9-letter words containing sk
- skin game — a dishonest or unscrupulous business operation, scheme, etc.
- skin test — a test in which a substance is introduced into the skin, as by application to a purposely abraded area or by injection, for the detection of allergic sensitivity to a specific pollen, protein, etc., or of the presence of a disease.
- skin-deep — superficial or slight; not profound or substantial: Their sincerity is only skin-deep.
- skin-dive — to engage in skin diving.
- skinflick — film containing much nudity and sex
- skinflint — a mean, niggardly person; miser.
- skintight — fitting almost as tightly as skin: skintight trousers.
- skip rope — A skip rope is a piece of rope, usually with handles at each end. You exercise or play with it by turning it around and around and jumping over it.
- skip zone — a region surrounding a broadcasting station that cannot receive transmissions either directly or by reflection off the ionosphere
- skip-bomb — to attack (a target) by skip bombing.
- skippable — able to be skipped, omitted, or passed over without loss; unimportant.
- skirtings — fabric for making skirts.
- skirtless — having, or wearing, no skirt
- skirtlike — resembling a skirt
- skittered — to go, run, or glide lightly or rapidly.
- skull cap — A skull cap is a small close-fitting cap.
- skull-cap — a small, brimless close-fitting cap, often made of silk or velvet, worn on the crown of the head, as for religious functions.
- 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.
- sky cover — the amount of the sky that is covered by clouds, fog, haze, smoke, or the like, usually expressed in tenths of the total sky.
- sky pilot — a member of the clergy, especially a chaplain of the armed forces.
- sky train — elevated railway system
- sky-pilot — a member of the clergy, especially a chaplain of the armed forces.
- skybridge — Also called skywalk. a bridgelike structure for pedestrians built to link one building with another over a public alley or street.
- skydiving — the sport of jumping from an airplane at a moderate or high altitude and free-falling and using one's body to control direction or movements before opening one's parachute.
- skylarker — a brown-speckled European lark, Alauda arvensis, famed for its melodious song.
- skylounge — a vehicle designed to be lifted by helicopter between an intown passenger terminal and an airport.
- skyrocket — a rocket firework that ascends into the air and explodes at a height, usually in a brilliant array of sparks of one or more colors.
- slavenska — Mia [mee-ah] /ˈmi ɑ/ (Show IPA), (Mia Corak) 1914?–2002, U.S. dancer and choreographer, born in Yugoslavia.
- slavyansk — a city in E central Ukraine, NW of Donetsk.
- slinkskin — the skin of a premature calf
- slovensko — Slovakia
- snakeskin — the skin of a snake.
- speranski — Mikhail Mikhailovich (mixɑˈil). 1772–1839, Russian statesman, chief adviser (1807–12) to Alexander I. His greatest achievement was the codification of Russian law (begun 1826)
- stokowski — Leopold Antoni Stanislaw [lee-uh-pohld ahn-toh-nee stah-nee-slahf] /ˈli əˌpoʊld ɑnˈtoʊ ni stɑˈni slɑf/ (Show IPA), 1882–1977, U.S. orchestra conductor, born in England.
- supertask — a paradox resulting from the notion that a task requiring an infinite number of steps could be performed in a finite time by halving the duration of each step.
- swim mask — mask (def 3).
- tail skid — a runner under the tail of an airplane.
- tarkovsky — Andrei (ˈɑndrej). 1932–86, Soviet film director, whose films include Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1971), Nostalgia (1983), and The Sacrifice (1986)
- task-work — work assigned or imposed as a task.
- thickskin — a person lacking sensitivity or delicacy of feeling
- thin skin — sensitivity to criticism
- ulyanovsk — a city in the W Russian Federation, on the Volga River: birthplace of Lenin.
- unmasking — to strip a mask or disguise from.
- 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
- ussuriisk — a city in the SE Russian Federation in Asia.
- veldskoen — an ankle-length boot of soft but strong rawhide