrown. Compare spun silk (def 1).
  • rent strike — a temporary, organized refusal by tenants, as of an apartment building, to pay their rent, as in protest over inadequate services.
  • rickettsial — any member of the genus Rickettsia, comprising rod-shaped to coccoid microorganisms that resemble bacteria but can be as small as a large virus and reproduce only inside a living cell, parasitic in fleas, ticks, lice, and mites and transmitted by bite to vertebrate hosts, including humans, causing such severe diseases as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
  • rijksmuseum — a museum in Amsterdam housing the national art collection of the Netherlands
  • ringstraked — ring-streaked.
  • risk-averse — reluctant to take risks; tending to avoid risks as much as possible: risk-averse entrepreneurs.
  • rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
  • rollicksome — rollicking; frolicsome.
  • rye whiskey — rye1 (defs 4, 5).
  • sabine lake — a shallow lake on the boundary between Texas and Louisiana, formed by a widening of the Sabine River. About 17 miles (27 km) long; 7 miles (11 km) wide.
  • safekeeping — the act of keeping safe or the state of being kept safe; protection; care; custody.
  • sandia peak — a mountain in N central New Mexico in the Sandia Mountains. 10,678 feet (3255 meters).
  • sato eisaku — 1901–75, Japanese statesman: prime minister (1964–72). During his term of office Japan became a major economic power. He shared the Nobel peace prize (1974) for opposing the proliferation of nuclear weapons
  • schick test — a diphtheria immunity test in which diphtheria toxoid is injected intracutaneously, nonimmunity being indicated by an inflammation at the injection site.
  • schmierkase — cottage cheese.
  • schrecklich — frightful or horrible
  • scissorlike — like scissors; moving, operating, or crossing in a manner suggesting the blades of scissors.
  • seasickness — nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, resulting from the rocking or swaying motion of a vessel in which one is traveling at sea.
  • secchi disk — an opaque, white or black-and-white disk used to measure the cloudiness or turbidity of ocean water by the point at which it is no longer visible from the surface.
  • self-making — the act of a person or thing that makes: The making of a violin requires great skill.
  • selkirk rex — a breed of large curly-haired cat
  • semi-weekly — occurring, done, appearing, or published twice a week: semiweekly visits.
  • semiskilled — having or requiring more training and skill than unskilled labor but less than skilled labor.
  • septic tank — a tank in which solid organic sewage is decomposed and purified by anaerobic bacteria.
  • serpentlike — resembling a serpent
  • sewing silk — finely twisted silk thread used for sewing, embroidery, etc.
  • sex linkage — an association between genes in sex chromosomes such that the characteristics determined by these genes appear more frequently in one sex than in the other.
  • sex-linkage — an association between genes in sex chromosomes such that the characteristics determined by these genes appear more frequently in one sex than in the other.
  • shake on it — to shake hands in agreement, reconciliation, etc
  • shark siren — a siren sounded to warn swimmers of the presence of sharks
  • shellacking — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
  • sheriffwick — shrievalty.
  • sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
  • shimonoseki — a seaport on SW Honshu, in SW Japan: treaty ending Sino-Japanese War signed 1895.
  • shingle oak — an oak, Quercus imbricaria, yielding a wood used for shingles, clapboards, etc.
  • ship-broker — a person who acts for a shipowner by getting cargo and passengers for his ships and also handling insurance and other matters
  • shipwrecked — the destruction or loss of a ship, as by sinking.
  • shirtjacket — a jacket styled like a shirt
  • shish kebab — meat on skewer
  • shish-kebab — to broil or roast food on a skewer.
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