10-letter words containing e, r, k, s
- brockhouse — Bertram Neville, 1918–2003, Canadian physicist: Nobel Prize 1994.
- brokenness — the quality of being broken
- brokership — an agent who buys or sells for a principal on a commission basis without having title to the property.
- buckpasser — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
- bushwalker — a person who hikes through bushland
- canebrakes — Plural form of canebrake.
- caretakers — Plural form of caretaker.
- carjackers — Plural form of carjacker.
- carpsucker — any of several freshwater suckers of the genus Carpiodes, as the quillback and the river carpsucker.
- casekeeper — the person who records in the casebox a tally of cards as they appear in the box.
- caseworker — A caseworker is someone who does casework.
- caste mark — a mark on the skin that shows which caste a Hindu belongs to, esp a dot painted on the forehead
- catskinner — an operator of a vehicle or machine with caterpillar treads.
- catwhisker — a sharply pointed, flexible wire used to make contact with a specific point on a semiconductor or a crystal detector
- cheboksary — a port in W central Russia on the River Volga: capital of the Chuvash Republic. Pop: 446 000 (2005 est)
- checkrooms — Plural form of checkroom.
- chickarees — Plural form of chickaree.
- christlike — resembling or showing the spirit of Jesus Christ
- chubsucker — any of several stout suckers of the genus Erimyzon, inhabiting sluggish streams, backwaters, and lakes of the central and eastern U.S.
- clarksdale — a city in NW Mississippi.
- close work — work that involves focusing your eyes on a nearby object, such as a book or computer screen, for a prolonged period of time
- cockhorses — Plural form of cockhorse.
- cockleburs — Plural form of cocklebur.
- cocksucker — a person regarded as despicable, disgusting, etc.
- cocksurely — In a cocksure manner.
- cockteaser — a girl or woman who purposely excites or arouses a male sexually but then refuses to have intercourse.
- comstocker — a person who practises comstockery
- copperskin — a Native American
- corkscrews — Plural form of corkscrew.
- corkscrewy — Resembling the worm of a corkscrew in shape.
- corn snake — a large, harmless rat snake, Elaphe guttata guttata, of the southeastern U.S., having yellow, tan, or gray scales with dark-red blotches: once common in cornfields but now an endangered species.
- corncrakes — Plural form of corncrake.
- cornflakes — a breakfast cereal made from toasted maize, eaten with milk, sugar, etc
- cornhusker — a person or machine that strips cornhusks from ears of maize
- corpselike — Resembling a corpse.
- coursebook — a book studied on an educational course
- coursework — written or oral work completed by a student within a given period, which is assessed as an integral part of an educational course
- crack wise — to joke or gibe
- crackheads — Plural form of crackhead.
- crackhouse — a place where cocaine in the form of crack is bought, sold, and smoked.
- crankcases — Plural form of crankcase.
- crankiness — ill-tempered; grouchy; cross: I'm always cranky when I don't get enough sleep.
- creakiness — The state of being creaky.
- cricketers — Plural form of cricketer.
- crookedest — Superlative form of crooked.
- crookesite — a rare mineral, selenide of copper, thallium, and silver, (Cu, Tl, Ag) 2 Se, occurring in steel-gray, compact masses.
- crooknecks — Plural form of crookneck.
- crosscheck — to verify (a fact, report, etc) by considering conflicting opinions or consulting other sources
- 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 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.