10-letter words containing a, l, k, y
- layer cake — a cake made in layers, with a cream, jelly, or other filling between them.
- leaky heap — memory leak
- leukopathy — (pathology) depigmentation of the skin.
- likability — readily or easily liked; pleasing: a likable young man.
- like crazy — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
- lokayatika — a member of the Lokayata school.
- lukewarmly — In a lukewarm manner, tepidly, without extremeness.
- lyre snake — any of several mildly venomous colubrid snakes of the genus Trimorphodon, inhabiting rocky areas from the southwestern U.S. to Central America, having fangs in the rear of the upper jaw and a lyre-shaped marking on the head.
- malinovsky — Rodion Yakovlevich [ruh-dyi-awn yah-kuh-vlyi-vyich] /rə dyɪˈɔn ˈyɑ kə vlyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1898–1967, Russian army officer: minister of defense of the U.S.S.R. 1957–67.
- marketably — readily salable.
- martyrlike — Resembling or characteristic of a martyr.
- milk gravy — a gravy or sauce made from cooking fat, milk, flour, and seasonings.
- mistakably — In a mistakable manner.
- mistakenly — wrongly conceived, held, or done: a mistaken antagonism.
- mollymawks — Plural form of mollymawk.
- naked lady — amaryllis (def 2).
- naked-lady — any of several bulbous plants of the genus Hippeastrum, especially H. puniceum, which has large red or pink flowers and is popular as a houseplant. Compare amaryllis family.
- perikaryal — of or pertaining to the perikaryon of a nerve; involving or occurring within a perikaryon
- play hooky — play truant, be absent from school
- playbroker — play agent.
- playmaking — the initiating of offensive plays in sports
- prankingly — showily, in an ostentatious or pranking manner
- prankishly — in a prankish manner, mischievously
- quackishly — In a quackish manner.
- quick clay — a water-saturated clay that changes rapidly to a fluid state when jarred or crushed, as by an earthquake or pile driver
- remarkably — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
- rockabilly — a style of popular music combining the features of rock-'n'-roll and hillbilly music.
- royal duke — a duke who is also a royal prince, being a member of the royal family
- shylockian — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
- skylarking — a brown-speckled European lark, Alauda arvensis, famed for its melodious song.
- snake lily — a Californian plant, Dichelostemma volubile, of the amaryllis family, having a twining stem and an umbel of rose-red or pink flowers.
- sneakingly — acting in a furtive or underhand way.
- sneakishly — in a stealthy or underhanded manner
- spankingly — in a spanking manner
- sparkishly — in a sparkish manner
- sparks fly — If sparks fly between people, they discuss something in an excited or angry way.
- speakingly — in an eloquent manner
- stalk-eyed — having the eyes located on pedicels, as some crustaceans and dipterans.
- talk dirty — use lewd sexual language
- thankfully — feeling or expressing gratitude; appreciative.
- tracklayer — section hand.
- unladylike — like a lady.
- unshakenly — in an unshaken manner
- willywacks — willowwacks.
- woollyback — a person who lives in a region near, but not in, Liverpool
- yankeeland — Chiefly Southern U.S. the northern states of the U.S.
- yellowback — (formerly) an inexpensive, often lurid, novel bound in yellow cloth or paper.
- yellowcake — a processed oxide of uranium, U 3 O 8 , extracted and concentrated from uranium ore: used as the raw material for commercial nuclear materials, especially fuel elements in nuclear reactors.
- yolk stalk — a tubular connection between the yolk sac and the embryonic gut in the developing embryo.