10-letter words containing a, k, d
- duckwalked — Simple past tense and past participle of duckwalk.
- dustjacket — Alternative form of dust jacket.
- dyskinesia — difficulty or abnormality in performing voluntary muscular movements.
- feedbacker — One who provides feedback.
- fiddleback — something shaped like a fiddle.
- field lark — meadowlark.
- field rank — the rank of major, lieutenant colonel, or colonel
- firedrakes — Plural form of firedrake.
- first dark — twilight.
- flakeboard — a form of particle board.
- floodmarks — Plural form of floodmark.
- folk dance — a dance that originated among, and has been transmitted through, the common people. Compare court dance.
- funkadelia — A psychedelic musical genre, with funk roots.
- funkadelic — (music) Of, or relating to, funkadelia.
- gadzookery — the use or overuse of period-specific or archaic expressions, as in a historical novel: Without any gadzookery and its excessive use of “forsooth,” “prithee,” etc., her first historical novel conveys a superb sense of the period.
- gobsmacked — utterly astounded; astonished.
- 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.
- grubstaked — Simple past tense and past participle of grubstake.
- hack board — Falconry. a board or platform at which hawks being flown at hack are fed.
- hacked off — (jargon) (Analogous to "pissed off") Said of system administrators who have become annoyed, upset, or touchy owing to suspicions that their sites have been or are going to be victimised by crackers, or used for inappropriate, technically illegal, or even overtly criminal activities. For example, having unreadable files in your home directory called "worm", "lockpick", or "goroot" would probably be an effective (as well as impressively obvious and stupid) way to get your sysadmin hacked off at you.
- half-baked — insufficiently cooked.
- half-drunk — being in a temporary state in which one's physical and mental faculties are impaired by an excess of alcoholic drink; intoxicated: The wine made him drunk.
- half-naked — being without clothing or covering; nude: naked children swimming in the lake.
- halfcocked — Simple past tense and past participle of halfcock.
- hallmarked — Simple past tense and past participle of hallmark.
- hand brake — a brake operated by a hand lever. Compare caliper (def 6).
- hand truck — truck1 (def 3).
- hand-spike — a bar used as a lever.
- handbasket — a small basket with a handle for carrying by hand.
- handbrakes — Plural form of handbrake.
- handpicked — Picked by hand; picked or selected with care.
- handshaker — a person who is or is required to be overtly or ostentatiously friendly: Politicians are often incurable handshakers.
- handshakes — Plural form of handshake.
- handspikes — Plural form of handspike.
- handstroke — the downward movement of the bell rope as the bell swings around allowing the ringer to grasp and pull it
- handy-pack — a pack of a product that is useful or convenient in some way, because, for example, it is easy to transport, or because it contains a variety of flavours, colours, etc
- hard-knock — beset with hardship.
- hardbacked — (of a book) Having a solid binding; hardback.
- head clerk — a supervisor; manager
- headstocks — Plural form of headstock.
- hind shank — Anatomy. the part of the lower limb in humans between the knee and the ankle; leg.
- hog-backed — cambered, as the ridge of a roof, a hill, etc.
- home-baked — baked at home; home-made
- humpbacked — having a hump on the back.
- hydrocrack — to crack (petroleum or the like) in the presence of hydrogen.
- india silk — a soft, lightweight fabric constructed in plain weave, woven chiefly in India.
- indian ink — (sometimes lowercase) British. India ink.
- jackbooted — wearing jackboots.