10-letter words containing c, a, r, k
- prepackage — to package (foodstuffs or manufactured goods) before retail distribution or sale.
- prepacking — a package assembled by a manufacturer, distributor, or retailer and containing a specific number of items or a specific assortment of sizes, colors, flavors, etc., of a product.
- press pack — a dismissive term for a group of journalists, viewed as hounding a person
- press-back — a wooden chair back having a design pressed, rather than carved, into its crossrails.
- quackgrass — A species of grass, Elymus repens.
- quick draw — a game or competition in which the winner is the quickest person to draw a handgun from a holster and sometimes to fire it and hit a target.
- quickwater — the part of a river or other stream having a strong current.
- race-track — a plot of ground, usually oval, laid out for horse racing.
- racetracks — Plural form of racetrack.
- racewalker — a person who participates in racewalking
- rackabones — 'a rack of bones', a metaphor for a person or animal that is very thin or emaciated
- racked out — a framework of bars, wires, or pegs on which articles are arranged or deposited: a clothes rack; a luggage rack.
- rain check — a ticket for future use given to spectators at an outdoor event, as a baseball game or concert, that has been postponed or interrupted by rain.
- ramshackle — dilapidated, run down
- ranch mink — a semiaquatic mink, Mustela vision, raised commercially for its fur.
- rank scale — (in systemic linguistics) a hierarchical ordering of grammatical units such that a unit of a given rank normally consists of units of the next lower rank, as, in English, the ordering sentence, clause, group or phrase, word, morpheme.
- ransacking — to search thoroughly or vigorously through (a house, receptacle, etc.): They ransacked the house for the missing letter.
- ranshackle — to ransack
- reckonable — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- red jacket — (Sagoyewatha) c1756–1830, Seneca leader.
- red packet — a sum of money folded inside red paper and given at the Chinese New Year to unmarried younger relatives
- reichsbank — the former German national bank.
- reichsmark — the monetary unit of Germany from November, 1924, until 1948. Compare Deutsche mark, mark2 (def 1), ostmark.
- repackager — a person who or a company that repackages
- retracking — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- rickettsia — any member of the genus Rickettsia, comprising rod-shaped to coccoid microorganisms that resemble bacteria but can be as small as a large virus and reproduce only inside a living cell, parasitic in fleas, ticks, lice, and mites and transmitted by bite to vertebrate hosts, including humans, causing such severe diseases as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
- roach back — an arched back, as of a dog.
- rock brake — any of various ferns of the genera Pellaea and Cryptogramma, which grow on rocky ground and have sori at the ends of the veins
- rock candy — sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.
- rock falls — a city in NW Illinois.
- rock hyrax — an African and Middle Eastern hyrax of the genus Procavia that lives in rocky places.
- rock maple — the sugar maple, Acer saccharum.
- rock opera — an album that tells a story through the songs it contains
- rock plant — a plant found among rocks or in rock gardens.
- 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.
- rock-candy — sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.
- rock-faced — (of a person) having a stiff, expressionless face.
- rockabilly — a style of popular music combining the features of rock-'n'-roll and hillbilly music.
- rocker arm — a rocking or oscillating arm or lever rotating with a moving shaft or pivoted on a stationary shaft.
- rocker cam — a cam with a rocking or reciprocating motion.
- rockingham — Second Marquis of, Charles Watson-Wentworth.
- sack dress — a loose, unbelted dress that hangs straight from the shoulder to the hemline.
- salesclerk — a person who sells goods in a store.
- sand crack — a crack or fissure in the hoof of a horse, extending from the coronet downward toward the sole, caused by a dryness of horn.
- sandsucker — the flatfish Platessa limandoides
- sanskritic — an Indo-European, Indic language, in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India. Abbreviation: Skt.
- saucerlike — resembling a saucer
- scarf-skin — the outermost layer of the skin; epidermis.
- scent-mark — to deposit a scent mark; mark.