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Words starting with silk

4 letter words starting with silk

  • silk — the soft, lustrous fiber obtained as a filament from the cocoon of the silkworm.
  • silk cotton — the silky covering of the seeds of certain tropical trees of the bombax family, used for stuffing cushions, pillows, etc.
  • silk factory — plant where silk fabric is produced
  • silk finish — the appearance of paint, fabric etc with regard to its smoothness and light reflecting quality
  • silk gland — any of several glands, as in various insects and spiders, that secrete a viscid protein substance which hardens into silk on contact with air.

5 letter words starting with silk

  • silko — Leslie Marmon [mahr-muh n] /ˈmɑr mən/ (Show IPA), born 1948, U.S. poet, novelist, and short-story writer.
  • silky — of or like silk; smooth, lustrous, soft, or delicate: silky skin.
  • silky anteater — an arboreal, tropical American anteater, Cyclopes didactylus, about the size of a rat, having a prehensile tail, glossy, golden fur, and two toes on each forelimb.
  • silky cornel — a cornel, Cornus amomum, of the eastern U.S., having leaves covered with short, silky hairs on the underside and bearing blue berries.
  • silky flycatcher — any of several passerine birds of the family Ptilogonatidae, of the southwestern U.S. to Panama, related to the waxwings.

6 letter words starting with silk

  • silken — made of silk.
  • silkie — a mythical creature that looks like a seal in water but assumes human form on land.

7 letter words starting with silk

  • silking — the soft, lustrous fiber obtained as a filament from the cocoon of the silkworm.

8 letter words starting with silk

  • silktail — the waxwing
  • silkweed — any milkweed, the pods of which contain a silky down.
  • silkworm — the larva of the Chinese silkworm moth, Bombyx mori, which spins a cocoon of commercially valuable silk.
  • silkworm moth — any of several moths of the families Bombycidae and Saturniidae, the larvae of which are silkworms.

9 letter words starting with silk

  • silkaline — a soft, thin cotton fabric with a smooth finish, for curtains, bedspreads, garment linings, etc.
  • silkoline — a silk-like fabric

10 letter words starting with silk

  • silkgrower — a person who breeds silkworms for their silk
  • silkscreen — Also called silkscreen process. a printmaking technique in which a mesh cloth is stretched over a heavy wooden frame and the design, painted on the screen by tusche or affixed by stencil, is printed by having a squeegee force color through the pores of the material in areas not blocked out by a glue sizing.

11 letter words starting with silk

  • silk-screen — Silk-screen printing is a method of printing patterns onto cloth by forcing paint or dyes through silk or similar material.
  • silk-tassel — any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Garrya, of the western U.S., having evergreen foliage and flowers in pendulous catkins.
  • silk-cotton tree — any of several spiny trees belonging to the genus Ceiba, of the bombax family, having palmately compound leaves and seeds surrounded by silk cotton, especially C. pentandra, from which kapok is obtained.
  • silk-screen print — a type of print made with a stencil and a fine mesh screen. Ink is applied to and forced through the small holes in the screen leaving the covered area free from ink
  • silk-screen process — Also called silkscreen process. a printmaking technique in which a mesh cloth is stretched over a heavy wooden frame and the design, painted on the screen by tusche or affixed by stencil, is printed by having a squeegee force color through the pores of the material in areas not blocked out by a glue sizing.

13 letter words starting with silk

On this page, we collect all words starting with SILK. To make easier to find the right word we have divided all 38 words to groups according to their length. So you should go to appropriate page if can’t find the word that beginning with SILK. that you are searching. Also you can use this page in Scrabble.

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