10-letter words containing a, s, k, o
- poltoratsk — a city in and the capital of Turkmenistan, in the S central part, near the Iranian border.
- postattack — to set upon in a forceful, violent, hostile, or aggressive way, with or without a weapon; begin fighting with: He attacked him with his bare hands.
- postmarked — an official mark stamped on letters and other mail, serving as a cancellation of the postage stamp and indicating the place, date, and sometimes time of sending or receipt.
- pyatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
- rackabones — 'a rack of bones', a metaphor for a person or animal that is very thin or emaciated
- raskolniki — a member of any of several sects founded by dissenters from the Russian Orthodox Church who opposed the liturgical reforms of Nikon in the 17th century.
- rock falls — a city in NW Illinois.
- rock snake — any large Australasian python of the genus Liasis
- rock spray — a low, evergreen, Himalayan shrub, Cotoneaster microphyllus, of the rose family, having shiny leaves with grayish, hairy undersides, white flowers, and scarlet berries.
- rosa parks — Gordon (Alexander Buchanan) 1912–2006, U.S. photojournalist and film director.
- sailorlike — resembling a sailor
- salad fork — a small, broad fork, usually one of a set, for eating salad or dessert.
- sandy hook — a peninsula in E New Jersey, at the entrance to lower New York Bay. 6 miles (10 km) long.
- scalp lock — a long lock or tuft of hair left on the shorn scalp by some North American Indian men.
- schafskopf — sheepshead (def 4).
- sea rocket — any of several plants of the related genus Cakile, esp C. maritima, which grow along the seashores of Europe and North America and have mauve, pink, or white flowers
- shackleton — Sir Ernest Henry, 1874–1922, English explorer of the Antarctic.
- shadowlike — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- shake down — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
- shake-down — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
- shock wave — a region of abrupt change of pressure and density moving as a wave front at or above the velocity of sound, caused by an intense explosion or supersonic flow over a body.
- shockstall — the loss of lift and increase of drag experienced by transonic aircraft when strong shock waves on the wings cause the airflow to separate from the wing surfaces
- shopwalker — a floorwalker.
- shore lark — a bird: Eremophila alpestris
- shotmaking — the playing of good shots (by a sports player)
- shylockian — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
- skate over — to cross on or as if on skates
- skateboard — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
- smack down — to humble or reprimand (someone who is overstepping bounds)
- smokeboard — a board situated above a fireplace to prevent the emission of smoke into a room
- smokestack — Also called stack. a pipe for the escape of the smoke or gases of combustion, as on a steamboat, locomotive, or building.
- snake foot — an elongated foot or short leg, as to a pedestal table, having the form of an ogee tangent to the floor surface.
- snakemouth — rose pogonia.
- snakestone — a piece of porous material popularly supposed to neutralize the toxic effect of a snakebite.
- snowmaking — the creation of artificial snow at ski areas.
- soapflakes — small particles of solid soap or detergent used for washing clothes
- soil stack — a vertical soil pipe.
- soundalike — a person or thing that sounds like another, especially a better known or more famous prototype: a whole spate of Elvis Presley soundalikes.
- soundtrack — the narrow band on one or both sides of a motion-picture film on which sound is recorded.
- spark coil — a coil of many turns of insulated wire on an iron core, used for producing sparks.
- spatchcock — a fowl that has been dressed and split open for grilling.
- spoil bank — a bank of excavated refuse or waste earth, as of shale from surface coal mining.
- spokeshave — a cutting tool having a blade set between two handles, originally for shaping spokes, but now in general use for dressing curved edges of wood and forming round bars and shapes.
- spongecake — sweet cake of eggs and flour
- spoon back — a back of a chair or the like, having a splat curved outward at the bottom.
- squawk box — the speaker of a public-address system or an intercom system; loudspeaker.
- stake boat — an anchored boat to which barges or other boats are temporarily moored.
- stake body — an open truck body having a platform with sockets at the edge into which upright stakes may be placed to form a fence around a load.
- steakhouse — a restaurant specializing in beefsteak.
- stock farm — a farm devoted to breeding livestock.