10-letter words containing d, e, a, k
- brake band — a strip of fabric, leather, or metal tightened around a pulley or shaft to act as a brake
- brake disc — a metal disc that revolves with the wheel in a disc brake
- brake drum — the cast-iron drum attached to the hub of a wheel of a motor vehicle fitted with drum brakes
- brake fade — a gradual loss of braking power resulting from decreased friction between the lining and the drum or disc of the brake and usually caused by overheating.
- brake-fade — the decrease in efficiency of braking of a motor vehicle due to overheating of the brakes
- breadknife — a knife, usually with a serrated blade, used for cutting slices from a loaf of bread
- breadstick — bread baked in a long thin crisp stick
- break down — If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
- break wind — to emit wind from the anus
- breakdance — to perform break dancing.
- bridgetalk — (language) A visual language.
- buck naked — Someone who is buck naked is not wearing any clothes at all.
- bundesbank — the central bank of Germany
- butt-naked — completely naked
- cabin deck — the deck above the weather deck in the bridge house of a ship.
- cackhanded — left-handed
- cake stand — a plate on a pedestal used for displaying cakes in a shop or café, or for special cakes such as wedding cakes
- candlewick — unbleached cotton or muslin into which loops of yarn are hooked and then cut to give a tufted pattern. It is used for bedspreads, dressing gowns, etc
- cankeredly — spitefully or crabbedly
- casevacked — Simple past tense and past participle of casevac.
- check card — debit card.
- checkmated — (chess) Having a king in check with no possible move to escape check, thus losing the game.
- chickadees — Plural form of chickadee.
- clarksdale — a city in NW Mississippi.
- cloud peak — a mountain in N central Wyoming: highest peak in the Bighorn Mountains. 13,175 feet (4018 meters).
- cocked hat — A cocked hat is a hat with three corners that used to be worn with some uniforms.
- codetalker — A military communications specialist using codes based on an obscure language.
- codewalker — (programming, tool) A program component that analyses other programs. Compilers have codewalkers in their front ends; so do cross-reference generators and some database front ends. Other utility programs that try to do too much with source code may turn into codewalkers. As in "This new 'vgrind' feature would require a codewalker to implement."
- cracked up — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- crackheads — Plural form of crackhead.
- cradlewalk — a garden walkway covered by arched trees
- cranked up — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crude tank — A crude tank is a large vessel for crude oil.
- daggerlike — resembling a dagger in shape or form
- damnyankee — (in the southern U.S.) a person native to the northern states of the U.S., especially one who is disliked or regarded with suspicion.
- dark horse — If you describe someone as a dark horse, you mean that people know very little about them, although they may have recently had success or may be about to have success.
- dark money — money donated to politically active nonprofit organizations or anonymous corporate entities, which spend this money to influence political campaigns or other special interests but are not required to reveal their donors.
- dark slide — Also called draw slide. a black plastic, metal, or fabric sheet that is inserted into a film holder to protect the film from light.
- dark-field — of or relating to the illumination of an object by which it is seen, through a microscope, as bright against a dark background.
- darknesses — Plural form of darknesse.
- day ticket — a ticket that is valid for one day
- dead stock — farm equipment
- dead-stick — designating a landing made by an aircraft or spacecraft without using power
- deadlocked — If a dispute or series of negotiations is deadlocked, no agreement can be reached because neither side will give in at all. You can also say that the people involved are deadlocked.
- deal-maker — A deal-maker is someone in business or politics who makes deals.
- dealmakers — Plural form of dealmaker.
- dealmaking — The making of commercial, financial or political deals.
- death mask — A death mask is a model of someone's face, which is made from a mould that was taken of their face soon after they died.
- deck cabin — a cabin on the deck of a boat from which the vessel is steered
- deck cargo — cargo that is carried on the deck of a ship