10-letter words containing s, k, a, n, e
- painstaker — a painstaking person
- peakedness — pale and drawn in appearance so as to suggest illness or stress; wan and sickly.
- pennsauken — a township in W New Jersey, on the Delaware River.
- pine snake — any of several subspecies of bullsnake of the eastern and southeastern U.S., chiefly in pine woods: now threatened.
- pipe snake — any of several nonvenomous, burrowing snakes of the genus Cylindrophis, of southeastern Asia and the Malay Archipelago, having an evenly cylindrical body.
- rackabones — 'a rack of bones', a metaphor for a person or animal that is very thin or emaciated
- rank scale — (in systemic linguistics) a hierarchical ordering of grammatical units such that a unit of a given rank normally consists of units of the next lower rank, as, in English, the ordering sentence, clause, group or phrase, word, morpheme.
- ranshackle — to ransack
- red shanks — herb Robert.
- reichsbank — the former German national bank.
- ring snake — grass snake (def 1).
- rock snake — any large Australasian python of the genus Liasis
- saint luke — a fellow worker of Paul and a physician (Colossians 4:14). Feast day: Oct 18
- sandsucker — the flatfish Platessa limandoides
- scent-mark — to deposit a scent mark; mark.
- scharwenka — (Ludwig) Philipp [loot-vikh fee-lip] /ˈlut vɪx ˈfi lɪp/ (Show IPA), 1847–1917, German composer.
- seakeeping — the ability of a vessel to endure rough conditions at sea and navigate safely during long storms.
- seamanlike — like or befitting a seaman; showing good seamanship.
- semi-naked — being without clothing or covering; nude: naked children swimming in the lake.
- shackleton — Sir Ernest Henry, 1874–1922, English explorer of the Antarctic.
- shake down — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
- shake-down — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
- shankpiece — a piece of metal or fiber for giving form to the shank of a shoe.
- sheepshank — a kind of knot, hitch, or bend made on a rope to shorten it temporarily.
- sinkerball — sinker (def 5).
- skin alive — the external covering or integument of an animal body, especially when soft and flexible.
- skinnerian — a psychologist who follows behaviorist theories developed by B. F. Skinner.
- slackening — an act of becoming looser
- slammerkin — a woman's loose dress
- snail kite — a bird of prey, Rostrhamus sociabilis, that travels in flocks in the American tropics and feeds on snails.
- snake eyes — a cast of two; two aces.
- snake foot — an elongated foot or short leg, as to a pedestal table, having the form of an ogee tangent to the floor surface.
- snake lily — a Californian plant, Dichelostemma volubile, of the amaryllis family, having a twining stem and an umbel of rose-red or pink flowers.
- snakemouth — rose pogonia.
- snakestone — a piece of porous material popularly supposed to neutralize the toxic effect of a snakebite.
- snarkiness — testy or irritable; short.
- sneakernet — Facetious. the transfer of electronic information by carrying the storage medium, especially a floppy disk, from one computer to another.
- sneakingly — acting in a furtive or underhand way.
- sneakishly — in a stealthy or underhanded manner
- soundalike — a person or thing that sounds like another, especially a better known or more famous prototype: a whole spate of Elvis Presley soundalikes.
- space junk — objects such as artificial satellites, material discarded from space stations, etc that remain in space after use
- speakerine — a female television or radio announcer
- speakingly — in an eloquent manner
- sperm bank — a repository for storing sperm and keeping it viable under scientifically controlled conditions prior to its use in artificial insemination.
- spongecake — sweet cake of eggs and flour
- state bank — a bank chartered by a state and operated under the banking laws of that state.
- steam-punk — a subgenre of science fiction and fantasy featuring advanced machines and other technology based on steam power of the 19th century and taking place in a recognizable historical period or a fantasy world.
- stonebreak — any of a variety of plants in the genus Saxifraga
- surge tank — a large surge chamber.
- take notes — to write down notes, as during a lecture or interview, for later reference