8-letter words containing s, i, l, k
- sicklied — not strong; unhealthy; ailing.
- sicklily — in a sickly way
- sidelock — earlock.
- sidewalk — a walk, especially a paved one, at the side of a street or road.
- sighlike — resembling a sigh
- silk hat — a tall, cylindrical, black hat covered with silk plush, worn by men for formal dress. Compare beaver1 (def 4), opera hat, top hat.
- silk oak — any of several Australian trees of the genus Grevillea, especially G. robusta, having feathery, fernlike leaves and showy orange or yellow flowers, grown as a street tree in Florida and California.
- silktail — the waxwing
- silkweed — any milkweed, the pods of which contain a silky down.
- silkworm — the larva of the Chinese silkworm moth, Bombyx mori, which spins a cocoon of commercially valuable silk.
- sillcock — hosecock.
- sinkable — to displace part of the volume of a supporting substance or object and become totally or partially submerged or enveloped; fall or descend into or below the surface or to the bottom (often followed by in or into): The battleship sank within two hours. His foot sank in the mud. Her head sinks into the pillows.
- sinkhole — a hole formed in soluble rock by the action of water, serving to conduct surface water to an underground passage.
- sinkless — unsinkable, as a ship.
- ski lift — a conveyance that carries skiers up the side of a slope, consisting typically of a series of chairs suspended from an endless cable driven by motors.
- ski pole — a slender pole or stick, usually with a metal point at one end, a loop for the hand at the other, and a disk near the lower end to prevent its sinking into snow, used in skiing to gain momentum, maintain balance, execute certain jumps, etc.
- skil saw — a portable electric saw
- skilfish — a sablefish, Erilepsis zonifer, of the North Pacific.
- skilless — without skill; unskilled or unskillful.
- skillful — having or exercising skill: a skillful juggler.
- skilling — skillion.
- skillion — a lean-to serving as a room or a shed.
- skimpily — lacking in size, fullness, etc.; scanty: a skimpy hem; a skimpy dinner.
- skinless — deprived of skin: a skinless carcass.
- skiplane — an airplane equipped with skis to enable it to land on and take off from snow.
- skirling — the sound of a bagpipe.
- skittles — skittles, (used with a singular verb) ninepins in which a wooden ball or disk is used to knock down the pins.
- skulking — to lie or keep in hiding, as for some evil reason: The thief skulked in the shadows.
- skylight — an opening in a roof or ceiling, fitted with glass, for admitting daylight.
- slablike — resembling a slab
- slacking — not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
- sleswick — Schleswig.
- slick up — to make sleek or smooth.
- slickest — smooth and glossy; sleek.
- slinking — to move or go in a furtive, abject manner, as from fear, cowardice, or shame.
- slipknot — a knot that slips easily along the cord or line around which it is made.
- slitlike — to cut apart or open along a line; make a long cut, fissure, or opening in.
- slovakia — a republic in central Europe: formerly a part of Czechoslovakia; under German protection 1939–45; independent since 1993. 18,931 sq. mi. (49,035 sq. km). Capital: Bratislava.
- snarkily — in an irritable or snarky manner
- sneakily — like or suggestive of a sneak; furtive; deceitful.
- souplike — resembling or characteristic of soup
- souvlaki — a dish similar to shish kebab made with lamb.
- soy milk — liquid obtained from soybeans
- sparkily — in a sparky manner
- sparlike — resembling a spar
- spikelet — a small or secondary spike in grasses; one of the flower clusters, the unit of inflorescence, consisting of two or more flowers and subtended by one or more glumes variously disposed around a common axis.
- spookily — like or befitting a spook or ghost; suggestive of spooks.
- sprinkle — to scatter (a liquid, powder, etc.) in drops or particles: She sprinkled powder on the baby.
- stalinsk — former name of Novokuznetsk.
- stalking — an act or course of stalking quarry, prey, or the like: We shot the mountain goat after a five-hour stalk.