11-letter words containing s, i, k, e
- shitkickers — an unsophisticated farmer, cowboy, or other rural person; country person.
- shopkeeping — a retail merchant or tradesman; a person who owns or operates a small store or shop.
- shriekingly — with shrieking
- sickishness — the state of being sickish
- sickle cell — an abnormal red blood cell having an elongated, crescentlike shape due to the presence of an abnormal hemoglobin.
- sidetracked — any railroad track, other than a siding, auxiliary to the main track.
- sidewalking — the practice of shopkeepers standing on the sidewalk outside their shops to attract customers.
- sienkiewicz — Henryk [hen-rik] /ˈhɛn rɪk/ (Show IPA), 1846–1916, Polish novelist: Nobel prize 1905.
- silk thread — thread that is manufactured from silk
- silk-screen — Silk-screen printing is a method of printing patterns onto cloth by forcing paint or dyes through silk or similar material.
- silk-tassel — any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Garrya, of the western U.S., having evergreen foliage and flowers in pendulous catkins.
- silver book — (publication) Jensen and Wirth's infamous "Pascal User Manual and Report", so called because of the silver cover of the widely distributed Springer-Verlag second edition of 1978 (ISBN 0-387-90144-2). See also book titles, Pascal.
- silver hake — a common hake, Merluccius bilinearis, occurring off the Atlantic coast of North America and popular as a food fish.
- simnel cake — any of several kinds of rich fruitcake covered with almond paste.
- single knot — overhand knot.
- single-knit — a fabric made on warp knit.
- singlestick — a short, heavy stick.
- 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.
- skatemobile — a scooterlike vehicle built of boxes, boards, or the like, and mounted on skate wheels.
- skeletonize — to reduce to a skeleton, outline, or framework.
- skeptically — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
- sketchiness — like a sketch; giving only outlines or essentials. Synonyms: cursory, rough, meager, crude.
- skillcentre — an institution providing vocational training or retraining for employed or unemployed people
- skilligalee — gruel
- skin cancer — melanoma: malignant tumour
- skin effect — the phenomenon in which an alternating current tends to concentrate in the outer layer of a conductor, caused by the self-induction of the conductor and resulting in increased resistance.
- 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.
- skip tracer — an investigator whose job is to locate missing persons, especially debtors.
- skirt steak — a thin cut of beef taken from the plate or, sometimes, from the diaphragm
- skittle out — to dismiss (batsmen) quickly
- skunk river — a river in central Iowa, flowing SE to the Mississippi River. 264 miles (425 km) long.
- slaked lime — another name for calcium hydroxide, esp when made by adding water to calcium oxide
- sleeve link — cuff link.
- slickenside — a rock surface that has become more or less polished and striated by slippage along a fault plane.
- slit pocket — a pocket on the underside of a garment, reached through a vertical opening
- smoke point — heat at which oil gives off smoke
- smoke-dried — to dry or cure (meat or other food) using smoke.
- smoky river — a river in W central Alberta, Canada, flowing N to the Peace River. 250 miles (402 km) long.
- snake juice — any strong alcoholic drink, esp when home-made
- 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.
- snakishness — the state or quality of being like a snake
- sneak thief — a burglar who sneaks into houses through open doors, windows, etc.
- 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
- sockdoliger — a conclusive argument; a hard blow
- soldierlike — resembling a soldier
- sound-alike — a person or thing that resembles another in sound
- soured milk — milk that has been deliberately soured by fermentation or by adding acids such as lemon juice or vinegar, to be used in cooking