10-letter words containing a, l, k
- deck plate — a purlin plate at the edge of a deck.
- diplospeak — the polite and placatory language usually associated with diplomats
- dislikable — Not capable or worthy of being liked; not liked; regarded with displeasure or aversion.
- dog-walker — a person who walks other people's dogs, especially for a fee.
- doodlesack — bagpipe (def 1).
- dragonlike — a mythical monster generally represented as a huge, winged reptile with crested head and enormous claws and teeth, and often spouting fire.
- dreadlocks — a hair style, especially among Rastafarians, in which the hair is worn in long, ropelike locks.
- drop black — carbon, as animal black or lampblack, formed into pellets by mixing with water or glue: used as a black pigment.
- drunk dial — a phone call made by someone who is intoxicated.
- dual-stack — (networking) A term used to describe a network node running both IPv4 and IPv6 protocol stacks (or possibly others) at the same time. Such a machine can act as a protocol converter between the two networks. A node without dual-stack support can relay traffic in a protocol it does not support natively by use of tunnelling.
- duckwalked — Simple past tense and past participle of duckwalk.
- eagle-hawk — a large aggressive Australian eagle, Aquila audax
- enkephalin — Either of two compounds that occur naturally in the brain. They are peptides related to the endorphins, with similar physiological effects.
- eskilstuna — an industrial city in SE Sweden. Pop: 91 137 (2004 est)
- falkenhayn — Erich von [ey-rikh fuh n] /ˈeɪ rɪx fən/ (Show IPA), 1861–1922, German general of World War I.
- false keel — an extension to the keel of a vessel either for protecting the keel from damage or for reducing leeway
- falseworks — Plural form of falsework.
- familylike — Resembling a family.
- fatherlike — Having the qualities of a father.
- fellwalker — a person who hikes over fells
- femalelike — Resembling or characteristic of a female.
- fiddleback — something shaped like a fiddle.
- field lark — meadowlark.
- field rank — the rank of major, lieutenant colonel, or colonel
- film-maker — Also called moviemaker. a producer or director of motion pictures, especially one working in all phases of production: the leading young filmmakers of France.
- filmmakers — Plural form of filmmaker.
- filmmaking — Also called moviemaker. a producer or director of motion pictures, especially one working in all phases of production: the leading young filmmakers of France.
- fish flake — a platform for drying fish.
- flagsticks — Plural form of flagstick.
- flake tool — a Paleolithic or later stone tool made from a flake struck from a larger core.
- flakeboard — a form of particle board.
- flankering — Present participle of flanker.
- flare-back — a blast of flame that sometimes issues from the breech of a large gun or cannon when it is opened after firing.
- flarebacks — Plural form of flareback.
- flash back — If your mind flashes back to something in the past, you remember it or think of it briefly or suddenly.
- flash-lock — stanch1 (def 5).
- flashbacks — Plural form of flashback.
- flat broke — having no money
- flat thunk — (programming) A software mechanism that allows a Win32 application to load and call a 16-bit DLL, or a 16-bit application to load and call a Win32 DLL. See also generic thunk, universal thunk.
- flick-pass — a movement in which the ball is passed quickly to another player by flicking it out of the hand; often performed with only one hand
- floodmarks — Plural form of floodmark.
- fly a kite — If you say that someone is flying a kite, you are critical of them for putting forward new ideas just to see how people react, rather than with the intention of putting those ideas into practice.
- folk dance — a dance that originated among, and has been transmitted through, the common people. Compare court dance.
- folk magic — any attempt to practice charms, spells, etc., to control events or people.
- folk weave — a type of fabric with a loose weave
- franklinia — a shrub or small tree, Franklinia alatamaha, of the tea family, originally native to the SE U.S. and now found only in cultivation, having glossy leaves and large, solitary white flowers.
- frantickly — Obsolete form of franticly.
- freakishly — queer; odd; unusual; grotesque: a freakish appearance.
- full marks — If you get full marks in a test or exam, you get everything right and gain the maximum number of marks.
- funkadelia — A psychedelic musical genre, with funk roots.