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10-letter words containing a, i, k, e

  • paperknife — a small, often decorative, knifelike instrument with a blade of metal, ivory, wood, or the like, for slitting open envelopes, the leaves of books, folded papers, etc.
  • parentlike — a father or a mother.
  • park ridge — a city in NE Illinois.
  • parrotlike — any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets.
  • pawnticket — a ticket or receipt for a pawned item
  • peacocking — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
  • peacockish — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
  • peking man — the skeletal remains of Homo erectus, formerly classified as Sinanthropus pekinensis, found at Zhoukoudian, near Peking, China, in the late 1930s and early 1940s and subsequently lost during World War II.
  • perikaryal — of or pertaining to the perikaryon of a nerve; involving or occurring within a perikaryon
  • perikaryon — cell body.
  • phokomelia — a usually congenital deformity of the extremities in which the limbs are abnormally short.
  • picketboat — a boat which keeps guard
  • pikes peak — a mountain in central Colorado: a peak of the Rocky Mountains. 14,108 feet (4300 meters).
  • pine snake — any of several subspecies of bullsnake of the eastern and southeastern U.S., chiefly in pine woods: now threatened.
  • pipe snake — any of several nonvenomous, burrowing snakes of the genus Cylindrophis, of southeastern Asia and the Malay Archipelago, having an evenly cylindrical body.
  • pitch lake — a deposit of natural asphalt in SW Trinidad, West Indies. 114 acres (47 hectares).
  • pizza-like — similar to or resembling pizza
  • place kick — a kick in which the ball is placed in position before it is kicked
  • place-kick — to make (a field goal or point after touchdown) by a place kick.
  • planetlike — resembling a planet or planets
  • prepacking — a package assembled by a manufacturer, distributor, or retailer and containing a specific number of items or a specific assortment of sizes, colors, flavors, etc., of a product.
  • printmaker — a person who makes prints, especially an artist working in one of the graphic mediums.
  • quickwater — the part of a river or other stream having a strong current.
  • rabbitlike — Similar to a rabbit.
  • rain check — a ticket for future use given to spectators at an outdoor event, as a baseball game or concert, that has been postponed or interrupted by rain.
  • ratemaking — the process or practice of establishing rates of payment, especially for public transportation or utilities.
  • red kowhai — parrot's-bill.
  • reichsbank — the former German national bank.
  • reichsmark — the monetary unit of Germany from November, 1924, until 1948. Compare Deutsche mark, mark2 (def 1), ostmark.
  • repair kit — a set of items, instructions, etc designed to assist with the repair of a specific thing
  • retracking — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
  • rickettsia — any member of the genus Rickettsia, comprising rod-shaped to coccoid microorganisms that resemble bacteria but can be as small as a large virus and reproduce only inside a living cell, parasitic in fleas, ticks, lice, and mites and transmitted by bite to vertebrate hosts, including humans, causing such severe diseases as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
  • ring snake — grass snake (def 1).
  • river bank — land at edge of a river
  • ropemaking — the act, skill, or process of fabricating rope.
  • sail maker — someone whose occupation is to make and repair sails for boats
  • sailorlike — resembling a sailor
  • saint luke — a fellow worker of Paul and a physician (Colossians 4:14). Feast day: Oct 18
  • samarskite — a velvet-black mineral, a complex columbate-tantalate of uranium, cerium, etc., occurring in masses: a minor source of uranium, thorium, and rare-earth oxides.
  • saucerlike — resembling a saucer
  • seakeeping — the ability of a vessel to endure rough conditions at sea and navigate safely during long storms.
  • seamanlike — like or befitting a seaman; showing good seamanship.
  • semi-naked — being without clothing or covering; nude: naked children swimming in the lake.
  • shadowlike — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
  • shankpiece — a piece of metal or fiber for giving form to the shank of a shoe.
  • shirtmaker — a person who makes shirts.
  • sick leave — leave from duty, work, or the like, granted because of illness.
  • sickle bar — cutter bar (def 1).
  • sicklemias — the usually asymptomatic hereditary condition that occurs when a person inherits from only one parent the abnormal hemoglobin gene characteristic of sickle cell anemia.
  • silk paper — paper that contains silk fibers and is sometimes used for printing postage stamps and revenue stamps.
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