8-letter words containing sk
- musketry — Military. the technique of bringing fire from a group of rifle and automatic weapons to bear on specified targets.
- muskogee — a city in E Oklahoma.
- muskoxen — Plural form of muskox.
- muskrats — Plural form of muskrat.
- muskroot — The root of Ferula sumbul, a tall umbelliferous plant, formerly used in medicine and as a substitute for musk.
- nagurski — Bronislaw [bron-uh-slof] /ˈbrɒn əˌslɒf/ (Show IPA), ("Bronko") 1908–1990, U.S. football player, born in Canada.
- namaskar — Respectful greetings.
- nebraska — a state in the central United States. 77,237 sq. mi. (200,044 sq. km). Capital: Lincoln. Abbreviation: NE (for use with zip code), Nebr., Neb.
- newsdesk — the department of a newspaper, television, etc., that writes, edits, or releases news, especially late-breaking news or important bulletins.
- nijinsky — Vaslav or Waslaw [vah-sluh f] /ˈvɑ sləf/ (Show IPA), 1890–1950, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer.
- non-sked — a nonscheduled airline or plane: He got his training with the nonskeds.
- nonskier — a person who does not ski
- numskull — a dull-witted or stupid person; dolt.
- obelisks — Plural form of obelisk.
- oilskins — A waterproof garment, made from oilskin, used especially at sea.
- oldskool — Adhering to an original field of practice.
- oriskany — a village in central New York, near Utica: battle 1777.
- outskate — (ice hockey, skating) To skate better than another skater.
- outskirt — Often, outskirts. the outlying district or region, as of a city, metropolitan area, or the like: to live on the outskirts of town; a sparsely populated outskirt.
- overskip — to skip over
- overtask — to impose too heavy a task upon
- panofsky — Erwin, 1892–1968, U.S. art historian, born in Germany.
- pay desk — the counter in a shop where customers pay for goods
- polanski — Roman. born 1933, Polish film director with a taste for the macabre, as in Repulsion (1965) and Rosemary's Baby (1968): later films include Tess (1980), Death and the Maiden (1995), and The Pianist (2002)
- ponyskin — the leather from a pony hide
- ram disk — (operating system, storage) A memory-resident program which mimics a hard disk drive. It uses part of computer's RAM to store data which can be accessed as files. Unlike a real disk drive, this drive forgets all stored data when the computer is turned off.
- ratatosk — An SLR parser generator written in Gofer (a Haskell variant) by Torben AEgidius Mogensen <[email protected]>. Ratatosk generates purely functional backtracking LR0 grammar parsers (also in Gofer). Even though the sematic value of a production is a function of the attributes of its right-hand side (and thus apparently purely synthesised), inherited attributes are easily simulated by using higher-order functions.
- resketch — to sketch again
- rimouski — a city in SE Quebec, in SE Canada, on the St. Lawrence River.
- riskless — free of risk
- roskilde — a city on the island of Zealand, in E Denmark: a suburb of Copenhagen.
- sandusky — a port in N Ohio, on Lake Erie.
- sanskrit — an Indo-European, Indic language, in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India. Abbreviation: Skt.
- satyrisk — a small satyr
- scandisk — (operating system, storage) An MS-DOS command to check for faults on a disk and provide a graphical representation the results. Scandisk was introduced with MS-DOS version 6 to replace CHKDSK.
- schapska — a cavalry helmet with a flat, square top
- sea risk — Often, sea risks. the hazard of traveling or transporting by sea.
- sealskin — the skin of a seal.
- seversky — Alexander Procofieff de [pruh-koh-fee-ef duh] /prəˈkoʊ fiˌɛf də/ (Show IPA), 1894–1974, U.S. airplane designer, manufacturer, and writer; born in Russia.
- sikorski — Władysław (ˈvlædɪslæf). 1881–1943, Polish general and statesman: prime minister (1922–23) and prime minister of the Polish government in exile during World War II: died in an air crash
- sikorsky — Igor [ee-gawr] /ˈi gɔr/ (Show IPA), 1889–1972, U.S. aeronautical engineer, born in Russia.
- simbirsk — former name of Ulyanovsk.
- skeechan — a beer of treacle and malt liquor
- skeeting — to spit (saliva or a mouthful of other liquid) from the mouth, especially between the teeth.
- skeletal — of, relating to, or like a skeleton.
- skeleton — Anatomy, Zoology. the bones of a human or an animal considered as a whole, together forming the framework of the body.
- skelloch — a shriek
- skerrick — a small piece or quantity; a bit: Not even a skerrick of cake was left.
- sketcher — a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, especially a preliminary one, giving the essential features without the details.
- skewback — a sloping surface against which the end of an arch rests.