10-letter words containing s, k, i, n, e
- shankpiece — a piece of metal or fiber for giving form to the shank of a shoe.
- shell pink — delicate whitish to yellow pink.
- sickerness — sureness
- sickliness — not strong; unhealthy; ailing.
- sicknesses — a particular disease or malady.
- silkscreen — Also called silkscreen process. a printmaking technique in which a mesh cloth is stretched over a heavy wooden frame and the design, painted on the screen by tusche or affixed by stencil, is printed by having a squeegee force color through the pores of the material in areas not blocked out by a glue sizing.
- silverskin — the inner skin of a coffee bean
- sinkerball — sinker (def 5).
- skeletonic — resembling a skeleton
- skew lines — two or more lines that lie in different planes, are not parallel, and do not intersect
- skimmerton — shivaree (def 1).
- skin alive — the external covering or integument of an animal body, especially when soft and flexible.
- skin diver — person who explores underwater
- skinnerian — a psychologist who follows behaviorist theories developed by B. F. Skinner.
- skippering — the master or captain of a vessel, especially of a small trading or fishing vessel.
- skittering — to go, run, or glide lightly or rapidly.
- skywritten — created by the process of skywriting
- slackening — an act of becoming looser
- slammerkin — a woman's loose dress
- 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.
- slovenlike — slovenly
- smoke ring — a visible ring formed by the sudden release of smoke, usually created by blowing smoke from the mouth or by a cigarette, incense stick etc
- snail kite — a bird of prey, Rostrhamus sociabilis, that travels in flocks in the American tropics and feeds on snails.
- snake lily — a Californian plant, Dichelostemma volubile, of the amaryllis family, having a twining stem and an umbel of rose-red or pink flowers.
- snarkiness — testy or irritable; short.
- sneakingly — acting in a furtive or underhand way.
- sneakishly — in a stealthy or underhanded manner
- snickering — to laugh in a half-suppressed, indecorous or disrespectful manner.
- snorkeling — Also called, British, snort. a device permitting a submarine to remain submerged for prolonged periods, consisting of tubes extended above the surface of the water to take in air for the diesel engine and for general ventilation and to discharge exhaust gases and foul air.
- sock-liner — a thin piece of material, as leather, that is laid on top of the insole of a shoe, boot, or other footwear.
- soundalike — a person or thing that sounds like another, especially a better known or more famous prototype: a whole spate of Elvis Presley soundalikes.
- speakerine — a female television or radio announcer
- speakingly — in an eloquent manner
- spelunking — to explore caves, especially as a hobby.
- sphinxlike — like the Sphinx; enigmatic or inscrutable
- spookiness — like or befitting a spook or ghost; suggestive of spooks.
- springlike — to rise, leap, move, or act suddenly and swiftly, as by a sudden dart or thrust forward or outward, or being suddenly released from a coiled or constrained position: to spring into the air; a tiger about to spring.
- spunkiness — plucky; spirited.
- stickering — a person or thing that sticks.
- stickiness — having the property of adhering, as glue; 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.
- stinkstone — any of various limestones that emit an unpleasant odor when scratched or struck.
- stockiness — the quality of being stocky
- stockinged — a close-fitting covering for the foot and part of the leg, usually knitted, of wool, cotton, nylon, silk, or similar material.
- stockinger — a person who knits on a stocking frame
- stunt kite — a kite held by two hands and having two lines
- sun-kissed — made warm by the sun
- ten-strike — Tenpins. a strike.
- the buskin — tragic drama
- timoshenko — Semion Konstantinovich [syi-myawn ken-stuhn-tyee-nuh-vyich] /syɪˈmyɔn kɛn stʌnˈtyi nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1895–1970, Russian general.