| ski | (noun) narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used in pairs for gliding over snow | - |
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| (verb) move along on skis | - |
| skiagram | (noun) a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays) | Synonyms: radiogram, radiograph, shadowgraph, skiagraph |
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| skiagraph | (noun) a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays) | Synonyms: radiogram, radiograph, shadowgraph, skiagram |
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| skiagraphy | (noun) the process of making a radiograph; producing an image on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light | Synonyms: radiography |
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| skibob | (noun) a vehicle resembling a bicycle but having skis instead of wheels; the rider wears short skis for balancing | - |
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| skid | (noun) an unexpected slide | Synonyms: sideslip, slip |
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| (noun) one of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects | - |
| (noun) a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation | Synonyms: brake shoe, shoe |
| (verb) move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner | Synonyms: slew, slide, slip, slue |
| (verb) apply a brake or skid to | - |
| (verb) elevate onto skids | - |
| (verb) slide without control | - |
| skidder | (noun) a tractor used to haul logs over rough terrain | - |
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| (noun) a worker who uses a skid to move logs | - |
| (noun) a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction | Synonyms: slider, slipper |
| skidpan | (noun) a paved surface on which cars can be made to skid so that drivers can practice controlling them | - |
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| skier | (noun) someone who skis | - |
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| skiff | (noun) any of various small boats propelled by oars or by sails or by a motor | - |
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| skiffle | (noun) a style of popular music in the 1950s; based on American folk music and played on guitars and improvised percussion instruments | - |
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| skiing | (noun) a sport in which participants must travel on skis | - |
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| skilful | (adjective) having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude | Synonyms: adept, expert, good, practiced, proficient, skillful |
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| skilfully | (adverb) with skill | Synonyms: skillfully |
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| skill | (noun) ability to produce solutions in some problem domain | Synonyms: science |
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| (noun) an ability that has been acquired by training | Synonyms: accomplishment, acquirement, acquisition, attainment |
| skilled | (adjective) having or showing or requiring special skill | - |
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| skillessness | (noun) Lack of skill; ineptness. | - |
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| skillet | (noun) a pan used for frying foods | Synonyms: frying pan, frypan |
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| skilletfish | (noun) clingfish with typical skillet shape | Synonyms: Gobiesox strumosus, skillet fish |
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| skillful | (adjective) done with delicacy and skill | Synonyms: nice |
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| (adjective) having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude | Synonyms: adept, expert, good, practiced, proficient, skilful |
| skillfully | (adverb) with skill | Synonyms: skilfully |
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| skillfulness | (noun) the state of being cognitively skillful | - |
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| skilly | (noun) a thin porridge or soup (usually oatmeal and water flavored with meat) | - |
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| skim | (adjective) used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed | Synonyms: skimmed |
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| (noun) reading or glancing through quickly | Synonyms: skimming |
| (noun) a thin layer covering the surface of a liquid | - |
| (verb) read superficially | Synonyms: skim over |
| (verb) move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of | Synonyms: skim over |
| (verb) remove from the surface | Synonyms: cream, cream off, skim off |
| (verb) cause to skip over a surface | Synonyms: skip, skitter |
| (verb) coat (a liquid) with a layer | - |
| (verb) travel on the surface of water | Synonyms: plane |
| (verb) examine hastily | Synonyms: glance over, rake, run down, scan |
| skimcoat | (verb) coat with a mixture of gypsum and spackle | - |
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| skimmed | (adjective) used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed | Synonyms: skim |
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| skimmer | (noun) gull-like seabird that flies along the surface of the water with an elongated lower mandible immersed to skim out food | - |
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| (noun) a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown | Synonyms: boater, leghorn, Panama, Panama hat, sailor, straw hat |
| (noun) a cooking utensil used to skim fat from the surface of liquids | - |
| (noun) a rapid superficial reader | - |
| skimming | (noun) the act of removing floating material from the surface of a liquid | - |
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| (noun) failure to declare income in order to avoid paying taxes on it | - |
| (noun) the act of brushing against while passing | Synonyms: grazing, shaving |
| (noun) reading or glancing through quickly | Synonyms: skim |
| skimp | (verb) subsist on a meager allowance | Synonyms: scrimp, stint |
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| (verb) supply sparingly and with restricted quantities | Synonyms: scant, stint |
| (verb) work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially | Synonyms: scant |
| (verb) limit in quality or quantity | Synonyms: scant |
| skimpily | (adverb) in a skimpy manner | Synonyms: scantily |
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| skimpiness | (noun) Of a garment, the property of being very small, light, or revealing. | Synonyms: scantiness |
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| skimpy | (adjective) containing little excess | Synonyms: lean |
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| (adjective) (of clothing) revealing the body | Synonyms: scanty |
| skin | (noun) body covering of a living animal | Synonyms: hide, pelt |
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| (noun) an outer surface (usually thin) | - |
| (noun) a bag serving as a container for liquids; it is made from the hide of an animal | - |
| (noun) a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch | Synonyms: cutis, tegument |
| (noun) the rind of a fruit or vegetable | Synonyms: peel |
| (noun) a member of any of several British or American groups consisting predominantly of young people who shave their heads; some engage in white supremacist and anti-immigrant activities and this leads to the perception that all skinheads are racist and violent | Synonyms: skinhead |
| (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldhead, baldpate, baldy, skinhead |
| (noun) a person's skin regarded as their life | - |
