| skulk | (verb) move furtively | - |
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| (verb) avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill | Synonyms: malinger |
| (verb) lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner | Synonyms: lurk |
| skulker | (noun) someone waiting in concealment | Synonyms: lurcher, lurker |
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| (noun) someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity | Synonyms: malingerer, shammer |
| skulking | (noun) evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated | Synonyms: malingering |
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| skull | (noun) the bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates | - |
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| skullcap | (noun) rounded brimless cap fitting the crown of the head | - |
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| (noun) the dome of the skull | Synonyms: calvaria |
| (noun) a herbaceous plant of the genus Scutellaria which has a calyx that, when inverted, resembles a helmet with its visor raised | Synonyms: helmetflower |
| skullduggery | (noun) verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way | Synonyms: hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, slickness, trickery |
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| skunk | (noun) American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae | Synonyms: polecat, wood pussy |
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| (noun) street names for marijuana | Synonyms: dope, gage, grass, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, pot, sens, sess, smoke, weed |
| (noun) a defeat in a game where one side fails to score | Synonyms: shutout |
| (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot |
| (verb) defeat by a lurch | Synonyms: lurch |
| skunkbush | (noun) deciduous shrub of California with unpleasantly scented usually trifoliate leaves and edible fruit | Synonyms: Rhus trilobata, squaw-bush, squawbush |
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| skunkweed | (noun) tall herb of the Rocky Mountains having sticky leaves and an offensive smell | Synonyms: Polemonium viscosum, skunk-weed |
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| sky | (noun) the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth | - |
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| (verb) throw or toss with a light motion | Synonyms: flip, pitch, toss |
| skybox | (noun) an elevated box for viewing events at a sports stadium | - |
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| skycap | (noun) a porter who helps passengers with their baggage at an airport | - |
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| skydive | (verb) jump from an airplane and perform various maneuvers before opening one's parachute | Synonyms: sky dive |
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| skydiver | (noun) a person who jumps from a plane and performs various gymnastic maneuvers before pulling the parachute cord | - |
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| skydiving | (noun) performing acrobatics in free fall before pulling the ripcord of a parachute | - |
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| skyhook | (noun) a hook that is imagined to be suspended from the sky | - |
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| (noun) helicopter carrying a reel of steel cable that can be used to lift and transport heavy objects | - |
| skyjack | (verb) subject an aircraft to air piracy | - |
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| skylark | (noun) brown-speckled European lark noted for singing while hovering at a great height | Synonyms: Alauda arvensis |
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| (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, sport |
| skylight | (noun) a window in a roof to admit daylight | Synonyms: fanlight |
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| skyline | (noun) the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet | Synonyms: apparent horizon, horizon, sensible horizon, visible horizon |
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| (noun) the outline of objects seen against the sky | - |
| skype | (verb) to communicate using Skype or similar web conference software | - |
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| skyrocket | (noun) sends a firework display high into the sky | Synonyms: rocket |
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| (noun) propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon | Synonyms: rocket |
| (verb) shoot up abruptly, like a rocket | Synonyms: rocket |
| skysail | (noun) the sail above the royal on a square-rigger | - |
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| skyscraper | (noun) a very tall building with many stories | - |
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| skywalk | (noun) an elevated walkway between buildings (usually enclosed) | - |
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| skyward | (adjective) directed toward heaven or the sky | Synonyms: heavenward |
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| (adverb) toward the sky | Synonyms: skywards |
| skywards | (adverb) toward the sky | Synonyms: skyward |
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| skyway | (noun) a designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another | Synonyms: air lane, airway, flight path |
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| skywriting | (noun) writing formed in the sky by smoke released from an airplane | - |
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