10-letter words containing a, s, k, i, c
- ransacking — to search thoroughly or vigorously through (a house, receptacle, etc.): They ransacked the house for the missing letter.
- reichsbank — the former German national bank.
- reichsmark — the monetary unit of Germany from November, 1924, until 1948. Compare Deutsche mark, mark2 (def 1), ostmark.
- rickettsia — any member of the genus Rickettsia, comprising rod-shaped to coccoid microorganisms that resemble bacteria but can be as small as a large virus and reproduce only inside a living cell, parasitic in fleas, ticks, lice, and mites and transmitted by bite to vertebrate hosts, including humans, causing such severe diseases as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
- salt stick — a crusty bread roll sprinkled with salt crystals, made in the shape of a cylinder.
- sanskritic — an Indo-European, Indic language, in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India. Abbreviation: Skt.
- saucerlike — resembling a saucer
- scarf-skin — the outermost layer of the skin; epidermis.
- scrimshank — to avoid one's obligations or share of work; shirk.
- shakuhachi — a wooden Japanese end-blown flute with four holes in front and one at the back
- shankpiece — a piece of metal or fiber for giving form to the shank of a shoe.
- shrinkpack — flexible plastic used for shrink-wrapping goods
- shylockian — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
- sick leave — leave from duty, work, or the like, granted because of illness.
- sickle bar — cutter bar (def 1).
- sicklemias — the usually asymptomatic hereditary condition that occurs when a person inherits from only one parent the abnormal hemoglobin gene characteristic of sickle cell anemia.
- silverback — an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.
- skid chain — a chain fitting over the tire of a car, truck, or other vehicle, to increase traction and prevent skidding on roads covered with ice or snow.
- skin patch — an adhesive patch stuck to the skin to slowly and steadily release medicine into the bloodstream
- skyjacking — an act or instance of hijacking an aircraft.
- slack suit — a man's suit for casual wear consisting of slacks and a matching shirt or loose-fitting jacket.
- slackening — an act of becoming looser
- sling-back — Also called sling. a woman's shoe with an open back and a strap or sling encircling the heel of the foot to keep the shoe secure.
- soil stack — a vertical soil pipe.
- spark coil — a coil of many turns of insulated wire on an iron core, used for producing sparks.
- stickybeak — a busybody; meddler.
- still pack — the pack not in play in a game in which two packs are used alternately.
- strickland — William, 1787–1854, U.S. architect and engineer.
- switchback — a highway, as in a mountainous area, having many hairpin curves.
- taperstick — a candlestick designed to hold tapers.
- thai stick — a cigar-shaped stick of highly potent marijuana from Thailand.
- tipsy cake — a kind of trifle made from a sponge cake soaked with white wine or sherry and decorated with almonds and crystallized fruit
- track suit — a sweat suit, usually with a long-sleeved jacket and long pants, worn by athletes, especially runners, before and after actual competition or during workouts.
- ultraslick — extremely smooth or slippery
- unstacking — a more or less orderly pile or heap: a precariously balanced stack of books; a neat stack of papers.
- waist pack — fanny pack.
- water-sick — (of soil) unproductive due to excessive watering or salt residues from irrigation.
- weizsacker — Carl Friedrich von [kahrl free-drikh fuh n] /kɑrl ˈfri drɪx fən/ (Show IPA), 1912–2007, German physicist and cosmologist.
- whisky mac — a drink consisting of whisky and ginger wine
- whiskyjack — (Canada) Alternative form of whisky jack (gray jay, Canada jay).
- willywacks — willowwacks.
- wisecracks — Make a wisecrack.
- yardsticks — Plural form of yardstick.