9-Letter Words Containing: O,S,K,E,D

• the domain ruled by a sheik

• The desk in a newspaper office where copyreading takes place.

• The staff responsible for editing copy.

• intended to test a new system under operating conditions and to familiarize the operators with the system

• initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state

• a very thorough search of a person or a place

• extortion of money (as by blackmail)

• Any structure at the head or diversion point of a waterway. It is smaller than a barrage and is used to divert water from a river into a canal or from a large canal into a smaller canal.

• the stationary support in a machine or power tool that supports and drives a revolving part (as a chuck or the spindle on a lathe)

• dull or routine preliminary work preparing for an undertaking

• the raw material that is required for some industrial process