13-letter words containing s, i, n, k
- pannikin boss — an overseer of a small group of workers; person with minor authority.
- parking strip — Chiefly Upper Midwest and Western U.S. parkway (def 2).
- phosphokinase — an increase in the amount of creatine phosphokinase that is released into the bloodstream when a muscle becomes injured
- pick holes in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- picnic basket — woven container for carrying food outdoors
- pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
- pinellas park — a city in W central Florida.
- prick-teasing — the behaviour of a prick-tease
- printer's ink — a type of quick-drying ink used in printing
- psychokinesis — the purported ability to move or deform inanimate objects, as metal spoons, through mental processes.
- quaking aspen — any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
- quaking grass — any of several grasses of the genus Briza, having spikelets with slender, drooping stalks.
- question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
- quick-setting — setting quickly, as a cement, paint, or gelatin.
- quickstepping — Present participle of quickstep.
- radhakrishnan — Sir Sarvepalli [suhr-vuh-puhl-ee] /ˌsʌr vəˈpʌl i/ (Show IPA), 1888–1975, president of India 1962–67.
- rainbow snake — a burrowing snake, Farancia erytrogramma, of the southeastern U.S., having red and black stripes along the body, a red and yellow underside, and a sharp-tipped tail used in maneuvering prey.
- raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
- rankine scale — William John Macquorn [muh-kwawrn] /məˈkwɔrn/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, Scottish engineer and physicist.
- ratushinskaya — Irina (ɪˈriːnə). born 1954, Russian poet and writer: imprisoned (1983–86) in a Soviet labour camp on charges of subversion. Her publications include Poems (1984), Grey is the Colour of Hope (1988), and The Odessans (1992)
- ring-streaked — having streaks or bands of color around the body.
- risk analysis — A risk analysis is a process of deciding how likely it is that injury, damage, or loss will happen, and what the effects will be if it does happen.
- risk aversion — a strong disinclination to take risks
- roasting jack — a rotating spit for roasting meat on
- rocking horse — a toy horse, as of wood, mounted on rockers or springs, on which children may ride; hobbyhorse.
- rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
- rocking stone — any fairly large rock so situated on its base that slight forces can cause it to move or sway.
- rolling stock — the wheeled vehicles of a railroad, including locomotives, freight cars, and passenger cars.
- rosenkavalier — an opera (1911) by Richard Strauss.
- sadie hawkins — Also called Sadie, Sadies. a party, dance, or other social event, especially one held annually among high school or college students, to which each girl escorts the boy of her choice, or invites him to escort her.
- san luis peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,014 feet (4271 meters).
- sanction mark — a mark on pieces of 19th-century French furniture signifying that the piece met the quality standards required by the Parisian guild of ebonists
- sandwich cake — a cake that is made up of two or more layers with a jam or other filling
- scanning disk — (in mechanical scanning) a disk with a line of holes spiraling in from its edge, rotated in front of a surface so as to expose a small segment as each hole passes before it for transmitting or reproducing a picture.
- season ticket — a ticket for a specified series or number of events or valid for unlimited use during a specified time, often sold at a reduced rate, for athletic events, concerts, transportation, etc.
- second-strike — noting, pertaining to, or using nuclear forces capable of withstanding attack and retaliating after an adversary has launched a first strike.
- semi-darkness — partial darkness
- semipalatinsk — a city in NE Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.
- settling tank — a tank for holding liquid until particles suspended in it settle.
- sewing basket — box for sewing accessories
- shack-tapping — the making of house-by-house visits to canvass.
- shakespearian — of, relating to, or suggestive of Shakespeare or his works.
- shaking palsy — Parkinson's disease.
- shark finning — the practice of catching sharks, removing their fins (which are commercially valuable) and throwing the rest of the shark back into the sea (often while it is still alive, but doomed to drown because it cannot swim without its fins)
- shaving stick — a piece of shaving foam moulded into a slender shape and held in a slender container for ease of application to the face when removing hair with a razor
- shepherd king — any of the Hyksos kings.
- shilling mark — a virgule, as used as a divider between shillings and pence: One reads 2/6 as “two shillings and sixpence” or “two and six.”.
- shocking pink — a vivid or intensely bright pink.
- silent killer — a disease that has no obvious symptoms or indications
- silk industry — the industry that is involved with the breeding of silkworms and the manufacture of the silk they produce into thread and fabric