5-letter words containing s, k, e
- sepik — a river in N Papua New Guinea, flowing E to the Bismarck Sea. 700 miles (1126 km) long.
- shake — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
- sheik — Also, shaikh, sheikh. (in Islamic countries) the patriarch of a tribe or family; chief: a term of polite address.
- shmek — a faint smell
- siker — safe from danger; secure.
- skate — a person; fellow: He's a good skate.
- skean — a knife or dagger formerly used in Ireland and in the Scottish Highlands.
- skeat — Walter William, 1835–1912, English philologist and lexicographer.
- skeed — one of a pair of long, slender runners made of wood, plastic, or metal used in gliding over snow.
- skeef — at an oblique angle; not straight
- skeen — the Himalayan ibex
- skeet — a hand consisting of a nine, five, two, and two other cards of denominations below nine but not of the same denomination, being of special value in certain games.
- skeif — a wheel on which diamonds and other gems are ground or polished.
- skein — a length of yarn or thread wound on a reel or swift preparatory for use in manufacturing.
- skelf — a splinter of wood, esp when embedded accidentally in the skin
- skell — a homeless person who lives on the streets, sleeps in doorways or subways, etc.; derelict.
- skelm — a villain or crook
- skelp — metal in strip form that is fed into various rolls and welded to form tubing.
- skene — (in the ancient Greek theater) a structure facing the audience and forming the background before which performances were given.
- skete — a settlement of monks or ascetics.
- skews — to turn aside or swerve; take an oblique course.
- skied — a simple past tense of sky.
- skien — a port in S Norway, on the Skien River: one of the oldest towns in Norway; timber industry. Pop: 50 507 (2004 est)
- skier — a person who skis.
- skies — plural of sky.
- skiey — skyey.
- skite — a quick, oblique blow or stroke; a chopping blow.
- skive — to split or cut, as leather, into layers or slices.
- skyer — a lofty hit of a cricket ball
- skyey — of or from the sky.
- skype — a software application that allows users to make voice and video calls over the internet
- skyre — to be shining bright or conspicuous
- skyte — a quick, oblique blow or stroke; a chopping blow.
- slake — to allay (thirst, desire, wrath, etc.) by satisfying.
- sleek — smooth or glossy, as hair, an animal, etc.
- sloke — algae or seaweed.
- smeek — the fumes or smoke produced from something burning
- smoke — 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.
- snake — any of numerous limbless, scaly, elongate reptiles of the suborder Serpentes, comprising venomous and nonvenomous species inhabiting tropical and temperate areas.
- sneak — to go in a stealthy or furtive manner; slink; skulk.
- sneck — a small stone, as a spall, inserted into the spaces between larger pieces of rubble in a wall.
- snoek — a long, slender marine food fish, Thyrsites atun, of the family Gempylidae, of the southern oceans.
- soken — a district held by socage.
- spake — a simple past tense of speak.
- speak — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
- speck — a small spot differing in color or substance from that of the surface or material upon which it appears or lies: Specks of soot on the window sill.
- speke — John Hanning [han-ing] /ˈhæn ɪŋ/ (Show IPA), 1827–64, English explorer in Africa.
- spelk — a splinter of wood
- spike — an ear, as of wheat or other grain.
- spoke — a simple past tense of speak.