11-letter words containing s, y, k
- king's lynn — a historic town in Norfolk, England.
- kinky boots — boots with a very high heel and pointed toe, reaching to the thigh and often made of a shiny material, which are intended to look provocative and sexy
- kirby-smith — Edmund, 1824–93, Confederate general in the American Civil War.
- kiss my ass — expressing defiance or contempt
- kittenishly — In a kittenish manner.
- krasnoyarsk — a territory of the Russian Federation in N and central Asia. 827,507 sq. mi. (2,143,243 sq. km).
- krasny luch — a city in SE Ukraine, E of Donetsk.
- krebs cycle — a cycle of enzyme-catalyzed reactions in living cells that is the final series of reactions of aerobic metabolism of carbohydrates, proteins, and fatty acids, and by which carbon dioxide is produced, oxygen is reduced, and ATP is formed.
- leschetizky — Theodor [tey-uh-dawr,, -dohr,, thee-] /ˈteɪ əˌdɔr,, -ˌdoʊr,, ˈθi-/ (Show IPA), 1830–1915, Polish pianist and composer.
- lickerishly — In a lickerish manner.
- lobachevsky — Nikolai Ivanovich [nyi-kuh-lahy ee-vah-nuh-vyich] /nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ iˈvɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1856, Russian mathematician.
- lymphokines — Plural form of lymphokine.
- malt whisky — whisky, as Scotch, made entirely from malted barley.
- marsh tacky — a small, sometimes half-wild horse of the coastal marshes.
- merrymakers — Plural form of merrymaker.
- mistakingly — an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc.
- money talks — If you say that money talks, you mean that if someone has a lot of money, they also have a lot of power.
- moneymakers — Plural form of moneymaker.
- monkey bars — children's climbing frame
- monkey fist — a ball-like knot used as an ornament or as a throwing weight at the end of a line.
- monkey sort — bogo-sort
- monkey suit — a tuxedo or full-dress suit.
- monkeyshine — Usually, monkeyshines. a frivolous or mischievous prank; monkey business.
- moussorgsky — Modest Petrovich [moh-dest pi-troh-vich;; Russian muh-dyest pyi-traw-vyich] /moʊˈdɛst pɪˈtroʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian mʌˈdyɛst pyɪˈtrɔ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1839–81, Russian composer.
- new yorkese — the speech thought to be characteristic of a person from New York City, as in pronunciation or vocabulary.
- news weekly — a weekly newspaper or news magazine
- nosy parker — a prying person
- number keys — keypad
- nutty slack — coal
- outspokenly — In an outspoken manner.
- oxygen mask — a masklike device placed or worn over the nose and mouth when inhaling supplementary oxygen from an attached tank.
- oyster fork — a small, three-pronged fork, used especially in eating seafood.
- oyster pink — a delicate pinkish-white colour, sometimes with a greyish tinge
- oyster rake — a rake with a long handle and curved teeth for gathering in oysters from shallow waters
- penny stock — common stock, usually highly speculative, selling for less than a dollar a share.
- persnickety — overparticular; fussy.
- piatigorsky — Gregor [greg-er] /ˈgrɛg ər/ (Show IPA), 1903–76, U.S. cellist, born in Russia.
- plisetskaya — Maya (Mikhailovna) [mah-yuh myi-khahy-luh v-nuh] /ˈmɑ yə myɪˈxaɪ ləv nə/ (Show IPA), 1925–2015, Soviet ballet dancer.
- prickly ash — Also called Northern prickly ash, toothache tree. a citrus shrub or small tree, Zanthoxylum americanum, having aromatic leaves and usually prickly branches.
- prokaryotes — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- prokopyevsk — a city in the S central Russian Federation in Asia, NW of Novokuznetsk.
- psyche knot — a woman's hairdo in which a knot or coil of hair projects from the back of the head.
- pyrokinesis — the ability to set objects or people on fire through the concentration of psychic power.
- quick study — someone who is able to learn a new job or adjust to a new social environment in a short time.
- rock steady — the style of vocalized Jamaican popular music that succeeded ska and preceded reggae in the 1960s, influenced by American soul music and having a more upbeat tempo with emphasis on electric bass and guitar rather than on horns.
- rye whiskey — rye1 (defs 4, 5).
- safety hook — a hook that can be transformed into an eye by locking a hinged piece in place.
- safety lock — a lock designed to prevent picking.
- say kaddish — to be a mourner
- semi-weekly — occurring, done, appearing, or published twice a week: semiweekly visits.