10-letter words containing e, r, k, s
- nitpickers — Plural form of nitpicker.
- noisemaker — a person or thing that makes noise, as a reveler on New Year's Eve, Halloween, etc., or a rattle, horn, or similar device used on such an occasion.
- non-smoker — a person who does not smoke.
- nonsmokers — Plural form of nonsmoker.
- nonspeaker — a person who does not or cannot speak
- nonstriker — One who is not participating in an industrial strike.
- oak forest — a town in NE Illinois.
- oddsmakers — Plural form of oddsmaker.
- outsparkle — to sparkle more brilliantly than
- overstrike — to stamp a new device, value, or inscription on (a coin).
- overstruck — to stamp a new device, value, or inscription on (a coin).
- pack-horse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
- paderewski — Ignace [French ee-nyas] /French iˈnyas/ (Show IPA), or Ignacy Jan [Polish ig-nah-tsi yahn] /Polish ɪgˈnɑ tsɪ yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1860–1941, Polish pianist, composer, patriot, and statesman.
- painstaker — a painstaking person
- parkleaves — a species of St John's wort
- peak hours — prime time, busiest period
- perovskite — a naturally occurring titanate of calcium, CaTiO 3 , found as yellow, brown, or black cubic crystals, usually in metamorphic rocks.
- picnickers — an excursion or outing in which the participants carry food with them and share a meal in the open air.
- pigsticker — to hunt for wild boar, usually on horseback and using a spear.
- pink stern — a sharp stern having a narrow, overhanging, raking transom.
- pokerishly — in a pokerish manner
- postmarked — an official mark stamped on letters and other mail, serving as a cancellation of the postage stamp and indicating the place, date, and sometimes time of sending or receipt.
- poststrike — of or relating to the period after a (workers) strike
- potsticker — a pan-fried and steamed Chinese dumpling with a ground meat or vegetable filling.
- press pack — a dismissive term for a group of journalists, viewed as hounding a person
- press-back — a wooden chair back having a design pressed, rather than carved, into its crossrails.
- proskomide — prothesis (def 2a).
- quirkiness — having or full of quirks.
- racetracks — Plural form of racetrack.
- rackabones — 'a rack of bones', a metaphor for a person or animal that is very thin or emaciated
- ramshackle — dilapidated, run down
- rank scale — (in systemic linguistics) a hierarchical ordering of grammatical units such that a unit of a given rank normally consists of units of the next lower rank, as, in English, the ordering sentence, clause, group or phrase, word, morpheme.
- ranshackle — to ransack
- ratskeller — the cellar of a town hall, esp one used as a beer hall or restaurant
- recklessly — utterly unconcerned about the consequences of some action; without caution; careless (usually followed by of): to be reckless of danger.
- red shanks — herb Robert.
- red siskin — a South American finch (Carduelis cucullata) with a black head and red body, sometimes kept as a cage bird
- reichsbank — the former German national bank.
- reichsmark — the monetary unit of Germany from November, 1924, until 1948. Compare Deutsche mark, mark2 (def 1), ostmark.
- rickettsia — any member of the genus Rickettsia, comprising rod-shaped to coccoid microorganisms that resemble bacteria but can be as small as a large virus and reproduce only inside a living cell, parasitic in fleas, ticks, lice, and mites and transmitted by bite to vertebrate hosts, including humans, causing such severe diseases as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
- ring snake — grass snake (def 1).
- rock cress — any of several low growing plants belonging to the genus Arabis, of the mustard family, having spikes or one-sided clusters of white, pink, or purple flowers, grown as an ornamental in rock gardens.
- rock snake — any large Australasian python of the genus Liasis
- rump steak — Rump or rump steak is meat cut from the rear end of a cow.
- rustbucket — an old, run-down freighter, especially one whose hull is covered with rust.
- sack dress — a loose, unbelted dress that hangs straight from the shoulder to the hemline.
- sail maker — someone whose occupation is to make and repair sails for boats
- sailorlike — resembling a sailor
- salesclerk — a person who sells goods in a store.
- saltshaker — table-salt dispenser