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10-letter words containing a, s, o, k

  • 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.
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