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9-letter words containing t, i, n, k

  • pakistani — a native or inhabitant of Pakistan.
  • partaking — to take or have a part or share along with others; participate (usually followed by in): He won't partake in the victory celebration.
  • phenakite — a very hard, glassy, rhombohedral mineral, Be2SiO4, of various colors, sometimes used as a gem; beryllium silicate
  • picketing — a post, stake, pale, or peg that is used in a fence or barrier, to fasten down a tent, etc.
  • pickthank — a person who seeks favor by flattery or gossip; sycophant.
  • pink coat — the coat, usually scarlet, of the hunt uniform worn by the staff and by male members of the hunt.
  • pink root — a disease of onions and other plants, characterized by pink, withered roots, caused by a fungus, Pyrenochaeta terrestris.
  • pinkerton — Allan, 1819–84, U.S. detective, born in Scotland.
  • plantlike — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
  • pocketing — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
  • pontianak — a seaport on W Kalimantan (Borneo), in central Indonesia.
  • predikant — a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, esp in South Africa
  • printback — an enlarged print from a microfilm copy.
  • racketing — Slang. an occupation, livelihood, or business. an easy or profitable source of livelihood.
  • rainstick — a musical instrument consisting of a tube filled with sand or pebbles, which is inverted to produce a sound
  • rankshift — (in systemic linguistics) to use a unit as a constituent of another unit of the same or lower rank on the rank scale, as in using the phrase next door within the phrase the boy next door or the clause that you met yesterday within the phrase the girl that you met yesterday.
  • rethinker — a person who rethinks
  • rickstand — a platform on which to put or make a rick or haystack
  • schnittke — Alfred, 1934–1998, Russian composer.
  • sick note — proof of illness
  • sink tidy — a container with holes in the bottom, kept in the sink to retain rubbish that might clog the plug hole
  • sink unit — a fitted unit that consists of a sink, draining board and cupboards underneath
  • sketch in — If you sketch in details about something, you tell them to people.
  • sketching — a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, especially a preliminary one, giving the essential features without the details.
  • ski pants — pants worn for skiing, having the legs tapered to fit snugly at the ankles and sometimes having a strap going under the arch, often made of a stretch or waterproof fabric.
  • skin test — a test in which a substance is introduced into the skin, as by application to a purposely abraded area or by injection, for the detection of allergic sensitivity to a specific pollen, protein, etc., or of the presence of a disease.
  • skinflint — a mean, niggardly person; miser.
  • skintight — fitting almost as tightly as skin: skintight trousers.
  • skirtings — fabric for making skirts.
  • sky train — elevated railway system
  • 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.
  • sooterkin — the mythical black afterbirth of Dutch women that was believed to result from their warming themselves on stoves
  • sputnik 1 — an unmanned Soviet satellite launched in 1957, the first man-made satellite to orbit the earth
  • steenkirk — a type of cravat worn in a loose or disorderly manner
  • steinbeck — John (Ernst) [urnst] /ɜrnst/ (Show IPA), 1902–68, U.S. novelist: Nobel prize 1962.
  • steinkern — the fossilized outline of a hollow organic structure, as a skull or a mollusk shell, formed when mud or sediment consolidated within the structure and the structure itself disintegrated or dissolved.
  • stick pin — a decorative straight pin with a jeweled or ornamented head and a long shaft with a sheath for encasing the point, used for holding an ascot or necktie in place.
  • stickling — the act or practice of making insistent demands
  • stink bug — any of numerous broad, flat bugs of the family Pentatomidae, that emit a disagreeable odor.
  • stink out — to emit a strong offensive smell.
  • stinkaroo — something markedly inferior in quality: a stinkaroo of a motion picture.
  • stinkball — stinkpot (def 1).
  • stinkeroo — a bad or contemptible person or thing
  • stinkhorn — any of various rank-smelling, brown-capped mushrooms of the genus Phallus, especially P. impudicus.
  • stinkiest — foul smelling; stinking.
  • stinkweed — any of various rank-smelling plants, as the jimson weed.
  • stinkwood — any of several trees yielding fetid wood.
  • stockinet — Also, stockinet. a stretchy, machine-knitted fabric used for making undergarments, infants' wear, etc.
  • streaking — a long, narrow mark, smear, band of color, or the like: streaks of mud.
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