10-letter words containing c, o, a, k, s
- dreadlocks — a hair style, especially among Rastafarians, in which the hair is worn in long, ropelike locks.
- duckboards — Plural form of duckboard.
- flash-lock — stanch1 (def 5).
- gas cooker — cooking stove that runs on gas
- goatsucker — nightjar (def 2).
- gobsmacked — utterly astounded; astonished.
- gottschalk — Louis Moreau [maw-roh,, moh-] /mɔˈroʊ,, moʊ-/ (Show IPA), 1829–69, U.S. pianist and composer.
- hack house — Falconry. a shed where young hawks are kept and fed while at hack.
- hackamores — Plural form of hackamore.
- 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.
- headstocks — Plural form of headstock.
- hopsacking — bagging made chiefly of hemp and jute.
- jack frost — frost or freezing cold personified.
- jacksonian — of or relating to Andrew Jackson, his ideas, the period of his presidency, or the political principles or social values associated with him: Jacksonian democracy.
- jacksonism — the group of political principles or attitudes associated with Andrew Jackson.
- jackstones — Plural form of jackstone.
- jockstraps — Plural form of jockstrap.
- kalanchoes — Plural form of kalanchoe.
- kickboards — Plural form of kickboard.
- kiloparsec — a unit of distance, equal to 1000 parsecs. Abbreviation: kpc.
- kilopascal — one thousand pascals
- knockbacks — Plural form of knockback.
- lockmaster — one in charge of a canal lock
- lose track — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- mackintosh — Charles Rennie [ren-ee] /ˈrɛn i/ (Show IPA), 1868–1928, Scottish architect and designer.
- matchbooks — Plural form of matchbook.
- matchlocks — Plural form of matchlock.
- monadnocks — Plural form of monadnock.
- mosaicking — a picture or decoration made of small, usually colored pieces of inlaid stone, glass, etc.
- mosaiclike — (arts) Resembling a mosaic, particularly in composition.
- mossbacked — Very conservative or reactionary, with old-fashioned views.
- notchbacks — Plural form of notchback.
- open-stack — having or being a system of library management in which patrons have direct access to stacks for browsing and selecting books; open-shelf.
- pack-horse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
- pastrycook — a person who makes pastry or pastries
- 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.
- postattack — to set upon in a forceful, violent, hostile, or aggressive way, with or without a weapon; begin fighting with: He attacked him with his bare hands.
- rackabones — 'a rack of bones', a metaphor for a person or animal that is very thin or emaciated
- rock falls — a city in NW Illinois.
- 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.
- scalp lock — a long lock or tuft of hair left on the shorn scalp by some North American Indian men.
- schafskopf — sheepshead (def 4).
- sea rocket — any of several plants of the related genus Cakile, esp C. maritima, which grow along the seashores of Europe and North America and have mauve, pink, or white flowers
- shackleton — Sir Ernest Henry, 1874–1922, English explorer of the Antarctic.
- shock wave — a region of abrupt change of pressure and density moving as a wave front at or above the velocity of sound, caused by an intense explosion or supersonic flow over a body.
- shockstall — the loss of lift and increase of drag experienced by transonic aircraft when strong shock waves on the wings cause the airflow to separate from the wing surfaces
- shylockian — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
- smack down — to humble or reprimand (someone who is overstepping bounds)
- smokestack — Also called stack. a pipe for the escape of the smoke or gases of combustion, as on a steamboat, locomotive, or building.