10-letter words containing c, o, r, k
- corncockle — a European caryophyllaceous plant, Agrostemma githago, that has reddish-purple flowers and grows in cornfields and by roadsides
- corncrakes — Plural form of corncrake.
- cornerback — a defensive back
- cornflakes — a breakfast cereal made from toasted maize, eaten with milk, sugar, etc
- cornhusker — a person or machine that strips cornhusks from ears of maize
- cornstalks — Plural form of cornstalk.
- cornsticks — Plural form of cornstick.
- corpselike — Resembling a corpse.
- coursebook — a book studied on an educational course
- coursework — written or oral work completed by a student within a given period, which is assessed as an integral part of an educational course
- cow killer — a large velvet ant (Dasymutilla occidentalis) of the S and E U.S.: the wingless female has a powerful sting
- crack down — If people in authority crack down on a group of people, they become stricter in making the group obey rules or laws.
- crack root — (security, jargon) To defeat the security system of a Unix machine and gain root privileges thereby. The sort of thing a cracker wants to do.
- crackdowns — Plural form of crackdown.
- crackhouse — a place where cocaine in the form of crack is bought, sold, and smoked.
- crewelwork — embroidery done with crewel
- crooked on — hostile or averse to
- crookedest — Superlative form of crooked.
- crookesite — a rare mineral, selenide of copper, thallium, and silver, (Cu, Tl, Ag) 2 Se, occurring in steel-gray, compact masses.
- crooknecks — Plural form of crookneck.
- cross buck — an offensive play in which two running backs cross paths and charge into the line on opposite sides, one back receiving the ball from the quarterback and the other back faking possession.
- 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.
- crowkeeper — a person who guards crops from crows
- cuckoo ray — a fish, Raja naevus
- dark cloud — grey clouds threatening rain
- deck cargo — cargo that is carried on the deck of a ship
- defrocking — Present participle of defrock.
- disfrocked — Simple past tense and past participle of disfrock.
- dockmaster — a person who supervises the dry-docking of ships.
- dockworker — a person employed on the docks of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
- dog tucker — the meat of a sheep killed on a farm and used as dog food
- door check — a device, usually hydraulic or pneumatic, for controlling the closing of a door and preventing it from slamming.
- dreadlocks — a hair style, especially among Rastafarians, in which the hair is worn in long, ropelike locks.
- drillstock — a device for holding a drill.
- drop black — carbon, as animal black or lampblack, formed into pellets by mixing with water or glue: used as a black pigment.
- dropkicked — Simple past tense and past participle of dropkick.
- dropkicker — One who dropkicks.
- 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
- eukaryotic — (biology) Having complex cells in which the genetic material is organized into membrane-bound nuclei.
- facebooker — A person using the social networking website Facebook.
- folklorico — Mexican folk dancing, especially a program or repertoire of such dances.
- food truck — a truck or van from which food is sold, as to people on the street.
- footlicker — A sycophant; a fawner; a toady.
- footlocker — A small trunk or storage chest, originally stored at the foot of a bed.