10-letter words containing c, a, k, e
- doodlesack — bagpipe (def 1).
- dreadlocks — a hair style, especially among Rastafarians, in which the hair is worn in long, ropelike locks.
- duckwalked — Simple past tense and past participle of duckwalk.
- dustjacket — Alternative form of dust jacket.
- ekphrastic — Pertaining to ekphrasis; clear, lucid.
- escape key — a key on a computer keyboard used to leave a computer-program sequence before its end, in order to commence another sequence
- eukaryotic — (biology) Having complex cells in which the genetic material is organized into membrane-bound nuclei.
- facebooker — A person using the social networking website Facebook.
- fact-check — to confirm the truth of (an assertion made in speech or writing), often as part of the research or editorial process.
- feedbacker — One who provides feedback.
- fiddleback — something shaped like a fiddle.
- flare-back — a blast of flame that sometimes issues from the breech of a large gun or cannon when it is opened after firing.
- flarebacks — Plural form of flareback.
- folk dance — a dance that originated among, and has been transmitted through, the common people. Compare court dance.
- force back — If you force back an emotion or desire, you manage, with an effort, not to experience it.
- fruitcakes — Plural form of fruitcake.
- funkadelic — (music) Of, or relating to, funkadelia.
- gas cooker — cooking stove that runs on gas
- genoa cake — a rich fruit cake, usually decorated with almonds
- goalkicker — a person who makes a goal kick
- goatsucker — nightjar (def 2).
- gobsmacked — utterly astounded; astonished.
- great neck — a town on NW Long Island, in SE New York.
- greenbacks — Plural form of greenback.
- gun tackle — a tackle composed of a fall rove through two single blocks and secured to one of them so as to secure a mechanical advantage of two or three, neglecting friction, depending on the arrangement.
- hack house — Falconry. a shed where young hawks are kept and fed while at hack.
- hack value — Often adduced as the reason or motivation for expending effort toward a seemingly useless goal, the point being that the accomplished goal is a hack. For example, MacLISP had features for reading and printing Roman numerals, which were installed purely for hack value. See display hack for one method of computing hack value, but this cannot really be explained, only experienced. As Louis Armstrong once said when asked to explain jazz: "Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know." (Feminists please note Fats Waller's explanation of rhythm: "Lady, if you got to ask you ain't got it.")
- hackamores — Plural form of hackamore.
- hacked off — (jargon) (Analogous to "pissed off") Said of system administrators who have become annoyed, upset, or touchy owing to suspicions that their sites have been or are going to be victimised by crackers, or used for inappropriate, technically illegal, or even overtly criminal activities. For example, having unreadable files in your home directory called "worm", "lockpick", or "goroot" would probably be an effective (as well as impressively obvious and stupid) way to get your sysadmin hacked off at you.
- hackensack — a city in NE New Jersey, near New York City.
- hackerazzo — a person who hacks into the computer or phone of a celebrity in order to gain information about him or her
- hackeysack — A non-competition sport in which a small sack, or
- hackle fly — an artificial fly made with hackles, usually without wings.
- hackleback — shovelnose sturgeon.
- hackneying — Present participle of hackney.
- hackneyman — a man who rents out carriages and horses
- halfcocked — Simple past tense and past participle of halfcock.
- halterneck — A single strap or material which runs from the front of the garment around the back of the wearer's neck, leaving most of the back uncovered, often used in swimsuits and women's dresses.
- hamesucken — the offence of attacking a person in his or her own dwelling
- hammerlock — a hold in which one arm of an opponent is twisted and forced upward behind his back.
- hamshackle — to hobble (a cow, horse, etc) by tying a rope around the head and one of the legs
- handpicked — Picked by hand; picked or selected with care.
- hardbacked — (of a book) Having a solid binding; hardback.
- haversacks — Plural form of haversack.
- head clerk — a supervisor; manager
- headstocks — Plural form of headstock.
- heart back — a chair back having a form resembling that of a somewhat heart-shaped medieval shield.
- heath cock — the male of the black grouse.
- highjacker — a person who hijacks.
- hog-backed — cambered, as the ridge of a roof, a hill, etc.