9-letter words containing s, t, a, c, k
- schematik — A NeXT front-end to MIT Scheme for the NeXT by Chris Kane and Max Hailperin <[email protected]>. Schematik provides syntax-knowledgeable text editing, graphics windows and a user-interface to an underlying MIT Scheme process. It comes with MIT Scheme 7.1.3 ready to install on the NeXT and requires NEXTSTEP. Version: 1.1.5.2.
- sea stack — a pillarlike mass of rock detached by wave action from a cliff-lined shore and surrounded by water.
- seat back — the part of a chair or seat that you rest your back against
- shortcake — a cake made with a relatively large amount of butter or other shortening.
- sidetrack — any railroad track, other than a siding, auxiliary to the main track.
- skeptical — doubtful about a particular thing: My teacher thinks I can get a scholarship, but I'm skeptical.
- sketchpad — sketchbook (def 1).
- slapstick — broad comedy characterized by boisterous action, as the throwing of pies in actors' faces, mugging, and obvious farcical situations and jokes.
- slat back — a chair back having two or more horizontal slats between upright posts.
- stab kick — a rapid kick of the ball from one player to another member of his team
- stackable — capable of being stacked, especially easily: stackable chairs.
- stackless — without or not using a stack
- stackroom — an area in a library where books are not on open shelves
- step back — retreat, move backwards
- stickable — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stickball — a form of baseball played in the streets, on playgrounds, etc., in which a rubber ball and a broomstick or the like are used in place of a baseball and bat.
- stock car — a standard model of automobile changed in various ways for racing purposes.
- stocktake — to count and check the goods on hand in a shop or business
- stockyard — an enclosure with pens, sheds, etc., connected with a slaughterhouse, railroad, market, etc., for the temporary housing of cattle, sheep, swine, or horses.
- sweptback — (of the leading edge of an airfoil) forming a markedly obtuse angle with the fuselage.
- tackiness — not tasteful or fashionable; dowdy.
- tailstock — a movable or sliding support for the dead center of a lathe or grinder.
- the backs — the grounds between the River Cam and certain Cambridge colleges
- trackless — without a track, as a snow-covered meadow.
- trackside — located next to a railroad track.
- tracksuit — a sweat suit, usually with a long-sleeved jacket and long pants, worn by athletes, especially runners, before and after actual competition or during workouts.
- trainsick — ill with train sickness.
- yardstick — a stick a yard long, commonly marked with subdivisions, used for measuring.