10-letter words containing c, h, o, k
- chop block — butcher-block.
- chopsticks — a pair of small sticks of wood or ivory, held together in one hand and used in some Asian countries as utensils, as to lift food to the mouth
- chowkidars — Plural form of chowkidar.
- chroma key — an electronic special-effects system for combining a desired background with live foreground action.
- chubb lock — a type of lock with a device that sets the bolt immovably if the lock is picked
- chuckholes — Plural form of chuckhole.
- chuckwagon — A wagon equipped with food and cooking utensils, as on a ranch or in a lumber camp.
- clock-hour — a full 60-minute period, as of class instruction or therapeutic consultation. Compare hour (def 11).
- cloth-like — resembling cloth
- coach park — an area reserved for parking coaches
- coachmaker — A coachbuilder.
- coat check — The coat check at a public building such as a theater or club is the place where customers can leave their coats, usually for a small fee.
- cockchafer — any of various Old World scarabaeid beetles, esp Melolontha melolontha of Europe, whose larvae feed on crops and grasses
- cocked hat — A cocked hat is a hat with three corners that used to be worn with some uniforms.
- cockfights — Plural form of cockfight.
- cockhorses — Plural form of cockhorse.
- cook-chill — a method of food preparation used by caterers, in which cooked dishes are chilled rapidly and reheated as required
- corn shock — a stack or bundle of bound or unbound corn piled upright for curing or drying
- corn shuck — the husk of an ear of maize
- cornhusker — a person or machine that strips cornhusks from ears of maize
- crackhouse — a place where cocaine in the form of crack is bought, sold, and smoked.
- crosscheck — to verify (a fact, report, etc) by considering conflicting opinions or consulting other sources
- deckhouses — Plural form of deckhouse.
- dock house — traditionally a building situated at the dock where a harbourmaster works and resides
- doohickeys — Plural form of doohickey.
- 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.
- flash-lock — stanch1 (def 5).
- 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.
- gottschalk — Louis Moreau [maw-roh,, moh-] /mɔˈroʊ,, moʊ-/ (Show IPA), 1829–69, U.S. pianist and composer.
- hack board — Falconry. a board or platform at which hawks being flown at hack are fed.
- 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
- hackintosh — 1. (jargon, computer) An Apple Lisa that has been hacked into emulating a Macintosh (also called a "Mac XL"). 2. (jargon, computer) A Macintosh assembled from parts theoretically belonging to different models in the line.
- 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.
- hard-knock — beset with hardship.
- 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.
- hollyhocks — Plural form of hollyhock.