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5 letter words starting with sk

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  • SKAGS
  • SKAIL
  • SKALD
  • SKANK
  • SKARN
  • SKART
  • SKATE
  • SKATS
  • SKATT
  • SKAWS
  • SKEAN
  • SKEAR
  • SKEDS
  • SKEED
  • SKEEF
  • SKEEN
  • SKEER
  • SKEES
  • SKEET
  • SKEEV
  • SKEEZ
  • SKEGG
  • SKEGS
  • SKEIN
  • SKELF
  • SKELL
  • SKELM
  • SKELP
  • SKENE
  • SKENS
  • SKEOS
  • SKEPS
  • SKERM
  • SKERS
  • SKETS
  • SKEWS
  • SKIDS
  • SKIED
  • SKIER
  • SKIES
  • SKIEY
  • SKIFF
  • SKILL
  • SKIMO
  • SKIMP
  • SKIMS
  • SKINK
  • SKINS
  • SKINT
  • SKIOS
  • SKIPS
  • SKIRL
  • SKIRR
  • SKIRT
  • SKITE
  • SKITS
  • SKIVE
  • SKIVY
  • SKLIM
  • SKOAL
  • SKOBE
  • SKODY
  • SKOFF
  • SKOFS
  • SKOGS
  • SKOLS
  • SKOOL
  • SKORT
  • SKOSH
  • SKRAN
  • SKRIK
  • SKROO
  • SKUAS
  • SKUGS
  • SKULK
  • SKULL
  • SKUNK
  • SKYED
  • SKYER
  • SKYEY
  • SKYFS
  • SKYRE
  • SKYRS
  • SKYTE

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Definition of skein

skein (noun)

  1. A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel. A skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread around a fifty-four inch reel.
  2. A web, a weave, a tangle.
  3. The membrane of a fish ovary.
  4. (wagonmaking) A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.
  5. (provincial England) A group of wild fowl, (e.g. geese, goslings) when they are in flight.
  6. A winning streak.

skein (verb)

  1. To wind or weave into a skein.

Definition of skews

skews (noun)

  1. Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
  2. An oblique or sideways movement.
  3. A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
  4. A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
  5. A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.

skews (verb)

  1. To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
  2. To bias or distort in a particular direction.
  3. To hurl or throw.
  4. To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
  5. To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
  6. To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.

skews (noun)

  1. A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.
  2. The coping of a gable.
  3. One of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable.

Definition of skids

skids (noun)

  1. An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car.
  2. A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill; a drag; a skidpan.
  3. (by extension) A hook attached to a chain, used for the same purpose.
  4. A piece of timber or other material used as a support, or to receive pressure.

skids (verb)

  1. To slide in an uncontrolled manner as in a car with the brakes applied too hard.
  2. To protect or support with a skid or skids.
  3. To cause to move on skids.
  4. To check or halt (wagon wheels, etc.) with a skid.

skids (noun)

  1. A stepchild.

Definition of skins

skins (noun)

  1. The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
  2. The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.
  3. The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
  4. A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.
  5. A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program.
  6. An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a character model in a video game.
  7. Rolling paper for cigarettes.
  8. A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people; such divisions are cultural and not related to an individual′s physical skin.
  9. Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.
  10. A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.
  11. That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
  12. The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing.
  13. A drink of whisky served hot.
  14. Person, chap

skins (verb)

  1. To injure the skin of.
  2. To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.
  3. To high five.
  4. To apply a skin to (a computer program).
  5. To use tricks to go past a defender.
  6. To become covered with skin.
  7. To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
  8. To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use cribs, memoranda, etc., which are prohibited.
  9. To strip of money or property; to cheat.

skins (noun)

  1. Someone with a shaved head.
  2. Member of the skinhead subculture arising in late 1960s England or its diaspora, often incorrectly associated with violence and white-supremacist or anti-immigrant principles.