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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
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