10-letter words containing c, h, o, k, e
- door check — a device, usually hydraulic or pneumatic, for controlling the closing of a door and preventing it from slamming.
- duck-shove — to evade responsibility (for)
- duckshover — one who duckshoves, jumps a queue; cheats
- echo check — a quality check and error-control technique for data transferred over a computer network or other communications link, in which the data received is stored and also transmitted back to its point of origin, where it is compared with the original data.
- fore-check — to obstruct or impede the movement or progress of an attacking opponent in the opponent's own defensive zone. Compare back-check, check1 (def 15).
- foreshocks — Plural form of foreshock.
- hack house — Falconry. a shed where young hawks are kept and fed while at hack.
- 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.
- hackerazzo — a person who hacks into the computer or phone of a celebrity in order to gain information about him or her
- halfcocked — Simple past tense and past participle of halfcock.
- hammerlock — a hold in which one arm of an opponent is twisted and forced upward behind his back.
- headstocks — Plural form of headstock.
- heath cock — the male of the black grouse.
- hectokilo- — one hundred thousand; the factor 105
- hip pocket — back pocket of trousers
- hockey mom — a mother who spends much time driving her children to hockey rinks, watching their games, and encouraging their participation in the sport: Hockey moms are made of tough stuff.
- hog sucker — any of several suckers of the genus Hypentelium, inhabiting cool streams of eastern North America and characterized by a broad head that is concave above.
- hog-backed — cambered, as the ridge of a roof, a hill, etc.
- hook check — a maneuver for depriving an opponent of the puck by seizing it in the crook of one's stick. Compare check1 (def 37).
- hop-picker — a person employed or a machine used to pick hops
- hot ticket — an extremely popular or trendy person or thing; a person or thing in high demand.
- hotel rack — rack6 (def 2).
- house dick — house detective.
- hucklebone — hipbone.
- ice hockey — a game played on ice between two teams of six skaters each, the object being to score goals by shooting a puck into the opponents' cage using a stick with a wooden blade set at an obtuse angle to the shaft.
- intershock — To shock mutually, as if by collision.
- jacky howe — (formerly) a sleeveless flannel shirt worn by sheep shearers
- jockeyship — the art or skill of a jockey
- john locke — Alain LeRoy [al-in luh-roi,, lee-roi] /ˈæl ɪn ləˈrɔɪ,, ˈli rɔɪ/ (Show IPA), 1886–1954, U.S. educator and author.
- johnnycake — a cake or bread made of corn meal and water or milk, usually cooked on a griddle.
- kalanchoes — Plural form of kalanchoe.
- kitchendom — the domain of the kitchen
- kodachrome — (lowercase) a positive color transparency.
- lockshield — (attributive) A kind of radiator valve used to balance the system by restricting the flow of water on the return side.
- neckcloths — Plural form of neckcloth.
- no chicken — no longer young
- okeechobee — Lake. a lake in S Florida, in the N part of the Everglades. 35 miles (56 km) long; 30 miles (48 km) wide.
- orchidlike — Resembling an orchid or some aspect of one.
- pack-horse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
- patchcocke — a clown
- peacockish — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
- phone-jack — to steal the mobile phone from (a person)
- pick holes — If you pick holes in an argument or theory, you find weak points in it so that it is no longer valid.
- poke check — an attempt to deprive an opponent of the puck by pushing it away with one's stick. Compare check1 (def 37).
- rockhopper — a small penguin, Eudyptes crestatus, of Antarctica, the Falkland Islands, and New Zealand, with a yellow crest on each side of its head
- screw hook — a hook having a shank in the form of a screw.
- shackleton — Sir Ernest Henry, 1874–1922, English explorer of the Antarctic.
- shellshock — loss of sight, memory, etc, resulting from psychological strain during prolonged engagement in warfare
- shevchenko — Taras Grigoryevich [Russian tah-ruh s gryi-gawr-yi-vyich] /Russian ˈtɑ rəs gryɪˈgɔr yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1814–61, Ukrainian national poet.