| (verb) remove the skin from | Synonyms: pare, peel |
| (verb) remove the bark of a tree | Synonyms: bark |
| (verb) bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of | Synonyms: scrape |
| (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, sputter, struggle |
| skincare | (noun) care for the skin | Synonyms: skin care |
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| skinflint | (noun) a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend | Synonyms: churl, niggard, scrooge |
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| skinful | (noun) a quantity of alcoholic drink sufficient to make you drunk | - |
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| skinhead | (noun) a member of any of several British or American groups consisting predominantly of young people who shave their heads; some engage in white supremacist and anti-immigrant activities and this leads to the perception that all skinheads are racist and violent | Synonyms: skin |
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| (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldhead, baldpate, baldy, skin |
| skinheads | (noun) a youth subculture that appeared first in England in the late 1960s as a working-class reaction to the hippies; hair was cropped close to the scalp; wore work-shirts and short jeans (supported by suspenders) and heavy red boots; involved in attacks against Asians and football hooliganism | Synonyms: bootboys |
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| skink | (noun) alert agile lizard with reduced limbs and an elongated body covered with shiny scales; more dependent on moisture than most lizards; found in tropical regions worldwide | Synonyms: scincid, scincid lizard |
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| skinless | (adjective) having no skin | - |
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| skinned | (adjective) having skin of a specified kind | - |
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| skinner | (noun) a person who prepares or deals in animal skins | - |
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| (noun) a worker who drives mules | Synonyms: mule driver, mule skinner, muleteer |
| skinniness | (noun) the bodily property of lacking flesh | Synonyms: scrawniness |
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| skinny | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling skin | - |
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| (adjective) giving or spending with reluctance | Synonyms: cheeseparing, close, near, penny-pinching |
| (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, bony, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, underweight, weedy |
| (adjective) fitting snugly | Synonyms: tight-fitting, tight fitting, tightfitting, tightly fitting |
| (noun) confidential information about a topic or person | - |
| skint | (adjective) lacking funds | Synonyms: broke, bust, stone-broke, stony-broke |
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| skintight | (adjective) so tight as to cling to the skin | Synonyms: skin-tight |
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| skip | (noun) a mistake resulting from neglect | Synonyms: omission |
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| (noun) a gait in which steps and hops alternate | - |
| (verb) bypass | Synonyms: jump, pass over, skip over |
| (verb) cause to skip over a surface | Synonyms: skim, skitter |
| (verb) jump lightly | Synonyms: hop-skip, hop |
| (verb) leave suddenly | Synonyms: decamp, vamoose |
| (verb) bound off one point after another | Synonyms: bound off |
| (verb) intentionally fail to attend | Synonyms: cut |
| skipjack | (noun) oceanic schooling tuna of considerable value in Pacific but less in Atlantic; reaches 75 pounds; very similar to if not the same as oceanic bonito | Synonyms: Euthynnus pelamis, skipjack tuna |
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| (noun) medium-sized tuna-like food fish of warm Atlantic and Pacific waters; less valued than tuna | Synonyms: Atlantic bonito, Sarda sarda |
| (noun) able to right itself when on its back by flipping into the air with a clicking sound | Synonyms: click beetle, snapping beetle |
| skipper | (noun) the naval officer in command of a military ship | Synonyms: captain |
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| (noun) an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship | Synonyms: captain, master, sea captain |
| (noun) a student who fails to attend classes | - |
| (verb) work as the skipper on a vessel | - |
| skirl | (noun) the sound of (the chanter of) a bagpipe | - |
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| (verb) play the bagpipes | - |
| (verb) make a shrill, wailing sound | - |
| skirmish | (noun) a minor short-term fight | Synonyms: brush, clash, encounter |
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| (verb) engage in a skirmish | - |
| skirmisher | (noun) someone who skirmishes (e.g., as a member of a scouting party) | - |
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| skirret | (noun) an Asiatic herb cultivated in Europe for its sweet edible tuberous root | Synonyms: Sium sisarum |
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| skirt | (noun) a garment hanging from the waist; worn mainly by girls and women | - |
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| (noun) cloth covering that forms the part of a garment below the waist | - |
| (noun) informal terms for a (young) woman | Synonyms: bird, chick, dame, doll, wench |
| (noun) (Fungi) a remnant of the partial veil that in mature mushrooms surrounds the stem like a collar | Synonyms: annulus |
| (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep |
| (verb) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle | Synonyms: border, environ, ring, surround |
| (verb) pass around or about; move along the border | - |
| (verb) form the edge of | - |
| skirting | (adjective) being all around the edges; enclosing | Synonyms: encircling |
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| skit | (noun) a short theatrical episode | - |
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| skitter | (verb) twitch the hook of a fishing line through or along the surface of water | - |
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| (verb) cause to skip over a surface | Synonyms: skim, skip |
| (verb) to move about or proceed hurriedly | Synonyms: scamper, scurry, scuttle |
| (verb) glide easily along a surface | - |
| skittish | (adjective) unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) | Synonyms: flighty, nervous, spooky |
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| skittishly | (adverb) in a skittish manner | - |
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| skittishness | (noun) characterized by nervousness and quickness to take fright | Synonyms: restiveness |
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| skittle | (noun) a bowling pin of the type used in playing ninepins or (in England) skittles | Synonyms: ninepin, skittle pin |
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| (verb) play skittles | - |
| skittles | (noun) a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins | Synonyms: ninepins |
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| skive | (verb) remove the surface of | - |
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| skivvies | (noun) (used in the plural) men's underwear consisting of cotton undershirt and underpants | - |
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| skivvy | (noun) a female domestic servant who does all kinds of menial work | Synonyms: slavey |
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