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.