10-letter words containing a, w, k
- crack down — If people in authority crack down on a group of people, they become stricter in making the group obey rules or laws.
- crack wise — to joke or gibe
- crackdowns — Plural form of crackdown.
- cradlewalk — a garden walkway covered by arched trees
- crosswalks — Plural form of crosswalk.
- deck watch — (on a ship) a precision watch used on deck for navigational purposes to avoid disturbing the chronometer.
- dog-walker — a person who walks other people's dogs, especially for a fee.
- down quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 0.005 to 0.015 GeV/c2, a negative charge that is 1⁄3 the charge of an electron, zero charm, and zero strangeness
- downmarket — Toward or relating to the cheaper or less prestigious sector of the market.
- draw poker — a variety of poker in which a player is dealt five cards and, after an initial bet, may discard usually up to three of these cards and receive replacements from the dealer.
- drawknives — Plural form of drawknife.
- drawn work — ornamental work done by drawing threads from a fabric, the remaining portions usually being formed into lacelike patterns by needlework.
- drinkwater — John, 1882–1937, English poet, playwright, and critic.
- duckwalked — Simple past tense and past participle of duckwalk.
- eagle-hawk — a large aggressive Australian eagle, Aquila audax
- earthworks — Plural form of earthwork.
- falseworks — Plural form of falsework.
- farmworker — farm hand.
- fellwalker — a person who hikes over fells
- folk weave — a type of fabric with a loose weave
- 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 worker — a gas engineer
- glassworks — a factory where glass is made.
- go walkies — to be lost or stolen
- grasswrack — any of several perennial submerged marine plants of the genus Zostera; eelgrass
- great week — Holy Week.
- half-awake — waking; not sleeping.
- 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.
- hillwalker — a person who goes hillwalking
- hot-walker — a person whose job is walking racehorses after races, workouts, etc. to allow them to cool off gradually
- jabberwock — a playful imitation of language consisting of invented, meaningless words; nonsense; gibberish.
- jack towel — a long towel with the ends sewed together, for hanging on a roller.
- jackscrews — Plural form of jackscrew.
- jackstraws — one of a group of strips of wood or similar objects, as straws or toothpicks, used in the game of jackstraws.
- jacky howe — (formerly) a sleeveless flannel shirt worn by sheep shearers
- jawbreaker — Informal. a word that is hard to pronounce.
- jaywalkers — Plural form of jaywalker.
- jaywalking — to cross a street at a place other than a regular crossing or in a heedless manner, as diagonally or against a traffic light.
- keep watch — observe, maintain a vigil
- kept woman — a woman maintained by a man as his mistress
- ki-swahili — Swahili (def 2).
- king prawn — any of several large prawns of the genus Penaeus, which are fished commercially in Australian waters
- kitty hawk — a village in NE North Carolina: Wright brothers' airplane flight 1903.
- knackwurst — a short, thick, highly seasoned sausage.
- korean war — the war, begun on June 25, 1950, between North Korea, aided by Communist China, and South Korea, aided by the United States and other United Nations members forming a United Nations armed force: truce signed July 27, 1953.
- kowhaiwhai — a type of ornamental Māori art that uses elaborate scroll patterns
- lackawanna — a city in W New York, on Lake Erie, near Buffalo.
- lake worth — a city in SE Florida.