9-letter words containing s, t, a, k, e
- heartsick — extremely depressed or unhappy.
- heartsink — a patient who repeatedly visits his or her doctor's surgery, often with multiple or non-specific symptoms, and whose complaints are impossible to treat
- heat sink — Thermodynamics. any environment or medium that absorbs heat.
- ice-skate — to skate on ice.
- in-basket — in-box.
- intertask — Between tasks.
- jacksmelt — a large silversides, Atherinopsis californiensis, found along the coast of California, that grows to a length of 22 inches (55 cm).
- jackstone — jack1 (def 5a, b).
- kahn test — a test for syphilis based on the formation of a precipitate in a mixture of serum and antigen.
- karateist — A person who does karate.
- karatekas — Plural form of karateka.
- katalyses — catalysis.
- katangese — a native or inhabitant of Katanga.
- kazatskes — a lively, Slavic folk dance for a solo male dancer, marked especially by the prisiadka.
- keelboats — Plural form of keelboat.
- keratitis — inflammation of the cornea.
- keratoses — having a skeleton formed of horny fibers, as certain sponges.
- keratosis — any skin disease characterized by a horny growth, as a wart.
- key stage — any one of four broad age-group divisions (5–7; 7–11; 11–14; 14–16) to which each level of the National Curriculum applies
- keystream — (cryptography) A stream of random or pseudorandom characters that are combined with the plaintext to produce a ciphertext.
- kidstakes — pretense or nonsense.
- lakehurst — a borough in E New Jersey: naval air station; dirigible hangar.
- lankester — Sir Edwin Ray, 1847–1929, English zoologist and writer.
- lapstrake — clinker-built (def 2).
- lapstreak — Alternative form of lapstrake.
- latchkeys — Plural form of latchkey.
- leafstalk — petiole (def 1).
- leetspeak — a coded spelling system and language used in very informal communications on the Internet, featuring letters combined with numbers or special characters in place of letters that they may resemble, and including inventive misspellings, jargon, and slang.
- majestick — Archaic spelling of majestic.
- makeshift — a temporary expedient or substitute: We used boxes as a makeshift while the kitchen chairs were being painted.
- marketers — Plural form of marketer.
- marketise — Alternative spelling of marketize.
- matsutake — A kind of mushroom, Tricholoma matsutake.
- meathooks — Usually, meat hooks. Slang. a hand or fist: Get your meat hooks away from that cake! It's for dessert.
- meatworks — (Australia, New Zealand) A slaughterhouse or meat processing plant.
- mucksweat — profuse sweat or a state of profuse sweating
- nonskater — a person who does not skate
- outbreaks — Plural form of outbreak.
- outskates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outskate.
- outspeaks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outspeak.
- packsheet — a cloth used for packing goods
- pasternak — Boris Leonidovich [bawr-is,, bohr-,, bor-;; Russian buh-ryees lyi-uh-nyee-duh-vyich] /ˈbɔr ɪs,, ˈboʊr-,, ˈbɒr-;; Russian bʌˈryis lyɪ ʌˈnyi də vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1960, Russian poet, novelist, and translator: declined 1958 Nobel prize.
- periaktos — an ancient device used for changing theatre scenery, usually consisting of a revolving triangular prism with different scenes painted on each face; the device was heavily used in the Renaissance
- pikestaff — the shaft of an infantry pike.
- piss-take — A piss-take is an act of making fun of someone or something.
- prankster — a mischievous or malicious person who plays tricks, practical jokes, etc., at the expense of another.
- rat snake — any of several New and Old World colubrid snakes, of the genus Elaphe, that feed chiefly on small mammals and birds.
- redstreak — an English variety of apple which is streaked red and yellow and is used in cider making
- rib steak — club steak.
- risktaker — a person or corporation inclined to take risks: The management trainees were exhorted to become risktakers.