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9-letter words containing u, n, s, k

  • skean dhu — a small knife tucked into or worn against the top of a stocking in the full dress of Highland Scottish males.
  • skean-dhu — a small knife tucked into or worn against the top of a stocking in the full dress of Highland Scottish males.
  • skene dhu — skean dhu.
  • ski bunny — a female who greatly enjoys skiing
  • skunkbird — a North American songbird with a black-and-white striped back, also known as a bobolink
  • skunkweed — any of various plants having an unpleasant odor, as the skunk cabbage.
  • skylounge — a vehicle designed to be lifted by helicopter between an intown passenger terminal and an airport.
  • slam dunk — basketball: score from above rim
  • slam-dunk — Basketball. to dunk (the ball) with great force.
  • spelunked — to explore caves, especially as a hobby.
  • spelunker — a person who explores caves, especially as a hobby.
  • spun silk — yarn produced by spinning silk waste and short, broken filaments from which the sericin has been removed. Compare reeled silk.
  • sputnik 1 — an unmanned Soviet satellite launched in 1957, the first man-made satellite to orbit the earth
  • squawking — to utter a loud, harsh cry, as a duck or other fowl when frightened.
  • 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.
  • stenokous — able to live or survive only within a limited range of environments
  • 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.
  • suka wena — an expression of dismissal or rejection; go away
  • sulkiness — marked by or given to sulking; sullen.
  • sun block — a substance that provides a high degree of protection against sunburn, often preventing most tanning as well as burning, as by obstructing the penetration of ultraviolet rays.
  • sun-baked — Sun-baked land or earth has been made hard and dry by the sun shining on it.
  • sungkiang — Older Spelling. Songjiang.
  • sunk cost — A sunk cost is an expense that you have already paid for or committed to and which you cannot change.
  • sunseeker — a person who travels to a warm and sunny climate, especially during cold months.
  • sunstroke — a sudden and sometimes fatal affection due to exposure to the sun's rays or to excessive heat, marked by prostration with or without fever, convulsion, and coma.
  • sunstruck — affected with sunstroke.
  • superbank — a bank that owns other banks; an overarching banking organization
  • tank suit — a simple one-piece bathing suit for women, having a scoop neck and shoulder straps and usually no lining or inner construction; maillot.
  • trunkfish — any plectognath fish of the family Ostraciontidae, of warm seas, having a boxlike body encased in bony, polygonal plates.
  • trunkless — the main stem of a tree, as distinct from the branches and roots.
  • turkestan — a vast region in W and central Asia, E of the Caspian Sea: includes territory in the S central part of Xinjiang province in China (Eastern Turkestan or Chinese Turkestan) a strip of N Afghanistan, and the area (Russian Turkestan) comprising the republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan), Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan), Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
  • turkistan — a vast region in W and central Asia, E of the Caspian Sea: includes territory in the S central part of Xinjiang province in China (Eastern Turkestan or Chinese Turkestan) a strip of N Afghanistan, and the area (Russian Turkestan) comprising the republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan), Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan), Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
  • ulyanovsk — a city in the W Russian Federation, on the Volga River: birthplace of Lenin.
  • unbespeak — to annul or cancel a request
  • unbespoke — not prearranged
  • unbookish — not studious or bookish
  • unmasking — to strip a mask or disguise from.
  • unshackle — to free from shackles; unfetter.
  • unshaking — the act of a person or thing that shakes.
  • unshocked — not shocked
  • unsickled — not cut with a sickle
  • unskilful — not skillful; clumsy or bungling.
  • unskilled — of or relating to workers who lack technical training or skill.
  • unskimmed — to take up or remove (floating matter) from the surface of a liquid, as with a spoon or ladle: to skim the cream from milk.
  • unskinned — not having had the skin removed
  • unstalked — without a stalk or stalks.
  • unstocked — not having stock or stores
  • urokinase — an enzyme, present in the blood and urine of mammals, that activates plasminogen and is used medicinally to dissolve blood clots.
  • yuckiness — The state or condition of being yucky.
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