7-letter words containing s, i, n, k
- skinner — B(urrhus) F(rederic) [bur-uh s] /ˈbɜr əs/ (Show IPA), 1904–90, U.S. psychologist and writer.
- skipton — a market town in N England, in North Yorkshire: 11th-century castle. Pop: 14 313 (2001)
- skirnir — the servant of Frey: symbol of the sun.
- skiting — to boast; brag.
- skyline — the boundary line between earth and sky; the apparent horizon: A sail appeared against the skyline.
- slaking — to allay (thirst, desire, wrath, etc.) by satisfying.
- slatkin — Leonard. born 1944, US conductor; musical director of the St Louis Symphony Orchestra (1979–96) and of the National Symphony Orchestra (1996–2008)
- slicken — to make smooth
- slinked — to move or go in a furtive, abject manner, as from fear, cowardice, or shame.
- slinker — to walk about in a stealthy manner
- smoking — the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance, especially the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood, peat, coal, or other organic matter.
- snaking — any of numerous limbless, scaly, elongate reptiles of the suborder Serpentes, comprising venomous and nonvenomous species inhabiting tropical and temperate areas.
- snakish — of or relating to a snake or snakes, snake-like
- snicker — to laugh in a half-suppressed, indecorous or disrespectful manner.
- snicket — a passageway between walls or fences
- soaking — to lie in and become saturated or permeated with water or some other liquid.
- sock in — to strike or hit hard.
- sorokin — Pitirim Alexandrovitch [pi-ti-reem al-ig-zan-druh-vich,, -zahn-;; Russian pyi-tyi-ryeem uh-lyi-ksahn-druh-vyich] /pɪ tɪˈrim ˌæl ɪgˈzæn drə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian pyɪ tyɪˈryim ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1889–1968, U.S. sociologist, born in Russia.
- soyinka — Wole [woh-ley] /ˈwoʊ leɪ/ (Show IPA), born 1934, Nigerian playwright, novelist, and poet: Nobel prize 1986.
- spoking — a simple past tense of speak.
- spunkie — a will-o'-the-wisp.
- sputnik — (sometimes initial capital letter) any of a series of Soviet earth-orbiting satellites: Sputnik I was the world's first space satellite.
- staking — something that is wagered in a game, race, or contest.
- stikine — a river in NW British Columbia, Canada and SE Alaska, flowing W and SW to the Pacific Ocean: important route in 1890s Klondike gold rush. 335 miles (539 km) long.
- stinker — a person or thing that stinks.
- stoking — to poke, stir up, and feed (a fire).
- suck in — to draw into the mouth by producing a partial vacuum by action of the lips and tongue: to suck lemonade through a straw.
- sucking — not weaned.
- sunlike — (often initial capital letter) the star that is the central body of the solar system, around which the planets revolve and from which they receive light and heat: its mean distance from the earth is about 93 million miles (150 million km), its diameter about 864,000 miles (1.4 million km), and its mass about 330,000 times that of the earth; its period of surface rotation is about 26 days at its equator but longer at higher latitudes.
- sunsick — suffering from mild heat exhaustion.
- takings — You can use takings to refer to the amount of money that a business such as a shop or a cinema gets from selling its goods or tickets during a particular period.
- tasking — a definite piece of work assigned to, falling to, or expected of a person; duty.
- unrisky — attended with or involving risk; hazardous: a risky undertaking.
- unslick — not slick
- unstick — to free, as one thing stuck to another.
- vikings — any of the Scandinavian pirates who plundered the coasts of Europe from the 8th to 10th centuries.
- watkins — a male given name.
- wilkins — Sir George Hubert, 1888–1958, Australian Antarctic explorer, aviator, and aerial navigator.
- winkers — Blocked leather eye shields attached to a (usually) harness bridle for horses, to prevent them from seeing backwards, and partially sideways; blinders in (USA).
- winkles — Plural form of winkle.
- winsock — Windows sockets
- wonkish — a student who spends much time studying and has little or no social life; grind.
- xenakis — Iannis (ˈjanis). 1922–2001, Greek composer and musical theorist, born in Romania: later a French citizen. He was noted for his use of computers in composition: his works include ST/10-1, 080262 (1962) and Dox-orkh (1991)