skein 
(skān)
(skān)n.
1.
a. A length of thread or yarn wound in a loose long coil.
b. Something suggesting the coil of a skein; a complex tangle: a twisted skein of lies.
2. A flock of geese or similar birds in flight.
[Middle English skeine, from Old French escaigne.]
- Africanized honeybee
- African lily
- African mahogany
- African oil palm
- African sleeping sickness
- African swine fever
- African trypanosome
- African trypanosomiasis
- African violet
- African wild dog
- Afrikaans
- put across
- put all eggs in one basket
- put all one's eggs in one basket
- putamen
- put an a a stop to
- put an a halt stop to
- put an end/a halt/a stop to
- put an end a stop to
- put an end halt stop to
- put aside
- putative
- putatively
- put away
- put by