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

  • speakeasies — a saloon or nightclub selling alcoholic beverages illegally, especially during Prohibition.
  • speakership — a person who speaks.
  • spike heath — a Eurasian evergreen shrub, Bruckenthalia spiculifolia, of the heath family, having narrow leaves and bell-shaped, pink flowers, growing in gritty soil.
  • spike heels — Spike heels are women's shoes with very high narrow heels.
  • 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.
  • spirketting — deck planking near the bulwarks
  • spitsticker — a wood-engraving tool with a fine prow-shaped point for cutting curved lines
  • spot strike — a labor strike by a local branch of a union.
  • sprinklered — having or protected by a sprinkler system.
  • squeakingly — in a squeaking manner
  • stalin peak — former name of Communism Peak.
  • steak diane — a steak served in a rich sauce
  • steak knife — a sharp dinner knife the blade of which is made of steel and usually serrated, used in cutting meat.
  • steelmaking — the manufacture of steel.
  • sterlitamak — a city in the Russian Federation in Europe, W of the Southern Urals.
  • stick style — a style in mid-Victorian American wooden architecture characterized by the use of vertical board siding with battens or grids of boards over horizontal siding to express the framing beneath.
  • 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.
  • sticky tape — adhesive strip
  • stiffnecked — having a stiff neck; having torticollis.
  • stink stone — any of various limestones that emit an unpleasant odor when scratched or struck.
  • stockinette — Also, stockinet. a stretchy, machine-knitted fabric used for making undergarments, infants' wear, etc.
  • strike back — retaliate
  • strike down — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
  • strike dumb — to amaze; astound; astonish
  • strike fire — to make a spark, as with tinder
  • strike fund — an amount of money reserved by a union to make payments to striking works should a strike occur
  • strike home — to deliver an effective blow
  • strike note — the note produced by a bell when struck, defining its musical pitch
  • strike slip — the component of slip on a fault parallel with the linear extension or strike of the fault.
  • 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.
  • strip poker — a game of poker in which the losers in a hand remove an article of clothing.
  • strip steak — cut of beef: sirloin
  • sucker bait — an enticement calculated to lure a person into a scheme in which he or she may be victimized.
  • sucker list — a list of names and addresses of persons considered by a business, charity organization, etc., to be likely purchasers or donors.
  • sunk relief — cavo-relievo.
  • super-slick — very well-executed or presented
  • superstrike — an exceptionally large strike
  • swiss steak — a thick slice of steak dredged in flour and pounded, browned, and braised with tomatoes, onions, and other vegetables.
  • swivelblock — a block that supports a swivel
  • system disk — the disk from which a computer boots up
  • take a risk — to proceed in an action without regard to the possibility of danger involved in it
  • take a shit — to defecate
  • take strike — (of a batsman) to prepare to play a ball delivered by the bowler
  • 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
  • telekinesis — psychokinesis.
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