10-letter words containing c, o, k, p
- 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.
- optic disk — blind spot (sense 1)
- outspeckle — a spectacle
- pack-horse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
- packed out — If a place is packed out, it is very full of people.
- pastrycook — a person who makes pastry or pastries
- patchcocke — a clown
- peacockery — proud or ostentatious display
- 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.
- 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.
- peckerwood — Midland and Southern U.S. woodpecker.
- 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- pick holes — If you pick holes in an argument or theory, you find weak points in it so that it is no longer valid.
- pick up on — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- picketboat — a boat which keeps guard
- pickleworm — the larva of a pyralid moth, Diaphania nitidalis, that bores into the stem and fruit of squash, cucumber, and other cucurbitaceous plants.
- pickpocket — a person who steals money, wallets, etc., from the pockets of people, as in crowded public places.
- pitchforks — a large, long-handled fork for manually lifting and pitching hay, stalks of grain, etc.
- planktonic — the aggregate of passively floating, drifting, or somewhat motile organisms occurring in a body of water, primarily comprising microscopic algae and protozoa.
- pocket rat — kangaroo rat (sense 1)
- pocketable — small enough to be carried in one's pocket; pocket-size.
- pocketbook — a woman's purse or handbag.
- pockmarked — Usually, pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
- pogo stick — a long stick having a pair of handles at the top and, near the bottom, a pair of footrests attached to a powerful spring, so that by standing on the footrests while grasping the handles, one can propel oneself along in a series of leaps.
- poikilitic — (of igneous rocks) having small crystals of one mineral scattered irregularly in larger crystals of another mineral.
- poke check — an attempt to deprive an opponent of the puck by pushing it away with one's stick. Compare check1 (def 37).
- poker dice — (used with a plural verb) dice that, instead of being marked with spots, carry on their faces a picture or symbol representing the six highest playing cards: ace, king, queen, jack, ten, nine.
- poker face — an expressionless face: He can tell a funny story with a poker face.
- polo stick — a stick used to strike the ball in the game of polo
- 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.
- potsticker — a pan-fried and steamed Chinese dumpling with a ground meat or vegetable filling.
- pound cake — a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.
- power pack — a device for converting the voltage from a power line or battery to the various voltages required by the components of an electronic circuit.
- pre-cooked — Pre-cooked food has been prepared and cooked in advance so that it only needs to be heated quickly before you eat it.
- prick song — written music.
- prick-post — (in a framed structure) a secondary post, as a queen post.
- rock maple — the sugar maple, Acer saccharum.
- rock opera — an album that tells a story through the songs it contains
- rock pipit — a small passerine bird; Anthus petrosis
- rock plant — a plant found among rocks or in rock gardens.
- 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.
- rock tripe — any lichen of the genus Umbilicaria.
- rockhopper — a small penguin, Eudyptes crestatus, of Antarctica, the Falkland Islands, and New Zealand, with a yellow crest on each side of its head
- scalp lock — a long lock or tuft of hair left on the shorn scalp by some North American Indian men.
- schafskopf — sheepshead (def 4).
- scoop neck — a round, usually low, neckline on a dress, blouse, etc.
- shockproof — Also, shock-proof. (of timepieces, machinery, etc.) protected against damage resulting from anticipated shocks.
- spark coil — a coil of many turns of insulated wire on an iron core, used for producing sparks.
- spatchcock — a fowl that has been dressed and split open for grilling.
- spitchcock — an eel that is split, cut into pieces, and broiled or fried.