11-letter words containing sk
- exoskeleton — A rigid external covering for the body in some invertebrate animals, especially arthropods, providing both support and protection.
- floppy disk — Computers. a thin plastic disk coated with magnetic material, on which computer data and programs can be stored for later retrieval.
- free skater — a person who takes part in a figure-skating competition
- grass skirt — a skirt made from long grass, typically worn by female dancers from some Pacific islands
- hand-basket — a small basket with a handle for carrying by hand.
- handbaskets — Plural form of handbasket.
- health risk — something that could cause harm to people's health
- heli-skiing — skiing in which skiers are transported by helicopter to remote slopes
- hot-desking — the practice of not assigning permanent desks in a workplace, so that employees may work at any available desk
- husk tomato — ground cherry (def 1).
- husk-tomato — ground-cherry
- husking bee — a gathering of farm families or friends to husk corn, usually as part of a celebration or party.
- ice-skating — If you go ice-skating, you move about on ice wearing ice-skates. This activity is also a sport.
- kapuskasing — a town in central Ontario, in S Canada.
- karl jansky — Karl Guthe, 1905–50, U.S. engineer: pioneer in radio astronomy.
- khmelnitsky — a city in W Ukraine, SW of Kiev.
- krasnoyarsk — a territory of the Russian Federation in N and central Asia. 827,507 sq. mi. (2,143,243 sq. km).
- kwasniewski — Aleksander [ah-lek-sahn-der] /ˌɑ lɛkˈsɑn dɛr/ (Show IPA), born 1954, Polish journalist and politician: president of Poland 1995–.
- landsknecht — a European mercenary foot soldier of the 16th century, armed with a pike or halberd.
- leopardskin — the skin of a leopard
- life skills — everyday coping strategies
- lobachevski — Nikoˈlai Iˈvanovich (nikɔˈlaɪ iˈvɑnɔvɪtʃ ) ; nēk^ōlīˈ ēväˈn^ōvich) 1793-1856; Russ. mathematician
- lobachevsky — Nikolai Ivanovich [nyi-kuh-lahy ee-vah-nuh-vyich] /nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ iˈvɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1856, Russian mathematician.
- luskishness — the state or condition of being luskish
- lutosławski — Witold (ˈvitɔlt). 1913–94, Polish composer, whose works frequently juxtapose aleatoric and notated writing
- malt whisky — whisky, as Scotch, made entirely from malted barley.
- masked ball — a ball at which masks are worn.
- masson disk — a white disk on which a series of concentric gray circles appear to vanish intermittently when the disk is rotated, used for testing a person's fluctuation of attention and visual threshold.
- master disk — an original disk from which duplicates are made
- microskirts — Plural form of microskirt.
- miniskirted — Wearing a miniskirt.
- mixing desk — music: DJ's console
- moussorgsky — Modest Petrovich [moh-dest pi-troh-vich;; Russian muh-dyest pyi-traw-vyich] /moʊˈdɛst pɪˈtroʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian mʌˈdyɛst pyɪˈtrɔ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1839–81, Russian composer.
- mudskippers — Plural form of mudskipper.
- muleskinner — (slang)A mule driver.
- multitasked — Simple past tense and past participle of multitask.
- multitasker — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
- musk flower — a sticky-hairy plant, Mimulus moschata, of the figwort family, native to northern and western North America, having pale-yellow flowers and a musky odor.
- musk mallow — Also called musk rose. a European mallow, Malva moschata, introduced into North America, having musk-scented white or lavender flowers.
- musk orchid — a small Eurasian orchid, Herminium monorchis, with dense spikes of musk-scented greenish-yellow flowers
- musk turtle — any of several aquatic turtles of the genus Sternotherus, of North America, which, when disturbed, emit a musky secretion.
- muskallonge — muskellunge.
- muskellunge — a large game fish, Esox masquinongy, of the pike family, found in the lakes and rivers of eastern and middle western North America.
- nizhnekamsk — a city in the E Russian Federation in Europe, SE of Kazan.
- non-skilled — having skill; trained or experienced in work that requires skill.
- nonskeletal — of or pertaining to parts of the body other than the skeletal structure
- novosibirsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Asia, on the Ob.
- numbskulled — (informal) stupid.
- oxygen mask — a masklike device placed or worn over the nose and mouth when inhaling supplementary oxygen from an attached tank.
- pervouralsk — a city in the central RSFSR, in the Ural Mountains in Asia.