10-letter words containing c, h, o, k
- 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
- hopsacking — bagging made chiefly of hemp and jute.
- 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.
- hydrocrack — to crack (petroleum or the like) in the presence of hydrogen.
- 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.
- in hock to — If you are in hock to someone, you feel you have to do things for them because they have given you money or support.
- 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
- klootchman — a North American Indian woman
- knob latch — a latch having a spring bolt controlled by a knob on one or both sides.
- kodachrome — (lowercase) a positive color transparency.
- kuang-chou — Guangzhou
- latch hook — a handheld tool similar to a latch needle, used for drawing loops of yarn through canvas or similar material to make rugs and the like.
- lock horns — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- lockshield — (attributive) A kind of radiator valve used to balance the system by restricting the flow of water on the return side.
- locksmiths — Plural form of locksmith.
- lockstitch — A stitch made by a sewing machine by firmly linking together two threads or stitches.
- mackintosh — Charles Rennie [ren-ee] /ˈrɛn i/ (Show IPA), 1868–1928, Scottish architect and designer.
- makunouchi — a Japanese fast food dish consisting of fish, meat, eggs, and vegetables served with rice and an umeboshi
- matchbooks — Plural form of matchbook.
- matchlocks — Plural form of matchlock.
- neckcloths — Plural form of neckcloth.
- no chicken — no longer young
- nolichucky — a river in W North Carolina and E Tennessee, flowing NW and W to the French Broad River. 150 miles (241 km) long.
- notchbacks — Plural form of notchback.
- nouakchott — Official name Islamic Republic of Mauritania. a republic in W Africa, largely in the Sahara Desert: formerly a French colony; a member of the French Community 1958–66; independent 1960. 418,120 sq. mi. (1,082,931 sq. km). Capital: Nouakchott.
- 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.
- pitchforks — a large, long-handled fork for manually lifting and pitching hay, stalks of grain, etc.
- poke check — an attempt to deprive an opponent of the puck by pushing it away with one's stick. Compare check1 (def 37).
- quickthorn — hawthorn, esp when planted as a hedge
- roach back — an arched back, as of a dog.
- rock chick — a girl or woman who likes rock music and dresses in a typical rock-and-roll style
- rock hound — a geologist.
- rock hyrax — an African and Middle Eastern hyrax of the genus Procavia that lives in rocky places.
- rock-hound — a geologist.