8-letter words containing s, k, i, r
- piroshki — small turnovers or dumplings with a filling, as of meat or fruit.
- pokerish — resembling a poker in stiffness
- porkfish — a black and gold grunt, Anisotremus virginicus, of West Indian waters.
- prankish — of the nature of a prank: a prankish plan.
- quirkish — (archaic) Characterized by quirks; evasive, tricky.
- ram disk — (operating system, storage) A memory-resident program which mimics a hard disk drive. It uses part of computer's RAM to store data which can be accessed as files. Unlike a real disk drive, this drive forgets all stored data when the computer is turned off.
- rankings — the official list of the best players in a particular sport
- raw silk — reeled silk that has not had the sericin removed.
- restrike — a coin freshly minted from dies of an earlier issue.
- rickshaw — jinrikisha.
- rijswijk — a town in SW Netherlands, near The Hague: Treaty of Ryswick 1697.
- rimouski — a city in SE Quebec, in SE Canada, on the St. Lawrence River.
- rinkhals — ringhals.
- riskless — free of risk
- rockfish — any of various fishes found about rocks.
- roskilde — a city on the island of Zealand, in E Denmark: a suburb of Copenhagen.
- sanskrit — an Indo-European, Indic language, in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India. Abbreviation: Skt.
- satyrisk — a small satyr
- sea risk — Often, sea risks. the hazard of traveling or transporting by sea.
- sharking — a person who preys greedily on others, as by cheating or usury.
- shirking — to evade (work, duty, responsibility, etc.).
- shitwork — bad work; tedious, badly-paid work
- shrinker — a person or thing that shrinks.
- 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.
- sickener — something that sickens or disgusts.
- sickerly — surely
- sickroom — a room in which a sick person is confined.
- sikorski — Władysław (ˈvlædɪslæf). 1881–1943, Polish general and statesman: prime minister (1922–23) and prime minister of the Polish government in exile during World War II: died in an air crash
- sikorsky — Igor [ee-gawr] /ˈi gɔr/ (Show IPA), 1889–1972, U.S. aeronautical engineer, born in Russia.
- silkworm — the larva of the Chinese silkworm moth, Bombyx mori, which spins a cocoon of commercially valuable silk.
- simbirsk — former name of Ulyanovsk.
- sitkamer — a sitting room; lounge
- sitzmark — a sunken area in the snow marking a backward fall of a skier.
- skerrick — a small piece or quantity; a bit: Not even a skerrick of cake was left.
- ski rack — a rack for holding skis, as one that can be attached to the roof of a car or set up outside a ski lodge.
- ski-rack — a piece of equipment for the roof a car, which holds skis
- ski-wear — clothes that are intended for skiing
- skiagram — a picture made by outlining and shading a subject's shadow.
- skiatron — a cathode-ray tube used in radar
- skid row — an area of cheap barrooms and run-down hotels, frequented by alcoholics and vagrants.
- skincare — use of toiletries on the skin
- skinnery — a place where skins are prepared, as for the market.
- skinnier — very lean or thin; emaciated: a skinny little kitten.
- skioring — the traditional sport of being dragged on skis behind an animal
- skip car — an open car for charging a blast furnace.
- skirling — the sound of a bagpipe.
- skirmish — Military. a fight between small bodies of troops, especially advanced or outlying detachments of opposing armies.
- skirting — the part of a gown, dress, slip, or coat that extends downward from the waist.
- skittery — skittish.