10-letter words containing a, s, o, k
- chowkidars — Plural form of chowkidar.
- class book — a book published by members of a school or college class, containing pictures of students and teachers, an account of student activities, etc.
- cloakrooms — Plural form of cloakroom.
- cockatiels — Plural form of cockatiel.
- cockteaser — a girl or woman who purposely excites or arouses a male sexually but then refuses to have intercourse.
- corkboards — Plural form of corkboard.
- corn snake — a large, harmless rat snake, Elaphe guttata guttata, of the southeastern U.S., having yellow, tan, or gray scales with dark-red blotches: once common in cornfields but now an endangered species.
- corn stack — corncrib.
- corncrakes — Plural form of corncrake.
- cornflakes — a breakfast cereal made from toasted maize, eaten with milk, sugar, etc
- cornstalks — Plural form of cornstalk.
- crackdowns — Plural form of crackdown.
- crackhouse — a place where cocaine in the form of crack is bought, sold, and smoked.
- cross talk — interference in one channel from another or others
- crossjacks — Plural form of crossjack.
- crosswalks — Plural form of crosswalk.
- 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.
- dead stock — farm equipment
- desert oak — a tree, Casuarina decaisneana, of Central and NW Australia, the timber of which is resistant to termite attack
- diplospeak — the polite and placatory language usually associated with diplomats
- do a skase — to skip the country while owing a large amount of money
- dobzhansky — Theodosius (Grigorievich) [gri-gawr-ee-uh-vich,, -gohr-] /grɪˈgɔr i ə vɪtʃ,, -ˈgoʊr-/ (Show IPA), 1900–75, U.S. geneticist, born in Russia.
- dockmaster — a person who supervises the dry-docking of ships.
- dog basket — a basket for a dog to sleep in
- doodlesack — bagpipe (def 1).
- dragonskin — The skin of a dragon, or leather made from it.
- drakestone — a flat stone thrown across the surface of water so as to make it skim or skip before sinking
- dreadlocks — a hair style, especially among Rastafarians, in which the hair is worn in long, ropelike locks.
- duckboards — Plural form of duckboard.
- earthworks — Plural form of earthwork.
- eukaryotes — Plural form of eukaryote.
- falseworks — Plural form of falsework.
- flash-lock — stanch1 (def 5).
- floodmarks — Plural form of floodmark.
- foreshanks — Plural form of foreshank.
- frameworks — Plural form of framework.
- freak show — a display of people or animals with unusual or grotesque physical features, as at a circus or carnival sideshow.
- gas cooker — cooking stove that runs on gas
- gas worker — a gas engineer
- glassworks — a factory where glass is made.
- go walkies — to be lost or stolen
- goatsucker — nightjar (def 2).
- gobsmacked — utterly astounded; astonished.
- gottschalk — Louis Moreau [maw-roh,, moh-] /mɔˈroʊ,, moʊ-/ (Show IPA), 1829–69, U.S. pianist and composer.
- hack house — Falconry. a shed where young hawks are kept and fed while at hack.
- hackamores — Plural form of hackamore.
- 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.
- hammerkops — Plural form of hammerkop.
- handstroke — the downward movement of the bell rope as the bell swings around allowing the ringer to grasp and pull it
- headstocks — Plural form of headstock.