10-letter words containing d, o, r, k
- dog-walker — a person who walks other people's dogs, especially for a fee.
- donkeywork — Informal. tedious, repetitious work; drudgery.
- donnybrook — an inordinately wild fight or contentious dispute; brawl; free-for-all.
- door check — a device, usually hydraulic or pneumatic, for controlling the closing of a door and preventing it from slamming.
- doorkeeper — a person who guards the entrance of a building.
- dory skiff — an open boat similar to but smaller than a dory.
- doukhobors — Dukhobors
- down quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 0.005 to 0.015 GeV/c2, a negative charge that is 1⁄3 the charge of an electron, zero charm, and zero strangeness
- downmarket — Toward or relating to the cheaper or less prestigious sector of the market.
- downstroke — a downward stroke, as of a machine part, piston, or the like.
- dragonlike — a mythical monster generally represented as a huge, winged reptile with crested head and enormous claws and teeth, and often spouting fire.
- dragonskin — The skin of a dragon, or leather made from it.
- drake foot — a pad foot having the form of three connected lobes.
- drakestone — a flat stone thrown across the surface of water so as to make it skim or skip before sinking
- draw poker — a variety of poker in which a player is dealt five cards and, after an initial bet, may discard usually up to three of these cards and receive replacements from the dealer.
- drawn work — ornamental work done by drawing threads from a fabric, the remaining portions usually being formed into lacelike patterns by needlework.
- dreadlocks — a hair style, especially among Rastafarians, in which the hair is worn in long, ropelike locks.
- dream book — a book, pamphlet, etc., that lists common dreams and purports to interpret them, especially in regard to their meaning for the future.
- 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.
- drudgework — work that is menial and tedious and therefore distasteful; drudgery.
- drunkathon — a session in which excessive quantities of alcohol are consumed
- 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
- field work — Also, field work. work done in the field, as research, exploration, surveying, or interviewing: archaeological fieldwork.
- fieldworks — Plural form of fieldwork.
- flakeboard — a form of particle board.
- floodmarks — Plural form of floodmark.
- food truck — a truck or van from which food is sold, as to people on the street.
- forklifted — Simple past tense and past participle of forklift.
- front desk — a desk at which a receptionist works, as in an office.
- gadzookery — the use or overuse of period-specific or archaic expressions, as in a historical novel: Without any gadzookery and its excessive use of “forsooth,” “prithee,” etc., her first historical novel conveys a superb sense of the period.
- gold brick — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
- grade book — a book in which a student's grades are recorded
- gridlocked — Simple past tense and past participle of gridlock.
- grimlooked — having a grim appearance
- grind rock — whetstone.
- groundwork — foundation or basis: He laid the groundwork for an international conference.
- hack board — Falconry. a board or platform at which hawks being flown at hack are fed.
- handstroke — the downward movement of the bell rope as the bell swings around allowing the ringer to grasp and pull it
- hard-knock — beset with hardship.
- hoodwinker — One who hoodwinks.
- hooked rug — a rug made by drawing loops of yarn or cloth through a foundation of burlap or the like, to form a pattern.
- hooktender — (in lumbering) the supervisor of a rigging crew.
- hunky-dory — about as well as one could wish or expect; satisfactory; fine; OK.
- hydrocrack — to crack (petroleum or the like) in the presence of hydrogen.
- inner dock — a part of dock or pier which is further inland