10-letter words containing c, r, o, k, e
- goatsucker — nightjar (def 2).
- gridlocked — Simple past tense and past participle of gridlock.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- jabberwock — a playful imitation of language consisting of invented, meaningless words; nonsense; gibberish.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- lower back — lumbar region
- lower deck — the lowermost deck in a hull having two or three decks.
- mamaroneck — a city in SE New York.
- 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.
- microquake — Microearthquake.
- mower deck — cutter deck.
- orchidlike — Resembling an orchid or some aspect of one.
- overcooked — Simple past tense and past participle of overcook.
- overlocker — a person who overlocks seams, hems, etc
- overreckon — to overestimate
- overstruck — to stamp a new device, value, or inscription on (a coin).
- pack-horse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
- peacockery — proud or ostentatious display
- peckerwood — Midland and Southern U.S. woodpecker.
- pickleworm — the larva of a pyralid moth, Diaphania nitidalis, that bores into the stem and fruit of squash, cucumber, and other cucurbitaceous plants.
- pocket rat — kangaroo rat (sense 1)
- pockmarked — Usually, pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
- 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.
- potsticker — a pan-fried and steamed Chinese dumpling with a ground meat or vegetable filling.
- 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.