6-letter words containing s, y, k
- skivvy — Also called skivvy shirt. a man's cotton T-shirt.
- skolly — a Coloured hooligan, usually one of a gang
- skryer — someone who practises skrying
- skunky — of, relating to, or characteristic of a skunk: a skunky odor.
- skurry — to hurry or flurry about
- sky ad — an advertisement on a large banner, towed behind an aeroplane so that it can be viewed by people on the ground
- skybox — a private compartment, usually near the top of a stadium, for viewing a sports contest.
- skycap — a porter who carries passenger baggage at an airport or airline terminal.
- skying — the region of the clouds or the upper air; the upper atmosphere of the earth: airplanes in the sky; cloudy skies.
- skyish — like the sky
- skylab — a U.S. earth-orbiting space station that was periodically staffed by three separate crews of astronauts and remained in orbit 1973–79.
- skyman — an aviator or paratrooper.
- skyros — a Greek island in the W Aegean: the largest island of the Northern Sporades. 81 sq. mi. (210 sq. km).
- skyway — air lane.
- sleeky — sleek; smooth.
- slinky — characterized by or proceeding with slinking or stealthy movements.
- smirky — resembling a smirk
- smokey — an officer or officers of a state highway patrol.
- snarky — testy or irritable; short.
- sneaky — like or suggestive of a sneak; furtive; deceitful.
- sparky — emitting or producing sparks.
- spooky — like or befitting a spook or ghost; suggestive of spooks.
- spunky — plucky; spirited.
- stalky — abounding in stalks.
- sticky — having the property of adhering, as glue; adhesive.
- stinky — foul smelling; stinking.
- stocky — of solid and sturdy form or build; thick-set and, usually, short.
- swanky — elegant or ostentatious; swank.
- syskey — (cryptography, operating system, security) A utility that encrpyts the hashed password information in a SAM database using a 128-bit encryption key. SYSKEY was an optional feature added in Windows NT 4.0 SP3. It was meant to protect against offline password cracking attacks so that the SAM database would still be secure even if someone had a copy of it. However, in December 1999, a security team from BindView found a security hole in SYSKEY which indicates that a certain form of cryptoanalytic attack is possible offline. A brute-force attack then appeared to be possible. Microsoft later collaborated with BindView to issue a fix (dubbed the 'Syskey Bug') which appears to have been settled and SYSKEY pronounced secure enough to resist brute-force attack. According to Todd Sabin of the BindView team RAZOR, the pre-RC3 versions of Windows 2000 were also affected.
- tykish — of, relating to, or characteristic of a tyke
- whisky — an alcoholic liquor distilled from a fermented mash of grain, as barley, rye, or corn, and usually containing from 43 to 50 percent alcohol.
- yaksha — (Buddhism) a spirit that watches over the treasures hidden in the earth and tree roots.
- yapoks — Plural form of yapok.
- yerkes — Charles Tyson, 1837–1905, U.S. financier and mass-transit magnate.
- yoicks — Used by fox hunters to urge on the hounds.
- yokels — Plural form of yokel.
- yokuts — a member of a North American Indian group of small tribes speaking related dialects and occupying the San Joaquin Valley of California and the adjoining eastern foothill regions. Nearly all the Valley Yokuts are extinct; some foothill groups remain.