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9-letter words containing s, t, a, k, e

  • sack time — time spent sleeping.
  • salt cake — an impure form of sodium sulfate, especially as obtained by the interaction of sulfuric acid and common salt in the synthesis of hydrochloric acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of glass, ceramic glazes, soaps, and sodium salts.
  • salt lake — a body of water having no outlet to the sea and containing in solution a high concentration of salts, especially sodium chloride.
  • 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
  • self-talk — motivational thoughts, affirmations
  • shake out — If you shake out a cloth or a piece of clothing, you hold it by one of its edges and move it up and down one or more times, in order to open it out, make it flat, or remove dust.
  • shark net — a net for catching sharks
  • shortcake — a cake made with a relatively large amount of butter or other shortening.
  • shotmaker — a sports player delivering good shots
  • sidetrack — any railroad track, other than a siding, auxiliary to the main track.
  • skate-ski — to glide over snow on skate skis.
  • skatepark — A skatepark is an area that is designed for people to practise skateboarding.
  • skeptical — doubtful about a particular thing: My teacher thinks I can get a scholarship, but I'm skeptical.
  • sketchpad — sketchbook (def 1).
  • slatelike — resembling slate
  • snake pit — a mental hospital marked by squalor and inhumane or indifferent care for the patients.
  • snakebite — the bite of a snake, especially of one that is venomous.
  • snakeroot — any of various plants whose roots have been regarded as a remedy for snakebites, as the herb Aristolochia serpentaria (Virginia snakeroot) having a medicinal rhizome and rootlets, and the white-flowered Polygala senega (Seneca snakeroot) having a medicinal root.
  • soak test — the act or process of testing something, such as software or a component, over an extended period of time
  • soopstake — sweeping up all stakes
  • sootflake — a smudge or speck of soot
  • speak out — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
  • stackable — capable of being stacked, especially easily: stackable chairs.
  • stackless — without or not using a stack
  • stagelike — resembling a theatrical stage
  • stairlike — resembling stairs
  • stake out — a stick or post pointed at one end for driving into the ground as a boundary mark, part of a fence, support for a plant, etc.
  • stake-out — a stick or post pointed at one end for driving into the ground as a boundary mark, part of a fence, support for a plant, etc.
  • stalkless — having no stalk.
  • stalklike — the stem or main axis of a plant.
  • starquake — a rapid change in the mass distribution or shape of a pulsar, resulting in a fluctuation of the pulsar's pulse rate or radiation intensity.
  • staymaker — a corset maker, a maker of stays
  • steak set — a carving set for steaks.
  • steampunk — a subgenre of science fiction and fantasy featuring advanced machines and other technology based on steam power of the 19th century and taking place in a recognizable historical period or a fantasy world.
  • 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.
  • stocktake — to count and check the goods on hand in a shop or business
  • streaking — a long, narrow mark, smear, band of color, or the like: streaks of mud.
  • strikable — being cause for a strike, as by union members: strikable labor issues.
  • strokable — appearing pleasant to stroke
  • submarket — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
  • supertalk — Silicon Beach Software. A superset of HyperTalk used in SuperCard.
  • supertask — a paradox resulting from the notion that a task requiring an infinite number of steps could be performed in a finite time by halving the duration of each step.
  • sweptback — (of the leading edge of an airfoil) forming a markedly obtuse angle with the fuselage.
  • tackiness — not tasteful or fashionable; dowdy.
  • take arms — go to war
  • take odds — to accept such a bet
  • take silk — to become a Queen's (or King's) Counsel
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