10-letter words containing c, o, r, k
- force back — If you force back an emotion or desire, you manage, with an effort, not to experience it.
- fore-check — to obstruct or impede the movement or progress of an attacking opponent in the opponent's own defensive zone. Compare back-check, check1 (def 15).
- foreshocks — Plural form of foreshock.
- frock coat — a man's close-fitting, knee-length coat, single-breasted or double-breasted and with a vent in the back.
- frock tart — a person who makes or designs costumes for films or television
- frolicking — merry play; merriment; gaiety; fun.
- gas cooker — cooking stove that runs on gas
- goalkicker — a person who makes a goal kick
- goatsucker — nightjar (def 2).
- gold brick — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
- gridlocked — Simple past tense and past participle of gridlock.
- grind rock — whetstone.
- hack board — Falconry. a board or platform at which hawks being flown at hack are fed.
- hackamores — Plural form of hackamore.
- hackerazzo — a person who hacks into the computer or phone of a celebrity in order to gain information about him or her
- hammerlock — a hold in which one arm of an opponent is twisted and forced upward behind his back.
- hard-knock — beset with hardship.
- 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.
- hop-picker — a person employed or a machine used to pick hops
- hotel rack — rack6 (def 2).
- hydrocrack — to crack (petroleum or the like) in the presence of hydrogen.
- inner dock — a part of dock or pier which is further inland
- interlocks — Plural form of interlock.
- intershock — To shock mutually, as if by collision.
- interstock — a stock grafted between the understock and the scion.
- ion rocket — a rocket or rocket engine using ion propulsion.
- iron brick — brick having a sprinkling of dark spots caused by the presence of iron salts.
- jabberwock — a playful imitation of language consisting of invented, meaningless words; nonsense; gibberish.
- jack frost — frost or freezing cold personified.
- jockstraps — Plural form of jockstrap.
- karyologic — of or relating to karyology
- karyotypic — Of or pertaining to karyotypes.
- 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)
- kilmarnock — Official name Kilmarnock and Loudon. an administrative district in the Strathclyde region, in SW Scotland.
- kiloparsec — a unit of distance, equal to 1000 parsecs. Abbreviation: kpc.
- king cobra — a cobra, Ophiophagus hannah, of southeastern Asia and the East Indies, that grows to a length of more than 15 feet (5 meters): the largest of the venomous snakes.
- kleptocrat — a government official who is a thief or exploiter.
- knackebrod — flat, thin, brittle unleavened rye bread.
- knock over — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
- knockwurst — knackwurst.
- kodachrome — (lowercase) a positive color transparency.
- lego brick — a toy plastic brick with studs which can be connected to other plastic bricks and used to construct toy buildings, vehicles, etc
- 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.
- lockkeeper — The person assigned to look after a canal or river lock, operating it and organizing its maintenance.
- 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.