9-letter words containing y, a, k
- skanky-ho — a promiscuous woman
- skiascopy — retinoscope.
- sky train — elevated railway system
- skylarker — a brown-speckled European lark, Alauda arvensis, famed for its melodious song.
- slack-key — a style of Hawaiian popular music played on an acoustic guitar with strings tuned to notes lower than standard guitar tuning for more bass resonance.
- slavyansk — a city in E central Ukraine, NW of Donetsk.
- snake fly — any neuropterous insect of the family Raphidiidae, of western North America, having an elongated prothorax resembling a neck.
- soakingly — so as to saturate or soak
- sock away — to strike or hit hard.
- sokemanry — tenure of land subject to the soke of someone else.
- speakeasy — a saloon or nightclub selling alcoholic beverages illegally, especially during Prohibition.
- squeak by — a short, sharp, shrill cry; a sharp, high-pitched sound.
- squeakery — a squeaking quality, manner, or action
- staymaker — a corset maker, a maker of stays
- stockyard — an enclosure with pens, sheds, etc., connected with a slaughterhouse, railroad, market, etc., for the temporary housing of cattle, sheep, swine, or horses.
- sway-back — an excessive downward curvature of the spinal column in the dorsal region, especially of horses.
- syktyvkar — an autonomous republic in the NW Russian Federation in Europe. 145,221 sq. mi. (376,122 sq. km). Capital: Syktyvkar.
- synkaryon — a nucleus formed by the fusion of two preexisting nuclei.
- take away — something taken back or away, especially an employee benefit that is eliminated or substantially reduced by the terms of a union contract.
- take-away — something taken back or away, especially an employee benefit that is eliminated or substantially reduced by the terms of a union contract.
- talk away — to pass (a period of time) by talking
- tarkovsky — Andrei (ˈɑndrej). 1932–86, Soviet film director, whose films include Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1971), Nostalgia (1983), and The Sacrifice (1986)
- thackeray — William Makepeace [meyk-pees] /ˈmeɪkˌpis/ (Show IPA), 1811–63, English novelist, born in India.
- thank you — expressing one's gratitude or thanks: a thank-you note.
- thank-you — expressing one's gratitude or thanks: a thank-you note.
- thinkably — in a thinkable or conceivable manner
- thylakoid — a flattened sac or vesicle lined with a pigmented membrane that is the site of photosynthesis, in plants and algae occurring in interconnected stacks constituting a granum of the chloroplast, and in other photosynthesizing organisms occurring either singly or as part of the cell membrane or other structure.
- tick away — time: pass
- tokyo bay — an inlet of the Pacific, in SE Honshu Island of Japan. 30 miles (48 km) long; 20 miles (32 km) wide.
- toy maker — a person who makes objects that children play with, for example dolls or a model cars
- trafficky — (of a street, area, town, etc) busy with motor vehicles
- tuck away — to put into a small, close, or concealing place: Tuck the money into your wallet.
- tyremaker — a person or company that makes tyres
- ulyanovsk — a city in the W Russian Federation, on the Volga River: birthplace of Lenin.
- valkyrian — any of the beautiful maidens attendant upon Odin who bring the souls of slain warriors chosen by Odin or Tyr to Valhalla and there wait upon them.
- van dyken — Amy, born 1973, U.S. swimmer.
- wakefully — In a wakeful manner.
- walk away — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
- walkaways — Plural form of walkaway.
- warlockry — witchcraft
- water key — a lever to drain saliva from a brass musical instrument, as the trombone.
- waymarked — Marked with a waymark.
- wikiality — a version of facts which is agreed to be true, but which may not coincide with objective reality
- workmanly — Befitting a workman; skilful; workmanlike.
- yale lock — a type of cylinder lock using a flat serrated key
- yankeedom — the region inhabited by Yankees.
- yankeeism — Yankee character or characteristics.
- yanktonai — a member of one of two tribes of Dakota Indian people who inhabited the northern Great Plains in the 18th and 19th centuries. Compare Yankton (def 1).
- yardstick — a stick a yard long, commonly marked with subdivisions, used for measuring.
- yarmulkes — Plural form of yarmulke.