10-letter words containing c, o, k, n
- 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.
- open stock — merchandise, especially china, silverware, and glassware, sold in sets with additional individual pieces available from stock for future purchases, as for replacement.
- 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.
- overreckon — to overestimate
- peacocking — 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 up on — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- planktonic — the aggregate of passively floating, drifting, or somewhat motile organisms occurring in a body of water, primarily comprising microscopic algae and protozoa.
- pound cake — a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.
- prick song — written music.
- quickthorn — hawthorn, esp when planted as a hedge
- rackabones — 'a rack of bones', a metaphor for a person or animal that is very thin or emaciated
- 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 candy — sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.
- rock fence — a wall built of unmortared stones, as one bordering a field.
- rock hound — a geologist.
- rock plant — a plant found among rocks or in rock gardens.
- rock snake — any large Australasian python of the genus Liasis
- rock-bound — hemmed in, enclosed, or covered by rocks; rocky: the rock-bound coast of Maine.
- rock-candy — sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.
- rock-hound — a geologist.
- rocket gun — any weapon that uses a rocket as a projectile, as a rocket launcher or bazooka.
- rockingham — Second Marquis of, Charles Watson-Wentworth.
- rollicking — carefree and joyous: They had a rollicking good time.
- rollocking — a very severe telling-off; dressing-down
- round rock — a town in central Texas.
- scene dock — dock1 (def 7).
- scoop neck — a round, usually low, neckline on a dress, blouse, etc.
- shackleton — Sir Ernest Henry, 1874–1922, English explorer of the Antarctic.
- shevchenko — Taras Grigoryevich [Russian tah-ruh s gryi-gawr-yi-vyich] /Russian ˈtɑ rəs gryɪˈgɔr yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1814–61, Ukrainian national poet.
- shockingly — causing intense surprise, disgust, horror, etc.
- shylockian — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
- shylocking — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
- skeletonic — resembling a skeleton
- skin color — tone of complexion
- smack down — to humble or reprimand (someone who is overstepping bounds)
- sock-liner — a thin piece of material, as leather, that is laid on top of the insole of a shoe, boot, or other footwear.
- soundtrack — the narrow band on one or both sides of a motion-picture film on which sound is recorded.
- spongecake — sweet cake of eggs and flour
- spoon back — a back of a chair or the like, having a splat curved outward at the bottom.
- springlock — a lock that fastens automatically by a spring.
- stick down — seal with an adhesive
- stock unit — the tax basis for evaluating farmers' stock. Cattle, sheep, and deer are each given differing stock-unit values, the basic measure being the ewe equivalent
- stockiness — the quality of being stocky
- stockinged — a close-fitting covering for the foot and part of the leg, usually knitted, of wool, cotton, nylon, silk, or similar material.
- stockinger — a person who knits on a stocking frame
- stockowner — stockholder (def 1).
- sunk costs — retrospective costs which have been incurred and cannot be recovered