| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| skeletal | adjective | Pertaining to the skeleton. |
| skeleton | noun | The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal., The more or less firm or hardened framework of an invertebrate animal., A very thin or lean person., The framework of anything; the principal parts that support the rest, but without the appendages., The heads and outline of a literary production, especially of a sermon., Consisting of, or resembling, a skeleton; consisting merely of the framework or outlines; having only certain leading features of anything; as, a skeleton sermon; a skeleton crystal. |
| skerries | plural | of Skerry |
| sketched | imp. & past participle | of Sketch |
| sketcher | noun | One who sketches. |
| skewbald | adjective | Marked with spots and patches of white and some color other than black; — usually distinguished from piebald, in which the colors are properly white and black. Said of horses. |
| skewered | imp. & past participle | of Skewer |
| skidding | present participle & vb. noun | of Skid |
| skiffing | present participle & vb. noun | of Skiff |
| skillful | adjective | Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning., Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; — often followed by at, in, or of; as, skillful at the organ; skillful in drawing. |
| skilling | noun | A bay of a barn; also, a slight addition to a cottage., A money od account in Sweden, Norwey, Denmark, and North Germany, and also a coin. It had various values, from three fourths of a cent in Norway to more than two cents in Lubeck. |
| skimming | present participle & vb. noun | of Skim, The act of one who skims., That which is skimmed from the surface of a liquid; — chiefly used in the plural; as, the skimmings of broth. |
| skimback | noun | The quillback. |
| skimitry | noun | See Skimmington. |
| skimping | present participle & vb. noun | of Skimp |
| skinning | present participle & vb. noun | of Skin |
| skinched | imp. & past participle | of Skinch |
| skinfuls | plural | of Skinful |
| skinking | present participle & vb. noun | of Skink |
| skinless | adjective | Having no skin, or a very thin skin; as, skinless fruit. |
| skipping | present participle & vb. noun | of Skip |
| skipjack | noun | An upstart., An elater; a snap bug, or snapping beetle., A name given to several kinds of a fish, as the common bluefish, the alewife, the bonito, the butterfish, the cutlass fish, the jurel, the leather jacket, the runner, the saurel, the saury, the threadfish, etc., A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section. |
| skirling | noun | A shrill cry or sound; a crying shrilly; a skirl., A small trout or salmon; — a name used loosely. |
| skirmish | verb i. | To fight slightly or in small parties; to engage in a skirmish or skirmishes; to act as skirmishers., A slight fight in war; a light or desultory combat between detachments from armies, or between detached and small bodies of troops., A slight contest. |
| skirrhus | noun | See Scirrhus. |
| skirting | present participle & vb. noun | of Skirt, A skirting board., Skirts, taken collectivelly; material for skirts. |
| skittish | verb t. | Easily frightened; timorous; shy; untrustworthy; as, a skittish colt., Wanton; restive; freakish; volatile; changeable; fickle. |
| skittles | verb t. | An English game resembling ninepins, but played by throwing wooden disks, instead of rolling balls, at the pins. |
| skulking | present participle & vb. noun | of Skulk |
| skullcap | noun | A cap which fits the head closely; also, formerly, a headpiece of iron sewed inside of a cap for protection., Any plant of the labiate genus Scutellaria, the calyx of whose flower appears, when inverted, like a helmet with the visor raised., The Lophiomys. |
| skunkish | adjective | Like the skunk, especially in odor. |
| skunktop | noun | The surf duck. |
| sky-blue | adjective | Having the blue color of the sky; azure; as, a sky-blue stone. |
| sky-high | adverb & adjective | Very high. |
| skylight | noun | A window placed in the roof of a building, in the ceiling of a room, or in the deck of a ship, for the admission of light from above. |