12-letter words containing sk
- piston skirt — The piston skirt is the cylindrical walls of a piston.
- poodle skirt — 1950s-style woman's circular skirt
- powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
- racing skate — a tubular ice skate having a long blade extending beyond the heel and toe.
- reading desk — a desk for use in reading, especially by a person standing.
- reform flask — an English salt-glazed stoneware flask of the early 19th century formed as an effigy of one of the figures connected with the Reform Bill of 1832.
- risk capital — venture capital.
- risk manager — A risk manager is a person who works in risk management.
- risk pooling — Risk pooling is the practice of sharing all risks among a group of insurance companies.
- risk-benefit — involving studies, testing, etc., to establish whether the benefits, as of a course of medical treatment, outweigh the risks involved: to arrive at a risk-benefit ratio.
- risk-manager — the technique or profession of assessing, minimizing, and preventing accidental loss to a business, as through the use of insurance, safety measures, etc.
- roller-skate — to glide about by means of roller skates.
- rooter skunk — hog-nosed skunk (def 1).
- rostenkowski — Dan(iel) 1928–2010, U.S. politician: congressman 1959–94.
- salad basket — a basket in which washed salad greens are swung or spun to remove excess water.
- saskatchewan — a province in W Canada. 251,700 sq. mi. (651,900 sq. km). Capital: Regina.
- scratch disk — 1. (storage) See scratch. 2. (operating system) Unallocated space on Windows 95's primary hard disk partition, used for virtual memory. Shortage of space on this partition can result in the error "scratch disk full".
- semi-skilled — A semi-skilled worker has some training and skills, but not enough to do specialized work.
- semi-skimmed — (of milk) having part of the cream removed, so it contains less animal fat and fewer calories than full cream milk
- seraskierate — the headquarters of the seraskier, located in Constantinople; the Turkish War Office
- severodvinsk — a city in the N Russian Federation in Europe, on Dvina Gulf, E of Archangel.
- skateboarder — person who rides skateboard
- skating rink — arena for ice skating
- skating turn — a turn made by someone on roller or ice skates
- skeeter hawk — mosquito hawk.
- skeleton bob — a small sledge for racing over a frozen track, steered by the rider by movements of the head and shoulders
- skeleton car — a freight car essentially consisting of a central longitudinal girder fastened to the trucks, sometimes supplemented by one or more pairs of cross cantilevers: used for carrying logs or containers.
- skeleton key — a key with nearly the whole substance of the bit filed away so that it may open various locks.
- skeleton law — a framework or basic outline of law or rule
- skeleton map — a map showing only basic details of a land, place, etc
- skeletonizer — any of numerous insect species that reduce leaves to a skeleton
- skelic index — the ratio of the length of the leg to the length of the torso of a person, multiplied by 100.
- skelmersdale — a town in NW England, in Lancashire: designated a new town in 1962. Pop: 39 279 (2001)
- sketch-books — Also, sketchpad. a book or pad of drawing paper for sketches.
- skeuomorphic — 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 polygon — the figure formed by joining four or more points, not all in one plane, by the same number of lines
- ski trousers — warm padded trousers used for skiing
- skiing pants — warm, waterproof, protective trousers worn while skiing
- skillessness — the lack of skill
- skimmed milk — milk from which the cream has been skimmed.
- skin disease — condition affecting the skin
- skip welding — a technique of spacing welds on thin structural members in order to balance and minimize internal stresses due to heat.
- skirt chaser — a womanizer.
- skirt length — the length of someone's skirt
- skirt-chaser — a womanizer.
- skivvy-shirt — Also called skivvy shirt. a man's cotton T-shirt.
- skullduggery — skulduggery.
- skutterudite — a mineral, chiefly cobalt and nickel arsenide, (Co,Ni)As 3 , with some iron, occurring in the form of gray cubic crystals, usually in masses: a source of cobalt and nickel.
- skye terrier — one of a Scottish breed of small terriers having short legs and a dark or light blue-gray, gray, or fawn coat.
- slipped disk — herniated disk.