5-letter words starting with sk
- skaif — a wheel on which diamonds and other gems are ground or polished.
- skail — a scattering or dispersal
- skald — one of the ancient Scandinavian poets.
- skank — Slang. to dance rhythmically in a loose-limbed manner.
- skate — a person; fellow: He's a good skate.
- skatt — a throw
- skean — a knife or dagger formerly used in Ireland and in the Scottish Highlands.
- skeat — Walter William, 1835–1912, English philologist and lexicographer.
- skeed — one of a pair of long, slender runners made of wood, plastic, or metal used in gliding over snow.
- skeef — at an oblique angle; not straight
- skeen — the Himalayan ibex
- skeet — a hand consisting of a nine, five, two, and two other cards of denominations below nine but not of the same denomination, being of special value in certain games.
- skeif — a wheel on which diamonds and other gems are ground or polished.
- skein — a length of yarn or thread wound on a reel or swift preparatory for use in manufacturing.
- skelf — a splinter of wood, esp when embedded accidentally in the skin
- skell — a homeless person who lives on the streets, sleeps in doorways or subways, etc.; derelict.
- skelm — a villain or crook
- skelp — metal in strip form that is fed into various rolls and welded to form tubing.
- skene — (in the ancient Greek theater) a structure facing the audience and forming the background before which performances were given.
- skete — a settlement of monks or ascetics.
- skews — to turn aside or swerve; take an oblique course.
- skied — a simple past tense of sky.
- skien — a port in S Norway, on the Skien River: one of the oldest towns in Norway; timber industry. Pop: 50 507 (2004 est)
- skier — a person who skis.
- skies — plural of sky.
- skiey — skyey.
- skiff — any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person.
- skill — the ability, coming from one's knowledge, practice, aptitude, etc., to do something well: Carpentry was one of his many skills.
- skimo — an Inuit
- skimp — to scrimp.
- skink — any of numerous lizards of the family Scincidae, common in many regions of the Old and New World, typically having flat, smooth, overlapping scales and comprising terrestrial, arboreal, and fossorial species.
- skins — the external covering or integument of an animal body, especially when soft and flexible.
- skint — having no money; penniless.
- skirl — to play the bagpipe.
- skirr — to go rapidly; fly; scurry.
- skirt — the part of a gown, dress, slip, or coat that extends downward from the waist.
- skite — a quick, oblique blow or stroke; a chopping blow.
- skive — to split or cut, as leather, into layers or slices.
- skoal — a toast.
- skoda — Emil von [e-mil-fuh n] /ˈɛ mɪl fən/ (Show IPA), 1839–1900, Czech engineer and manufacturer of artillery.
- skoff — a stage of a journey
- skort — a women's garment resembling a short skirt but having individual leg sections usually covered by a flap in front.
- skosh — a bit; a jot: We need just a skosh more room.
- skran — food
- skrik — South African. a sudden fright or panic.
- skuld — any of three goddesses of fate, the goddess of the past (Urd) the goddess of the present (Verdandi) and the goddess of the future (Skuld)
- skulk — to lie or keep in hiding, as for some evil reason: The thief skulked in the shadows.
- skull — the bony framework of the head, enclosing the brain and supporting the face; the skeleton of the head.
- skunk — a small North American mammal, Mephitis mephitis, of the weasel family, having a black coat with a white, V -shaped stripe on the back, and ejecting a fetid odor when alarmed or attacked.
- skyer — a lofty hit of a cricket ball
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