10-letter words containing s, k, i, d
- silk gland — any of several glands, as in various insects and spiders, that secrete a viscid protein substance which hardens into silk on contact with air.
- skew field — a ring in which the equations ax = b and xa = b have solutions for x.
- skid a rig — If you skid a rig, you slide it from one well hole to another.
- skid chain — a chain fitting over the tire of a car, truck, or other vehicle, to increase traction and prevent skidding on roads covered with ice or snow.
- skin diver — person who explores underwater
- skinny-dip — to swim in the nude.
- sky diving — the sport of jumping from an airplane and executing free-fall maneuvers before opening the parachute, often at the last possible moment
- skylighted — having or illuminated by a skylight.
- slide knot — a knot formed by making two half hitches on the standing part of the rope, the second hitch being next to the loop, which can be tightened.
- soft drink — a beverage that is not alcoholic or intoxicating and is usually carbonated, as root beer or ginger ale.
- soundalike — a person or thing that sounds like another, especially a better known or more famous prototype: a whole spate of Elvis Presley soundalikes.
- spiderlike — any of numerous predaceous arachnids of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs that serve as nests and as traps for prey.
- spiderwork — a thing which has the appearance of a spider's web
- stick down — seal with an adhesive
- sticky end — a single-stranded end of DNA or RNA having a nucleotide base sequence complementary to that of another strand, enabling the two strands to be connected by base pairing: produced in the laboratory with the use of restriction enzymes for genetic engineering purposes.
- stockinged — a close-fitting covering for the foot and part of the leg, usually knitted, of wool, cotton, nylon, silk, or similar material.
- stockrider — a cowboy.
- strickland — William, 1787–1854, U.S. architect and engineer.
- subkingdom — a category of related phyla within a kingdom.
- sun-kissed — made warm by the sun
- swordstick — a hollow walking stick containing a short sword or dagger
- take aside — talk to privately
- take sides — one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
- underskirt — a skirt, as a petticoat, worn under another skirt or a dress.
- unkindness — lacking in kindness or mercy; severe.
- waterskied — Simple past tense and past participle of waterski.
- wickedness — the quality or state of being wicked.
- wind shake — Also called anemosis. a flaw in wood supposed to be caused by the action of strong winds upon the trunk of the tree.
- windbreaks — Plural form of windbreak.
- windows 2k — Windows 2000
- windsucker — a horse afflicted with cribbing.
- woodshrike — any of several species of shrike, including the common woodshrike, Tephrodornis pondicerianus, and the large woodshrike, Tephrodornis gularis
- yardsticks — Plural form of yardstick.