10-letter words containing c, o, r, k, s
- cross talk — interference in one channel from another or others
- cross-link — a chemical bond, atom, or group of atoms that connects two adjacent chains of atoms in a large molecule such as a polymer or protein
- crosscheck — to verify (a fact, report, etc) by considering conflicting opinions or consulting other sources
- crossjacks — Plural form of crossjack.
- crosswalks — Plural form of crosswalk.
- disfrocked — Simple past tense and past participle of disfrock.
- dockmaster — a person who supervises the dry-docking of ships.
- dreadlocks — a hair style, especially among Rastafarians, in which the hair is worn in long, ropelike locks.
- drillstock — a device for holding a drill.
- dry socket — a painful inflammatory infection of the bone and tissues at the site of an extracted tooth.
- duckboards — Plural form of duckboard.
- duckshover — one who duckshoves, jumps a queue; cheats
- foreshocks — Plural form of foreshock.
- gas cooker — cooking stove that runs on gas
- goatsucker — nightjar (def 2).
- hackamores — Plural form of hackamore.
- hog sucker — any of several suckers of the genus Hypentelium, inhabiting cool streams of eastern North America and characterized by a broad head that is concave above.
- interlocks — Plural form of interlock.
- intershock — To shock mutually, as if by collision.
- interstock — a stock grafted between the understock and the scion.
- jack frost — frost or freezing cold personified.
- jockstraps — Plural form of jockstrap.
- keep score — sport: record results
- key escrow — (security) A controversial arrangement where the keys needed to decrypt encrypted data must be held in escrow by a third party so that government agencies can obtain them to decrypt messages which they suspect to be relevant to national security.
- kickboards — Plural form of kickboard.
- kicksorter — a multichannel pulse-height analyser used esp to distinguish between isotopes by sorting their characteristic pulses (kicks)
- kiloparsec — a unit of distance, equal to 1000 parsecs. Abbreviation: kpc.
- knockwurst — knackwurst.
- 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a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- 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.
- lovestruck — Alternative spelling of love-struck.
- mckeesport — a city in SW Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.
- mesokurtic — (of a frequency distribution or its graphical representation) having the same kurtosis as the normal distribution.
- microskirt — An extremely short skirt, ending just underneath the buttocks.
- moonstruck — mentally deranged, supposedly by the influence of the moon; crazed.
- ollycrocks — Plural form of ollycrock.
- overstruck — to stamp a new device, value, or inscription on (a coin).
- pack-horse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
- pastrycook — a person who makes pastry or pastries
- pitchforks — a large, long-handled fork for manually lifting and pitching hay, stalks of grain, etc.
- potsticker — a pan-fried and steamed Chinese dumpling with a ground meat or vegetable filling.
- prick song — written music.
- prick-post — (in a framed structure) a secondary post, as a queen post.
- rackabones — 'a rack of bones', a metaphor for a person or animal that is very thin or emaciated
- 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 falls — a city in NW Illinois.
- rock music — heavy form of pop music
- 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.