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10-letter words containing c, o, k, e, r

  • 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.
  • reblocking — a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more flat or approximately flat faces.
  • reckonable — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
  • rock borer — any of various sea creatures that bore into rock, such as some sea urchins, sponges, annelid worms, barnacles, isopods, and molluscs
  • 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 cress — any of several low growing plants belonging to the genus Arabis, of the mustard family, having spikes or one-sided clusters of white, pink, or purple flowers, grown as an ornamental in rock gardens.
  • rock cycle — Geology. a continuous process by which rocks are created, changed from one form to another, destroyed, and then formed again.
  • rock fence — a wall built of unmortared stones, as one bordering a field.
  • rock fever — brucellosis.
  • rock maple — the sugar maple, Acer saccharum.
  • rock opera — an album that tells a story through the songs it contains
  • rock snake — any large Australasian python of the genus Liasis
  • rock tripe — any lichen of the genus Umbilicaria.
  • rock-faced — (of a person) having a stiff, expressionless face.
  • 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.
  • rocket gun — any weapon that uses a rocket as a projectile, as a rocket launcher or bazooka.
  • rockhopper — a small penguin, Eudyptes crestatus, of Antarctica, the Falkland Islands, and New Zealand, with a yellow crest on each side of its head
  • room clerk — a clerk at a hotel who assigns rooms to guests, keeps the guest register, sorts the incoming mail, etc.
  • ruck-rover — a player playing a role midway between that of the rover and the ruckman
  • screw hook — a hook having a shank in the form of a screw.
  • 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
  • sock-liner — a thin piece of material, as leather, that is laid on top of the insole of a shoe, boot, or other footwear.
  • sourcebook — a book which contains sources of information on a particular subject
  • stockhorse — a horse or pony used in herding cattle.
  • stockinger — a person who knits on a stocking frame
  • stockowner — stockholder (def 1).
  • stockrider — a cowboy.
  • stockroute — a public trail having right of way across private properties and over which cattle and sheep may be herded to grazing grounds or to market.
  • superblock — an area of city land larger than the usual block, treated according to a unified plan and generally closed to vehicular through traffic.
  • superstock — an exceptionally lucrative investment
  • take cover — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
  • task force — Navy, Military. a temporary grouping of units under one commander, formed for the purpose of carrying out a specific operation or mission.
  • tick-borne — carried or transmitted by ticks: tick-borne disease.
  • towel rack — a rack consisting of one or more bars on which towels or washcloths are hung.
  • town clerk — a town official who keeps records and issues licenses.
  • track shoe — a light, heelless, usually leather shoe having either steel spikes for use outdoors on a cinder or dirt track, or a rubber sole for use indoors on a board floor.
  • tucker-box — a box used to store or carry food.
  • understock — to provide an insufficient quantity, as of merchandise, supplies, or livestock.
  • unreckoned — not reckoned, noted, identified, or enumerated
  • weak force — a force between elementary particles that causes certain processes that take place with low probability, as radioactive beta-decay and collisions between neutrinos and other particles.
  • white rock — a city in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, SE of Vancouver.
  • wickerwork — material or products consisting of plaited or woven twigs or osiers; articles made of wicker.
  • woodpecker — any of numerous climbing birds of the family Picidae, having a hard, chisellike bill that it hammers repeatedly into wood in search of insects, stiff tail feathers to assist in climbing, and usually more or less boldly patterned plumage.
  • work ethic — a belief in the moral benefit and importance of work and its inherent ability to strengthen character.
  • work force — the total number of workers in a specific undertaking: a holiday for the company's work force.
  • work space — area used for work
  • workpieces — Plural form of workpiece.
  • workplaces — Plural form of workplace.
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