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10-letter words containing a, k, d

  • cake stand — a plate on a pedestal used for displaying cakes in a shop or café, or for special cakes such as wedding cakes
  • candlewick — unbleached cotton or muslin into which loops of yarn are hooked and then cut to give a tufted pattern. It is used for bedspreads, dressing gowns, etc
  • cankeredly — spitefully or crabbedly
  • card shark — an expert card player
  • card trick — an illusory feat performed with playing cards
  • casevacked — Simple past tense and past participle of casevac.
  • chalkboard — A chalkboard is a dark-coloured board that you can write on with chalk. Chalkboards are often used by teachers in the classroom.
  • check card — debit card.
  • checkmated — (chess) Having a king in check with no possible move to escape check, thus losing the game.
  • chickadees — Plural form of chickadee.
  • chowkidars — Plural form of chowkidar.
  • clarksdale — a city in NW Mississippi.
  • clock card — a card used by employees to register their time of arrival at, and time of departure from, their workplace
  • cloud peak — a mountain in N central Wyoming: highest peak in the Bighorn Mountains. 13,175 feet (4018 meters).
  • cloud rack — a group of moving clouds
  • cocked hat — A cocked hat is a hat with three corners that used to be worn with some uniforms.
  • codetalker — A military communications specialist using codes based on an obscure language.
  • codewalker — (programming, tool)   A program component that analyses other programs. Compilers have codewalkers in their front ends; so do cross-reference generators and some database front ends. Other utility programs that try to do too much with source code may turn into codewalkers. As in "This new 'vgrind' feature would require a codewalker to implement."
  • corkboards — Plural form of corkboard.
  • crack down — If people in authority crack down on a group of people, they become stricter in making the group obey rules or laws.
  • crackdowns — Plural form of crackdown.
  • cracked up — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
  • crackheads — Plural form of crackhead.
  • cradlewalk — a garden walkway covered by arched trees
  • cranked up — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
  • crude tank — A crude tank is a large vessel for crude oil.
  • daggerlike — resembling a dagger in shape or form
  • damnyankee — (in the southern U.S.) a person native to the northern states of the U.S., especially one who is disliked or regarded with suspicion.
  • dark cloud — grey clouds threatening rain
  • dark horse — If you describe someone as a dark horse, you mean that people know very little about them, although they may have recently had success or may be about to have success.
  • dark money — money donated to politically active nonprofit organizations or anonymous corporate entities, which spend this money to influence political campaigns or other special interests but are not required to reveal their donors.
  • dark slide — Also called draw slide. a black plastic, metal, or fabric sheet that is inserted into a film holder to protect the film from light.
  • dark-field — of or relating to the illumination of an object by which it is seen, through a microscope, as bright against a dark background.
  • darknesses — Plural form of darknesse.
  • day ticket — a ticket that is valid for one day
  • dead stock — farm equipment
  • dead-stick — designating a landing made by an aircraft or spacecraft without using power
  • deadlocked — If a dispute or series of negotiations is deadlocked, no agreement can be reached because neither side will give in at all. You can also say that the people involved are deadlocked.
  • deal-maker — A deal-maker is someone in business or politics who makes deals.
  • dealmakers — Plural form of dealmaker.
  • dealmaking — The making of commercial, financial or political deals.
  • death mask — A death mask is a model of someone's face, which is made from a mould that was taken of their face soon after they died.
  • deck cabin — a cabin on the deck of a boat from which the vessel is steered
  • deck cargo — cargo that is carried on the deck of a ship
  • deck chair — A deck chair is a simple chair with a folding frame, and a piece of canvas as the seat and back. Deck chairs are usually used on the beach, on a ship, or in the yard.
  • deck crane — a deck-mounted crane used for loading and unloading cargo
  • deck plate — a purlin plate at the edge of a deck.
  • deck watch — (on a ship) a precision watch used on deck for navigational purposes to avoid disturbing the chronometer.
  • deckchairs — Plural form of deckchair.
  • dekametric — (of a radio wave) having a wavelength between 10 and 100 meters: decametric wave.
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