10-letter words containing sk
- microskirt — An extremely short skirt, ending just underneath the buttocks.
- middelskot — (in South Africa) an intermediate payment to a farmers' cooperative for a crop or wool clip
- mini-skirt — A mini-skirt is a very short skirt.
- miniskirts — Plural form of miniskirt.
- misknowing — Present participle of misknow.
- moszkowski — Moritz [mawr-its,, mohr-its] /ˈmɔr ɪts,, ˈmoʊr ɪts/ (Show IPA), 1854–1925, Polish composer and pianist.
- mudskipper — any of several gobies of the genera Periophthalmus and Boleophthalmus, of tropical seas from Africa to the East Indies and Japan, noted for the habit of remaining out of water on mud flats for certain periods and jumping about when disturbed.
- multiskill — requiring, involving or making use of several skills
- musk plant — a perennial North American plant (Mimulus moschatus) of the figwort family, with yellow tubular flowers and, sometimes, a musky odor
- musketeers — Plural form of musketeer.
- muskmelons — Plural form of muskmelon.
- mussorgsky — Modest Petrovich [moh-dest pi-troh-vich;; Russian muh-dyest pyi-traw-vyich] /moʊˈdɛst pɪˈtroʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian mʌˈdyɛst pyɪˈtrɔ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Moussorgsky, Modest Petrovich.
- numbskulls — Plural form of numbskull.
- numskulled — Alternative form of numbskulled.
- optic disk — blind spot (sense 1)
- out-basket — out-box.
- paderewski — Ignace [French ee-nyas] /French iˈnyas/ (Show IPA), or Ignacy Jan [Polish ig-nah-tsi yahn] /Polish ɪgˈnɑ tsɪ yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1860–1941, Polish pianist, composer, patriot, and statesman.
- paraskiing — the sport of jumping off high mountains wearing skis and a light parachute composed of inflatable fabric tubes that form a semirigid wing
- perovskite — a naturally occurring titanate of calcium, CaTiO 3 , found as yellow, brown, or black cubic crystals, usually in metamorphic rocks.
- piatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
- poltoratsk — a city in and the capital of Turkmenistan, in the S central part, near the Iranian border.
- proskomide — prothesis (def 2a).
- pyatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
- raskolniki — a member of any of several sects founded by dissenters from the Russian Orthodox Church who opposed the liturgical reforms of Nikon in the 17th century.
- ratskeller — the cellar of a town hall, esp one used as a beer hall or restaurant
- red siskin — a South American finch (Carduelis cucullata) with a black head and red body, sometimes kept as a cage bird
- run a risk — exposure to the chance of injury or loss; a hazard or dangerous chance: It's not worth the risk.
- samarskite — a velvet-black mineral, a complex columbate-tantalate of uranium, cerium, etc., occurring in masses: a minor source of uranium, thorium, and rare-earth oxides.
- sanskritic — an Indo-European, Indic language, in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India. Abbreviation: Skt.
- savitskaya — Svetlana (svɛtˈlɑːnə). born 1949, Soviet cosmonaut, the first woman to walk in space (1984). She was elected to the former Soviet parliament (1989)
- scarf-skin — the outermost layer of the skin; epidermis.
- schafskopf — sheepshead (def 4).
- silverskin — the inner skin of a coffee bean
- skaithless — without injury or damage
- skara brae — the site of an excavated Neolithic village on Pomona in the Orkney Islands, dating from c2000 b.c.
- skate over — to cross on or as if on skates
- skate park — area for skateboarding
- skateboard — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
- skedaddler — a person or thing that skedaddles.
- skeletonic — resembling a skeleton
- skepticism — skeptical attitude or temper; doubt.
- sketch map — a rough map of the principal features of a locale, as one drawn from memory.
- sketch out — describe briefly
- sketchable — suitable for being sketched.
- sketchbook — Also, sketchpad. a book or pad of drawing paper for sketches.
- sketchiest — like a sketch; giving only outlines or essentials. Synonyms: cursory, rough, meager, crude.
- skeuomorph — an ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques, as an imitation metal rivet mark found on handles of prehistoric pottery.
- skew field — a ring in which the equations ax = b and xa = b have solutions for x.
- skew lines — two or more lines that lie in different planes, are not parallel, and do not intersect
- skewerwood — the spindle tree, Euonymus europaeus.