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9-letter words containing s, k, i

  • backswing — the movement of a club, bat, or racket backwards, away from the intended point of contact, in preparation for making a stroke
  • bahookies — Plural form of bahookie.
  • balikesir — city in NW Asiatic Turkey: pop. 173,000
  • balkanise — to divide (a country, territory, etc.) into small, quarrelsome, ineffectual states.
  • balkanism — to divide (a country, territory, etc.) into small, quarrelsome, ineffectual states.
  • balkiness — The state or quality of being balky.
  • balklines — Plural form of balkline.
  • bankerish — resembling or befitting a banker, especially in being perceived as reserved and conservative in dress and demeanor: a model of bankerish decorum.
  • basilisks — Plural form of basilisk.
  • basinlike — resembling a basin
  • bassarisk — any carnivorous mammal of the genus Bassariscus, comprising the cacomistles and ringtails.
  • bearskins — Plural form of bearskin.
  • beastlike — resembling a beast
  • berkshire — a historic county of S England: since reorganization in 1974 the River Thames has marked the N boundary while the Berkshire Downs occupy central parts; the county council was replaced by six unitary authorities in 1998. Area: 1259 sq km (486 sq miles)
  • betsiboka — a river in central Madagascar, flowing NW to the Mozambique Channel. About 200 miles (320 km) long.
  • bhikshuni — a female bhikshu; nun.
  • bialystok — a city in E Poland.
  • białystok — a city in E Poland: belonged to Prussia (1795–1807) and to Russia (1807–1919). Pop: 315 000 (2005 est)
  • big bucks — If someone earns or spends big bucks, they earn or spend a lot of money.
  • big skate — See under skate2 .
  • big stick — force or the threat of using force
  • blackfish — a minnow-like Alaskan freshwater fish, Dallia pectoralis, related to the pikes and thought to be able to survive prolonged freezing
  • blacklist — If someone is on a blacklist, they are seen by a government or other organization as being one of a number of people who cannot be trusted or who have done something wrong.
  • blockship — a ship used to block a river or channel
  • bokassa i — original name Jean Bedel Bokassa. 1921–96, president of the Central African Republic (1972–76); emperor of the renamed Central African Empire from 1976 until overthrown in 1979
  • bolshevik — Bolshevik is used to describe the political system and ideas that Lenin and his supporters introduced in Russia after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
  • book list — a list of books, especially a list of recommended or required readings.
  • boot disk — (operating system)   The magnetic disk (usually a hard disk) from which an operating system kernel is loaded (or "bootstrapped"). This second phase in system start-up is performed by a simple bootstrap loader program held in ROM, possibly configured by data stored in some form of writable non-volatile storage. Some operating systems, notably SunOS and Solaris, can be configured to boot from a network rather than from disk. Such a system can thus run as a diskless workstation.
  • boskiness — the quality of being bosky
  • boskopoid — of, relating to, or characteristic of Boskop man or the culture or habitat of Boskop man.
  • brainsick — relating to or caused by insanity; crazy; mad
  • briskness — quick and active; lively: brisk trading; a brisk walk.
  • brookings — Robert Somers [suhm-erz] /ˈsʌm ərz/ (Show IPA), 1850–1932, U.S. merchant and philanthropist.
  • brunswick — a former duchy (1635–1918) and state (1918–46) of central Germany, now part of the state of Lower Saxony; formerly (1949–90) part of West Germany
  • buck slip — Informal. a paper attached to and showing the destination and source of an interoffice memorandum, file, or the like.
  • buckishly — in a buckish manner
  • buckskins — (in the US and Canada) breeches, shoes, or a suit of buckskin
  • bud stick — a shoot of a plant from which buds are cut for the propagation of that plant.
  • bulkiness — of relatively large and cumbersome bulk or size.
  • buttinski — a person who interferes in the affairs of others; meddler.
  • buttinsky — a busybody
  • calfskins — Plural form of calfskin.
  • cannikins — Plural form of cannikin.
  • chalkpits — Plural form of chalkpit.
  • chapstick — a cylinder of a substance for preventing or soothing chapped lips
  • checklist — A checklist is a list of all the things that you need to do, information that you want to find out, or things that you need to take somewhere, which you make in order to ensure that you do not forget anything.
  • cheekiest — Superlative form of cheeky.
  • chickasaw — a member of a Native American people of N Mississippi
  • chickasha — a city in central Oklahoma.
  • chickpeas — Plural form of chickpea.
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