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10-letter words containing a, g, k

  • goalkicker — a person who makes a goal kick
  • goatsucker — nightjar (def 2).
  • gobsmacked — utterly astounded; astonished.
  • gonkulator — /gon'kyoo-lay-tr/ (From "Hogan's Heroes", the TV series) A pretentious piece of equipment that actually serves no useful purpose. Usually used to describe one's least favourite piece of computer hardware. See gonk.
  • gottschalk — Louis Moreau [maw-roh,, moh-] /mɔˈroʊ,, moʊ-/ (Show IPA), 1829–69, U.S. pianist and composer.
  • grade book — a book in which a student's grades are recorded
  • grand duke — the sovereign of a territory called a grand duchy, ranking next below a king.
  • grand turk — an island in the Turks and Caicos Islands of the West Indies. 7 miles (11 km) long.
  • grass pink — a pink, Dianthus plumarius, of Europe and Asia, having fragrant, fringed pink, purplish, or white flowers.
  • grass sack — South Midland U.S. a gunnysack.
  • grasswrack — any of several perennial submerged marine plants of the genus Zostera; eelgrass
  • gray skate — a skate, Raja batis, of coastal seas off Great Britain.
  • grays peak — a mountain in N central Colorado; highest point in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. 14,270 feet (4352 meters).
  • great neck — a town on NW Long Island, in SE New York.
  • great sark — the larger northern section of the island of Sark in the Channel Islands, connected to Little Sark by a narrow isthmus
  • great skua — Also called bonxie. any of several large brown gull-like predatory birds of the genus Catharacta, related to jaegers, especially C. skua (great skua) of colder waters of both northern and southern seas.
  • great week — Holy Week.
  • greenbacks — Plural form of greenback.
  • greenshank — an Old World shore bird, Tringa nebularia, having green legs.
  • greenspeak — the jargon used by those who campaign for the conservation of the world's natural resources and the improvement of the environment
  • grey skate — a species of skate, Dipturus batis
  • grillsteak — a flat fried cake of minced beef or lamb that is usually grilled from frozen
  • grimalkins — Plural form of grimalkin.
  • grubstaked — Simple past tense and past participle of grubstake.
  • grubstaker — provisions, gear, etc., furnished to a prospector on condition of participating in the profits of any discoveries.
  • grubstakes — Plural form of grubstake.
  • gulbenkian — Calouste Sarkis (kæˈluːst ˈsɑːkɪz). 1869–1955, British industrialist, born in Turkey. He endowed the international Gulbenkian Foundation for the advancement of the arts, science, and education
  • gun tackle — a tackle composed of a fall rove through two single blocks and secured to one of them so as to secure a mechanical advantage of two or three, neglecting friction, depending on the arrangement.
  • gunnysacks — Plural form of gunnysack.
  • guru nanak — ("Guru") 1469–1539, Indian religious leader: founder of Sikhism.
  • hackneying — Present participle of hackney.
  • hearkening — Literary. to give heed or attention to what is said; listen.
  • hektograph — to copy with the hectograph.
  • highjacker — a person who hijacks.
  • hijackings — Plural form of hijacking.
  • hog-backed — cambered, as the ridge of a roof, a hill, etc.
  • homemaking — the establishment or management of a home; duties of a homemaker.
  • hopsacking — bagging made chiefly of hemp and jute.
  • imagemaker — a person, as a publicist, who specializes in creating images for companies, political candidates, etc.
  • inbreaking — The act of breaking in; incursion; invasion; inroad.
  • jaywalking — to cross a street at a place other than a regular crossing or in a heedless manner, as diagonally or against a traffic light.
  • jogjakarta — a city in central Java, in S Indonesia.
  • kabaragoya — The water monitor, Varanus salvator, a large lizard of Southeast Asia.
  • kalaburagi — a city in Karnataka state, in S central India.
  • kalgoorlie — a city in SW Australia: chief center of gold-mining industry in Australia.
  • kans grass — kans.
  • kapfenberg — an industrial town in E Austria, in Styria. Pop: 22 234 (2001)
  • karaya gum — the dried exudate of an Asian tree, Sterculia urens, used for finishing textiles and as a thickening agent in cosmetics and foodstuffs.
  • karyograms — Plural form of karyogram.
  • karyologic — of or relating to karyology
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