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

  • check rail — (in a window sash) a meeting rail, especially one closing against the corresponding rail with a diagonal or rabbeted overlap.
  • checkmated — (chess) Having a king in check with no possible move to escape check, thus losing the game.
  • checkmates — Plural form of checkmate.
  • cheesecake — Cheesecake is a dessert that consists of a base made from broken biscuits covered with a soft sweet mixture containing cream cheese.
  • chekhovian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Anton Chekhov or his writings, especially as they are evocative of a mood of introspection and frustration.
  • chesapeake — city in SE Va., at the base of Chesapeake Bay: pop. 199,000
  • chickadees — Plural form of chickadee.
  • chickarees — Plural form of chickaree.
  • choke back — If you choke back tears or a strong emotion, you force yourself not to show your emotion.
  • chroma key — an electronic special-effects system for combining a desired background with live foreground action.
  • coachmaker — A coachbuilder.
  • coat check — The coat check at a public building such as a theater or club is the place where customers can leave their coats, usually for a small fee.
  • cockchafer — any of various Old World scarabaeid beetles, esp Melolontha melolontha of Europe, whose larvae feed on crops and grasses
  • cocked hat — A cocked hat is a hat with three corners that used to be worn with some uniforms.
  • crackheads — Plural form of crackhead.
  • crackhouse — a place where cocaine in the form of crack is bought, sold, and smoked.
  • 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.
  • 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 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 watch — (on a ship) a precision watch used on deck for navigational purposes to avoid disturbing the chronometer.
  • deckchairs — Plural form of deckchair.
  • dick-heads — dick (def 3).
  • eagle-hawk — a large aggressive Australian eagle, Aquila audax
  • earthquake — something that is severely disruptive; upheaval.
  • earthworks — Plural form of earthwork.
  • ekphrastic — Pertaining to ekphrasis; clear, lucid.
  • enkephalin — Either of two compounds that occur naturally in the brain. They are peptides related to the endorphins, with similar physiological effects.
  • fact-check — to confirm the truth of (an assertion made in speech or writing), often as part of the research or editorial process.
  • fair shake — an equitable opportunity or treatment: The judges promised that every entrant in the contest would get a fair shake.
  • falkenhayn — Erich von [ey-rikh fuh n] /ˈeɪ rɪx fən/ (Show IPA), 1861–1922, German general of World War I.
  • fatherlike — Having the qualities of a father.
  • fish flake — a platform for drying fish.
  • foreshanks — Plural form of foreshank.
  • freak show — a display of people or animals with unusual or grotesque physical features, as at a circus or carnival sideshow.
  • freakishly — queer; odd; unusual; grotesque: a freakish appearance.
  • greenshank — an Old World shore bird, Tringa nebularia, having green legs.
  • hack house — Falconry. a shed where young hawks are kept and fed while at hack.
  • hack value — Often adduced as the reason or motivation for expending effort toward a seemingly useless goal, the point being that the accomplished goal is a hack. For example, MacLISP had features for reading and printing Roman numerals, which were installed purely for hack value. See display hack for one method of computing hack value, but this cannot really be explained, only experienced. As Louis Armstrong once said when asked to explain jazz: "Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know." (Feminists please note Fats Waller's explanation of rhythm: "Lady, if you got to ask you ain't got it.")
  • hackamores — Plural form of hackamore.
  • 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.
  • hackensack — a city in NE New Jersey, near New York City.
  • hackerazzo — a person who hacks into the computer or phone of a celebrity in order to gain information about him or her
  • hackeysack — A non-competition sport in which a small sack, or
  • hackle fly — an artificial fly made with hackles, usually without wings.
  • hackleback — shovelnose sturgeon.
  • hackneying — Present participle of hackney.
  • hackneyman — a man who rents out carriages and horses
  • hairstreak — any small, dark butterfly of the family Lycaenidae, having hairlike tails on the hind wings.
  • hakenkreuz — a swastika, especially that used as the emblem of the Nazi party and the Third Reich.
  • half-awake — waking; not sleeping.
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