8-Letter Words Containing: M,I,R,K,S,_

• An indentation in the snow made by a fallen skier.

• a minor short-term fight

• engage in a skirmish

• the commercially bred hairless white caterpillar of the domestic silkworm moth which spins a cocoon that can be processed to yield silk fiber; the principal source of commercial silk

• larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon

• an area in southwestern Asia whose sovereignty is disputed between Pakistan and India

• a room to which a sick person is confined

• An outcrop of hard rock, often in the form of a cliff at the edge of a plateau, that forms the margin of a gravel deposit

• a rapid superficial reader

• a cooking utensil used to skim fat from the surface of liquids

• a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown

• gull-like seabird that flies along the surface of the water with an elongated lower mandible immersed to skim out food