9-letter words containing sk
- deskilled — Simple past tense and past participle of deskill.
- deskinned — Simple past tense and past participle of deskin.
- disjasked — dilapidated; decayed; broken.
- disjaskit — fatigued or rundown
- disk farm — (jargon) (Or "laundromat") A large room or rooms filled with disk drives (especially washing machines).
- disk pack — a cylinder containing several magnetic disks that can be installed in or removed from a disk drive as a unit: used for data storage and retrieval.
- diskettes — Plural form of diskette.
- duskiness — somewhat dark; having little light; dim; shadowy.
- eduskunta — the Finnish parliament in Helsinki
- egg whisk — An egg whisk is a piece of kitchen equipment used for mixing the different parts of an egg together.
- eskişehir — an industrial city in NW Turkey: founded around hot springs in Byzantine times. Pop: 519 000 (2005 est)
- face mask — Sports. the protective equipment, usually made of steel or plastic, that guards the face, as the steel cage worn by a baseball catcher or the molded plastic covering worn by a hockey goalkeeper.
- fire risk — sth which increases chance of a fire
- fish skin — a condom.
- flywhisks — Plural form of flywhisk.
- foreskins — Plural form of foreskin.
- foreskirt — the front skirt of an article of clothing (as opposed to the train)
- forjaskit — exhausted
- forskolin — (biochemistry) A labdane diterpene produced by the plant Coleus forskohlii; commonly used in the study and research of cell physiology.
- gaitskell — Hugh Todd Naylor [ney-ler] /ˈneɪ lər/ (Show IPA), 1906–63, English economist and statesman: Labour party leader 1955–63.
- goatskins — Plural form of goatskin.
- goldovsky — Boris [bawr-is,, bohr-,, bor-;; Russian buh-ryees] /ˈbɔr ɪs,, ˈboʊr-,, ˈbɒr-;; Russian bʌˈryis/ (Show IPA), 1908–2001, U.S. conductor, pianist, and opera director, born in Russia.
- grunitsky — Nicolas, 1913–69, African statesman: president of the Republic of Togo 1963–67.
- hard disk — magnetic disk (def 1).
- haskell b — (language) An early version of Haskell by Lennart Augustsson <[email protected]> from Chalmers. Haskell B evolved into a full-featured implementation of Haskell 1.2, with quite a few extensions. Ports exist for many platforms including Sun, DEC, Sequent, IBM PC, Symmetry and unsupported versions for NS32000, IBM RT/PC, Cray, Sun-3, Vax, ARM, and RS/6000. Version 0.999.5 included a compiler, interpreter, library, documentation, and examples. Mailing list: <[email protected]>. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- help desk — A help desk is a special service that you can telephone or e-mail in order to get information about a particular product or subject.
- heyrovsky — Jaroslav [yah-raw-slahf] /ˈyɑ rɔ slɑf/ (Show IPA), 1890–1967, Czech chemist: Nobel Prize 1959.
- high-risk — very dangerous
- hip flask — small container for carrying alcohol
- hit skins — to have sexual intercourse
- hounskull — a snoutlike, usually conical, visor attached to a basinet of the 14th century.
- huskiness — big and strong; burly.
- huskisson — William, 1770–1830, British statesman and financier.
- hydro-ski — a hydrofoil attached to a seaplane to aid in takeoffs and landings.
- i ask you — If you say 'I ask you', you are emphasizing how much you disapprove of someone or something.
- ice-skate — to skate on ice.
- imbosking — Present participle of imbosk.
- in-basket — in-box.
- intertask — Between tasks.
- iron mask — an iron covering for the face, supposedly used in the past to conceal the identity of a well-known prisoner
- jawlensky — Alexej von [ah-le-ksey fuh n] /ˌɑ lɛˈkseɪ fən/ (Show IPA), 1864?–1941, German painter, born in Russia.
- jyvaskyla — a city in S central Finland.
- kaczynski — Lech. 1949–2010, Polish politician, president of Poland (2005–10)
- kandinsky — Wassily [vas-uh-lee] /ˈvæs ə li/ (Show IPA), or Vasili [vas-uh-lee,, vuh-sil-ee;; Russian vuh-syee-lyee] /ˈvæs ə li,, vəˈsɪl i;; Russian vʌˈsyi lyi/ (Show IPA), 1866–1944, Russian painter.
- kaskaskia — a river in E central Illinois, flowing SW to the Mississippi River. 320 miles (515 km) long.
- kazatskes — a lively, Slavic folk dance for a solo male dancer, marked especially by the prisiadka.
- kecskemet — a city in central Hungary.
- kiselevsk — a city in the S Russian Federation in Asia.
- korzybski — Alfred (Habdank Skarbek) [hab-dangk skahr-bek;; Polish hahp-dahngk skahr-bek] /ˈhæb dæŋk ˈskɑr bɛk;; Polish ˈhɑp dɑŋk ˈskɑr bɛk/ (Show IPA), 1879–1950, U.S. writer on general semantics, born in Poland.
- kosciusko — Thaddeus (Tadeusz Andrzej Bonawentura Kościuszko) 1746–1817, Polish patriot: general in the American Revolutionary army.