9-letter words containing s, k, e, t
- sitzkrieg — slow-moving warfare marked by repeated stalemate.
- skate-ski — to glide over snow on skate skis.
- skatepark — A skatepark is an area that is designed for people to practise skateboarding.
- skeptical — doubtful about a particular thing: My teacher thinks I can get a scholarship, but I'm skeptical.
- sketch in — If you sketch in details about something, you tell them to people.
- sketching — a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, especially a preliminary one, giving the essential features without the details.
- sketchpad — sketchbook (def 1).
- skill set — a particular combination of skills that a person has developed, especially ones that can be used in a job: She doesn't have the proper skill set to be an effective manager.
- skin test — a test in which a substance is introduced into the skin, as by application to a purposely abraded area or by injection, for the detection of allergic sensitivity to a specific pollen, protein, etc., or of the presence of a disease.
- skirtless — having, or wearing, no skirt
- skirtlike — resembling a skirt
- skittered — to go, run, or glide lightly or rapidly.
- skyrocket — a rocket firework that ascends into the air and explodes at a height, usually in a brilliant array of sparks of one or more colors.
- slatelike — resembling slate
- slickster — a crafty and opportunistic or deceitful person; hustler; swindler.
- smethwick — a city in West Midlands, in central England, near Birmingham.
- smoke out — 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.
- smoke pot — a can of chemicals that produces a great quantity of smoke when ignited.
- snake pit — a mental hospital marked by squalor and inhumane or indifferent care for the patients.
- snakebite — the bite of a snake, especially of one that is venomous.
- snakeroot — any of various plants whose roots have been regarded as a remedy for snakebites, as the herb Aristolochia serpentaria (Virginia snakeroot) having a medicinal rhizome and rootlets, and the white-flowered Polygala senega (Seneca snakeroot) having a medicinal root.
- soak test — the act or process of testing something, such as software or a component, over an extended period of time
- soopstake — sweeping up all stakes
- sooterkin — the mythical black afterbirth of Dutch women that was believed to result from their warming themselves on stoves
- sootflake — a smudge or speck of soot
- speak out — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
- stackable — capable of being stacked, especially easily: stackable chairs.
- stackless — without or not using a stack
- stagelike — resembling a theatrical stage
- stairlike — resembling stairs
- stake out — a stick or post pointed at one end for driving into the ground as a boundary mark, part of a fence, support for a plant, etc.
- stake-out — a stick or post pointed at one end for driving into the ground as a boundary mark, part of a fence, support for a plant, etc.
- stalkless — having no stalk.
- stalklike — the stem or main axis of a plant.
- starquake — a rapid change in the mass distribution or shape of a pulsar, resulting in a fluctuation of the pulsar's pulse rate or radiation intensity.
- staymaker — a corset maker, a maker of stays
- steak set — a carving set for steaks.
- steampunk — 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.
- steedlike — resembling a steed or spirited horse
- steelwork — steel parts or articles.
- steenkirk — a type of cravat worn in a loose or disorderly manner
- steinbeck — John (Ernst) [urnst] /ɜrnst/ (Show IPA), 1902–68, U.S. novelist: Nobel prize 1962.
- steinkern — the fossilized outline of a hollow organic structure, as a skull or a mollusk shell, formed when mud or sediment consolidated within the structure and the structure itself disintegrated or dissolved.
- stenokous — able to live or survive only within a limited range of environments
- step back — retreat, move backwards
- stickable — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stickered — a person or thing that sticks.
- sticklike — resembling a stick
- stickseed — any of the weedy plants belonging to the genus Lappula, having prickly seeds that adhere to clothing.
- stickweed — the ragweed.