8-letter words containing s, k, o, i
- noisenik — a rock musician who performs loud harsh music
- nonskier — a person who does not ski
- nonstick — having or providing a finish designed to prevent food from sticking during cooking or baking: a nonstick saucepan; a nonstick cooking spray.
- obelisks — Plural form of obelisk.
- ockerism — the conduct or actions that are characteristic of an ocker
- off sick — If you are off sick, you are not at work because you are ill.
- oilskins — A waterproof garment, made from oilskin, used especially at sea.
- oistrakh — David [dey-vid] /ˈdeɪ vɪd/ (Show IPA), 1908–74, Russian violinist.
- oriskany — a village in central New York, near Utica: battle 1777.
- osipenko — former name of Berdyansk.
- out sick — If you are out sick, you are not at work because you are sick.
- outskirt — Often, outskirts. the outlying district or region, as of a city, metropolitan area, or the like: to live on the outskirts of town; a sparsely populated outskirt.
- outslick — to outsmart
- oversick — too sick
- overskip — to skip over
- piroshki — small turnovers or dumplings with a filling, as of meat or fruit.
- pokerish — resembling a poker in stiffness
- polanski — Roman. born 1933, Polish film director with a taste for the macabre, as in Repulsion (1965) and Rosemary's Baby (1968): later films include Tess (1980), Death and the Maiden (1995), and The Pianist (2002)
- ponyskin — the leather from a pony hide
- porkfish — a black and gold grunt, Anisotremus virginicus, of West Indian waters.
- pyknosis — a process of thickening, esp. in the shrinking nucleus of a degenerating cell
- rimouski — a city in SE Quebec, in SE Canada, on the St. Lawrence River.
- rockfish — any of various fishes found about rocks.
- roskilde — a city on the island of Zealand, in E Denmark: a suburb of Copenhagen.
- salonika — Also, Salonica [suh-lon-i-kuh, sal-uh-nee-kuh] /səˈlɒn ɪ kə, ˌsæl əˈni kə/ (Show IPA), Saloniki [Greek sah-law-nee-kee] /Greek ˌsɑ lɔˈni ki/ (Show IPA). Official name Thessalonike. Ancient Therma. a seaport in south-central Macedonia, in NE Greece, on the Gulf of Salonika.
- shamokin — a borough in E Pennsylvania.
- sheikdom — the land or territory under the control of a sheik.
- shitwork — bad work; tedious, badly-paid work
- shizuoka — a city on S Honshu, in central Japan, on Suruga Bay.
- shkotzim — a term used especially by a Jew to refer to a boy or man who is not Jewish.
- shocking — causing intense surprise, disgust, horror, etc.
- sick-dog — a calm and unruffled person
- sick-out — a form of industrial action in which all workers in a factory, etc, report sick simultaneously
- sickroom — a room in which a sick person is confined.
- sidelock — earlock.
- sigatoka — a disease of bananas, characterized by discolored spots on the leaves, caused by a fungus, Mycosphaerella musicola.
- sihanouk — Prince Norodom [nawr-uh-dom,, -duh m] /ˈnɔr əˌdɒm,, -dəm/ (Show IPA), 1922–2004, Cambodian statesman: premier 1952–60; chief of state 1960–70 and 1975–76.
- sikeston — a city in SE Missouri.
- 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.
- silk oak — any of several Australian trees of the genus Grevillea, especially G. robusta, having feathery, fernlike leaves and showy orange or yellow flowers, grown as a street tree in Florida and California.
- silkworm — the larva of the Chinese silkworm moth, Bombyx mori, which spins a cocoon of commercially valuable silk.
- sillcock — hosecock.
- sinkhole — a hole formed in soluble rock by the action of water, serving to conduct surface water to an underground passage.
- ski boot — a heavy, thick-soled, ankle-high shoe for skiing, often having padding and extra supporting straps and laces around the ankle, with grooves at the back of the heel for binding to a ski.
- ski pole — a slender pole or stick, usually with a metal point at one end, a loop for the hand at the other, and a disk near the lower end to prevent its sinking into snow, used in skiing to gain momentum, maintain balance, execute certain jumps, etc.
- skiatron — a cathode-ray tube used in radar
- skid row — an area of cheap barrooms and run-down hotels, frequented by alcoholics and vagrants.
- skillion — a lean-to serving as a room or a shed.
- skim off — to take up or remove (floating matter) from the surface of a liquid, as with a spoon or ladle: to skim the cream from milk.