10-letter words containing a, y, k
- matryoshka — Each of a set of brightly painted hollow wooden dolls of varying sizes, designed to nest inside one another.
- mayakovski — Vladimir Vladimirovich [vlad-uh-meer vlad-uh-meer-uh-vich;; Russian vluh-dyee-myir vluh-dyee-myi-ruh-vyich] /ˈvlæd əˌmɪər ˌvlæd əˈmɪər əˌvɪtʃ;; Russian vlʌˈdyi myɪr vlʌˈdyi myɪ rə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1930, Russian poet.
- merrymaker — a person who gaily or enthusiastically takes part in some festive or merry celebration; reveler.
- miaskovsky — Nikolai Yakovlevich [nik-uh-lahy;; Russian nyi-kuh-lahy yuh-kaw-vlyuh-vyich] /ˈnɪk əˌlaɪ;; Russian nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ yʌˈkɔ vlyə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1881–1950, Russian composer.
- milk gravy — a gravy or sauce made from cooking fat, milk, flour, and seasonings.
- mistakably — In a mistakable manner.
- mistakenly — wrongly conceived, held, or done: a mistaken antagonism.
- mollymawks — Plural form of mollymawk.
- moneymaker — a person engaged in or successful at acquiring much money.
- mythmakers — Plural form of mythmaker.
- mythmaking — the practice of creating myths
- naked lady — amaryllis (def 2).
- naked-lady — any of several bulbous plants of the genus Hippeastrum, especially H. puniceum, which has large red or pink flowers and is popular as a houseplant. Compare amaryllis family.
- newark bay — a bay in NE New Jersey. 6 miles (10 km) long; 1 mile (1.6 km) wide.
- paddywhack — Informal. a spanking.
- pastrycook — a person who makes pastry or pastries
- patty-cake — pat-a-cake.
- pay packet — Your pay packet is the envelope containing your wages, which your employer gives you at the end of every week.
- peacockery — proud or ostentatious display
- perikaryal — of or pertaining to the perikaryon of a nerve; involving or occurring within a perikaryon
- perikaryon — cell body.
- pickaninny — a term used to refer to a black child.
- piggy bank — a small bank, having the shape of a pig, provided with a slot at the top to receive small coins.
- play hooky — play truant, be absent from school
- playbroker — play agent.
- playmaking — the initiating of offensive plays in sports
- prankingly — showily, in an ostentatious or pranking manner
- prankishly — in a prankish manner, mischievously
- prokaryote — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- pyatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
- quackishly — In a quackish manner.
- quick clay — a water-saturated clay that changes rapidly to a fluid state when jarred or crushed, as by an earthquake or pile driver
- rekeyboard — to enter (information) again on a keyboard or other similar device
- remarkably — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
- rock candy — sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.
- rock hyrax — an African and Middle Eastern hyrax of the genus Procavia that lives in rocky places.
- 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.
- rock-candy — sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.
- rockabilly — a style of popular music combining the features of rock-'n'-roll and hillbilly music.
- royal duke — a duke who is also a royal prince, being a member of the royal family
- sandy hook — a peninsula in E New Jersey, at the entrance to lower New York Bay. 6 miles (10 km) long.
- sassy bark — sasswood.
- savitskaya — Svetlana (svɛtˈlɑːnə). born 1949, Soviet cosmonaut, the first woman to walk in space (1984). She was elected to the former Soviet parliament (1989)
- shakyamuni — Sakyamuni.
- shylockian — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
- sky marker — a parachute flare dropped to mark a target area
- skyjacking — an act or instance of hijacking an aircraft.
- skylarking — a brown-speckled European lark, Alauda arvensis, famed for its melodious song.
- skyscraper — a relatively tall building of many stories, especially one for office or commercial use.
- snake eyes — a cast of two; two aces.