8-letter words that end in sk
- abelmosk — a tropical bushy malvaceous plant, Hibiscus abelmoschus, cultivated for its yellow-and-crimson flowers and for its musk-scented seeds, which yield an oil used in perfumery
- alchevsk — a city in E Ukraine. Pop: 117 000 (2005 est)
- antimask — interlude in a masque
- asterisk — An asterisk is the sign *. It is used especially to indicate that there is further information about something in another part of the text.
- babruysk — a city in SE Belarus, in Europe, SE of Minsk.
- basilisk — (in classical legend) a serpent that could kill by its breath or glance
- bit mask — (programming) A pattern of binary values which is combined with some value using bitwise AND with the result that bits in the value in positions where the mask is zero are also set to zero. For example, if, in C, we want to test if bits 0 or 2 of x are set, we can write int mask = 5; /* binary 101 */ if (x & mask) ... A bit mask might also be used to set certain bits using bitwise OR, or to invert them using bitwise exclusive OR.
- bobruisk — a port in Belarus, on the River Berezina: engineering, timber, tyre manufacturing. Pop: 219 000 (2005 est)
- copydesk — desk where newspaper copy is edited
- cornhusk — the outer protective covering of an ear of maize; the chaff
- eggwhisk — A kitchen utensil made of multiple loops of wire used to beat eggs.
- facemask — a mask worn to prevent the inhalation of fumes, or to avoid spreading germs
- flywhisk — a device for brushing away flies, often made of horsehair.
- gas mask — a masklike device containing or attached to a component that filters the air inhaled by the wearer through charcoal and chemicals, for protecting the face and lungs against noxious gases and fumes, as in warfare or in certain industrial processes.
- headdesk — An expression of frustration or irritated disbelief, from the tendency of annoyed or irritated people to want to repeatedly bang their heads against their desk.
- helpdesk — Alternative spelling of help desk.
- hipflask — Alternative spelling of hip flask.
- hot-desk — If employees hot-desk, they are not assigned particular desks and work at any desk that is available.
- humoresk — humorous musical composition
- kuznetsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe.
- loo mask — a half-mask worn during the 18th century for masquerades, etc
- low-risk — A low-risk customer, risk, occupation, or property is not very likely to be exposed to a danger.
- lutefisk — dried cod tenderized by soaking in lye, which is rinsed out before cooking.
- monotask — to perform one task at a time
- murmansk — an ice-free seaport and railroad terminus in the NW Russian Federation, on the Murman Coast.
- newsdesk — the department of a newspaper, television, etc., that writes, edits, or releases news, especially late-breaking news or important bulletins.
- overtask — to impose too heavy a task upon
- pay desk — the counter in a shop where customers pay for goods
- 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.
- 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.
- sea risk — Often, sea risks. the hazard of traveling or transporting by sea.
- simbirsk — former name of Ulyanovsk.
- ski mask — a one-piece pullover covering for the head and face, generally of knitted material with holes for the eyes, the mouth, and sometimes the nose, originally worn by skiers and used to protect the face against cold and wind.
- smolensk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, on the upper Dnieper, SW of Moscow: Russians defeated by Napoleon 1812.
- stalinsk — former name of Novokuznetsk.
- sun disk — the disk of the sun.
- tamarisk — any Old World tropical plant of the genus Tamarix, especially T. gallica, an ornamental Mediterranean shrub or small tree having slender, feathery branches.
- zip disk — Zip Drive
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