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11-letter words containing s, i, k

  • cousin jack — a Cornishman, especially a Cornish miner.
  • crank-sided — lopsided; askew.
  • credit risk — a person or institution judged to be unlikely to be able to repay a loan
  • crinkliness — The state or quality of being crinkly.
  • cryokinesis — The psychic ability to control and create ice and cold temperatures.
  • crystallike — a clear, transparent mineral or glass resembling ice.
  • cuckoo spit — a white frothy mass on the stems and leaves of many plants, produced by froghopper larvae (cuckoo spit insects), which feed on the plant juices
  • cuckoo-spit — Also called frog spit. a frothy secretion found on plants, exuded by the young of certain insects, as the froghoppers, and serving as a protective covering.
  • cuckoopints — Plural form of cuckoopint.
  • cyberskills — Skills in using computer technology.
  • cytokinesis — division of the cytoplasm of a cell, occurring at the end of mitosis or meiosis
  • das kapital — a work (1867) by Karl Marx, dealing with economic, social, and political relations within society and containing the tenets on which modern communism is based.
  • deck tennis — a game played on board ship in which a quoit is tossed to and fro across a high net on a small court resembling a tennis court
  • desk copier — a photocopier compact enough to fit on a desk, table, or similar surface.
  • desk editor — someone employed to read through newspaper text before publication to correct errors
  • dickcissels — Plural form of dickcissel.
  • disc jockey — a person who conducts a radio broadcast consisting of recorded music, informal talk, commercial announcements, etc.
  • disembarked — Simple past tense and past participle of disembark.
  • disembarkee — One who disembarks from a vessel such as an airplane or ship.
  • disfrocking — Present participle of disfrock.
  • disk flower — one of a number of small tubular flowers composing the disk of certain composite plants.
  • disk harrow — a harrow having a number of sharp-edged, concave disks set at such an angle that as the harrow is drawn along the ground they turn the soil, pulverize it, and destroy weeds.
  • disk jockey — radio host
  • disk sander — a sander that uses a revolving abrasive disk driven by an electric motor.
  • diskography — discography.
  • dislikeable — Alternative spelling of dislikable.
  • dislikeness — disparity
  • dock strike — an industrial dispute involving dock workers
  • dockmackies — Plural form of dockmackie.
  • dongle-disk — /don'gl disk/ (Or "key disk") A kind of dongle consisting of a special floppy disk that is required in order to perform some task. Some contain special coding that allows an application to identify it uniquely, others *are* special code that does something that normally-resident programs don't or can't. For example, AT&T's "Unix PC" would only come up in root mode with a special boot disk.
  • dressmaking — a person whose occupation is the making or alteration of women's dresses, coats, etc.
  • drillstocks — Plural form of drillstock.
  • dust kitten — a dust ball.
  • eksi sozluk — (web)   ("Sour Dictionary") An online, Turkish, colaborative, hypertext dictionary.
  • english oak — a species, Q. robur of the genus Quercus.
  • enkephalins — Plural form of enkephalin.
  • enniskillen — a town in SW Northern Ireland, in Fermanagh, on an island in the River Erne: scene of the defeat of James II's forces in 1689. Pop: 13 599 (2001)
  • eskimo roll — a manoeuvre that causes a kayak to return to an upright position after capsizing
  • fair-spoken — speaking or spoken in a courteous, civil, or plausible manner; smooth-spoken.
  • ferntickles — freckles
  • fiddlestick — anything; a bit: I don't care a fiddlestick for what they say.
  • fingermarks — Plural form of fingermark.
  • fingerpicks — Plural form of fingerpick.
  • finickiness — The quality of being finicky.
  • fish kettle — an oval pan used for cooking a whole fish
  • fish market — a market selling fish
  • fish tackle — a tackle for fishing an anchor.
  • fisher king — (in the story of Percival) the custodian of the Grail.
  • floppy disk — Computers. a thin plastic disk coated with magnetic material, on which computer data and programs can be stored for later retrieval.
  • flyspecking — A technique for painting furniture with flicked drops of paint.
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