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10-letter words containing d, e, c, o, k

  • feedstocks — Plural form of feedstock.
  • folk dance — a dance that originated among, and has been transmitted through, the common people. Compare court dance.
  • gobsmacked — utterly astounded; astonished.
  • gridlocked — Simple past tense and past participle of gridlock.
  • hacked off — (jargon)   (Analogous to "pissed off") Said of system administrators who have become annoyed, upset, or touchy owing to suspicions that their sites have been or are going to be victimised by crackers, or used for inappropriate, technically illegal, or even overtly criminal activities. For example, having unreadable files in your home directory called "worm", "lockpick", or "goroot" would probably be an effective (as well as impressively obvious and stupid) way to get your sysadmin hacked off at you.
  • halfcocked — Simple past tense and past participle of halfcock.
  • headstocks — Plural form of headstock.
  • hog-backed — cambered, as the ridge of a roof, a hill, etc.
  • house dick — house detective.
  • inner dock — a part of dock or pier which is further inland
  • jackbooted — wearing jackboots.
  • kitchendom — the domain of the kitchen
  • knackebrod — flat, thin, brittle unleavened rye bread.
  • knocked up — 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.
  • landlocked — shut in completely, or almost completely, by land: a landlocked bay.
  • lead block — any block that alters the direction of a rope; fairlead.
  • lockshield — (attributive) A kind of radiator valve used to balance the system by restricting the flow of water on the return side.
  • low-necked — (of a dress or other garment) cut low so as to leave the neck and shoulders exposed; décolleté.
  • lower deck — the lowermost deck in a hull having two or three decks.
  • mossbacked — Very conservative or reactionary, with old-fashioned views.
  • mower deck — cutter deck.
  • orchidlike — Resembling an orchid or some aspect of one.
  • overcooked — Simple past tense and past participle of overcook.
  • packed out — If a place is packed out, it is very full of people.
  • peckerwood — Midland and Southern U.S. woodpecker.
  • 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.
  • pound cake — a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.
  • 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.
  • racked out — a framework of bars, wires, or pegs on which articles are arranged or deposited: a clothes rack; a luggage rack.
  • rock-faced — (of a person) having a stiff, expressionless face.
  • scene dock — dock1 (def 7).
  • stock code — an abbreviation that identifies a particular security on a stock-quotation machine
  • stock dove — a cosmopolitan wild pigeon, Columba oenas, of Europe.
  • stockinged — a close-fitting covering for the foot and part of the leg, usually knitted, of wool, cotton, nylon, silk, or similar material.
  • stockrider — a cowboy.
  • ticked off — a slight, sharp, recurring click, tap, or beat, as of a clock.
  • unbeckoned — a nod, gesture, etc., that signals, directs, summons, indicates agreement, or the like.
  • understock — to provide an insufficient quantity, as of merchandise, supplies, or livestock.
  • unreckoned — not reckoned, noted, identified, or enumerated
  • wacked-out — whacked-out.
  • woodpecker — any of numerous climbing birds of the family Picidae, having a hard, chisellike bill that it hammers repeatedly into wood in search of insects, stiff tail feathers to assist in climbing, and usually more or less boldly patterned plumage.
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