8-letter words containing s, k, e, n
- noisenik — a rock musician who performs loud harsh music
- non-sked — a nonscheduled airline or plane: He got his training with the nonskeds.
- nonskier — a person who does not ski
- osipenko — former name of Berdyansk.
- peckings — to strike or indent with the beak, as a bird does, or with some pointed instrument, especially with quick, repeated movements.
- pekinese — A pekinese is a type of small dog with long hair, short legs, and a short, flat nose.
- penstock — a pipe conducting water from a head gate to a waterwheel.
- pinkster — Whitsuntide.
- quickens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quicken.
- rankless — a number of persons forming a separate class in a social hierarchy or in any graded body.
- rankness — growing with excessive luxuriance; vigorous and tall of growth: tall rank weeds.
- redshank — an Old World sandpiper, Tringa totanus, having red legs and feet.
- sea king — one of the piratical Scandinavian chiefs who ravaged the coasts of medieval Europe.
- sea pink — thrift (def 3).
- sealskin — the skin of a seal.
- selznick — David O(liver) 1902–65, U.S. motion-picture producer.
- shekinah — the presence of God on earth or a symbol or manifestation of His presence.
- shrinker — a person or thing that shrinks.
- shrunken — a past participle of shrink.
- shunpike — a side road taken instead of a turnpike or expressway to avoid tolls or to travel at a leisurely pace.
- shuriken — a martial-arts weapon usually in the shape of a star or cross with sharp protruding edges, thrown with a spin towards the target
- shvernik — Nikolai [nik-uh-lahy;; Russian nyi-kuh-lahy] /ˈnɪk əˌlaɪ;; Russian nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ/ (Show IPA), 1888–1970, Russian government official: president of the Soviet Union 1946–53.
- shymkent — a city in S Kazakhstan; a major railway junction. Pop: 469 000 (2005 est)
- sickener — something that sickens or disgusts.
- sickness — a particular disease or malady.
- sikeston — a city in SE Missouri.
- 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.
- skeechan — a beer of treacle and malt liquor
- skeeting — to spit (saliva or a mouthful of other liquid) from the mouth, especially between the teeth.
- skeleton — Anatomy, Zoology. the bones of a human or an animal considered as a whole, together forming the framework of the body.
- skewness — asymmetry in a frequency distribution.
- skincare — use of toiletries on the skin
- skinhead — a baldheaded man.
- skinless — deprived of skin: a skinless carcass.
- skinnery — a place where skins are prepared, as for the market.
- skinnier — very lean or thin; emaciated: a skinny little kitten.
- skipdent — an open-weave effect in fabric, produced by purposely omitting specific warp ends in the drawing-in process.
- skiplane — an airplane equipped with skis to enable it to land on and take off from snow.
- skyborne — airborne.
- smolensk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, on the upper Dnieper, SW of Moscow: Russians defeated by Napoleon 1812.
- snakebit — bitten by a snake.
- snakefly — any neuropterous insect of the family Raphidiidae, of western North America, having an elongated prothorax resembling a neck.
- snakepit — a pit filled with snakes
- sneakers — a high or low shoe, usually of fabric such as canvas, with a rubber or synthetic sole.
- sneakeup — a cowardly, underhanded, or sneaky person
- sneakily — like or suggestive of a sneak; furtive; deceitful.
- sneaking — acting in a furtive or underhand way.
- sneakish — (of a person or action) somewhat or rather sneaky