10-letter words containing a, s, h, k
- chickarees — Plural form of chickaree.
- chikamatsu — Monzaemon [mawn-zah-e-mawn] /ˈmɔn zɑ ɛˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), 1653–1724, Japanese playwright.
- china silk — a lightweight silk fabric constructed in plain weave, often used for linings, blouses, slips, etc.
- chowkidars — Plural form of chowkidar.
- crackheads — Plural form of crackhead.
- crackhouse — a place where cocaine in the form of crack is bought, sold, and smoked.
- crankshaft — A crankshaft is the main shaft of an internal combustion engine.
- cruikshank — George. 1792–1878, English illustrator and caricaturist
- 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.
- deckchairs — Plural form of deckchair.
- dick-heads — dick (def 3).
- disk crash — the failure of a disk storage system, usually resulting from the read-write head touching the moving disk surface and causing mechanical damage
- dobzhansky — Theodosius (Grigorievich) [gri-gawr-ee-uh-vich,, -gohr-] /grɪˈgɔr i ə vɪtʃ,, -ˈgoʊr-/ (Show IPA), 1900–75, U.S. geneticist, born in Russia.
- earthworks — Plural form of earthwork.
- ekphrastic — Pertaining to ekphrasis; clear, lucid.
- fair shake — an equitable opportunity or treatment: The judges promised that every entrant in the contest would get a fair shake.
- fish flake — a platform for drying fish.
- 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.
- 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.
- gottschalk — Louis Moreau [maw-roh,, moh-] /mɔˈroʊ,, moʊ-/ (Show IPA), 1829–69, U.S. pianist and composer.
- 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.
- hackamores — Plural form of hackamore.
- hackensack — a city in NE New Jersey, near New York City.
- hackeysack — A non-competition sport in which a small sack, or
- hackintosh — 1. (jargon, computer) An Apple Lisa that has been hacked into emulating a Macintosh (also called a "Mac XL"). 2. (jargon, computer) A Macintosh assembled from parts theoretically belonging to different models in the line.
- hacktivism — the practice of gaining unauthorized access to a computer system and carrying out various disruptive actions as a means of achieving political or social goals: In this form of hacktivism, the hacker tries to alter or deface a government website.
- hacktivist — the practice of gaining unauthorized access to a computer system and carrying out various disruptive actions as a means of achieving political or social goals: In this form of hacktivism, the hacker tries to alter or deface a government website.
- hacky sack — (lowercase) a game in which a footbag is juggled with the feet.
- hairstreak — any small, dark butterfly of the family Lycaenidae, having hairlike tails on the hind wings.
- hamesucken — the offence of attacking a person in his or her own dwelling
- hammerkops — Plural form of hammerkop.
- hamshackle — to hobble (a cow, horse, etc) by tying a rope around the head and one of the legs
- hand-spike — a bar used as a lever.
- handbasket — a small basket with a handle for carrying by hand.
- handbrakes — Plural form of handbrake.
- 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
- hatchbacks — Plural form of hatchback.
- haversacks — Plural form of haversack.
- hawk's-eye — a dark-blue chatoyant quartz formed by the silicification of crocidolite, used for ornamental purposes. Compare tiger's-eye (def 1).
- hawksbills — Plural form of hawksbill.
- headstocks — Plural form of headstock.