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10-letter words containing e, s, k

  • diaskeuast — a person who revises, edits, or interpolates
  • dick-heads — dick (def 3).
  • dickcissel — a small North American bird (Spiza americana), the male of which has a yellow breast, a black patch on its throat, and a mainly grey head
  • dickensian — of Charles Dickens or his works
  • dicksucker — (vulgar slang) A person who fellates men.
  • die-sinker — a person who engraves dies for stamping coins, medals, etc
  • dieselpunk — A postmodern genre of art as well as a budding subculture that combines the aesthetics of the interbellum period through World War II and ending circa 1950s (a range of time often referred to as the \u201cdiesel era\u201d by the dieselpunk community) with contemporary creations.
  • diplospeak — the polite and placatory language usually associated with diplomats
  • disc brake — a brake system in which a disc attached to a wheel is slowed by the friction of brake pads being pressed against the disc by a caliper.
  • disembarks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disembark.
  • disfrocked — Simple past tense and past participle of disfrock.
  • disk brake — A disk brake is a brake in which external friction pads press onto a disk, usually by the action of a caliper.
  • disk drive — computing: hardware
  • disk space — a number of bytes on a disk for the storage of data
  • disk wheel — a spokeless vehicular wheel, especially on automobiles, having a heavy circular pressed-steel disk mounted on the wheel hub and supporting the tire rim on its outer edge.
  • disk-drive — a device that, using an access mechanism under program control, enables data to be read from or written on a spinning magnetic disk, magnetic disk pack, floppy disk, or optical disk.
  • dislikable — Not capable or worthy of being liked; not liked; regarded with displeasure or aversion.
  • dislikeful — with dislike
  • distelfink — a stylized bird motif traditional in Pennsylvania German art.
  • do a skase — to skip the country while owing a large amount of money
  • dock house — traditionally a building situated at the dock where a harbourmaster works and resides
  • dockmaster — a person who supervises the dry-docking of ships.
  • dog basket — a basket for a dog to sleep in
  • doodlesack — bagpipe (def 1).
  • doohickeys — Plural form of doohickey.
  • dostoevski — ˈFeodor Miˈkhailovich (ˈfjɔˈdɔʀ mɪ xaɪlɔvɪtʃ) ; fy^ōˈd^ōr mi khīˈl^ōvich) 1821-81; Russ. novelist
  • dostoevsky — Fyodor Mikhailovich [fyoh-der mi-kahy-luh-vich;; Russian fyaw-duh r myi-khahy-luh-vyich] /ˈfyoʊ dər mɪˈkaɪ lə vɪtʃ;; Russian ˈfyɔ dər myɪˈxaɪ lə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1821–81, Russian novelist.
  • downstroke — a downward stroke, as of a machine part, piston, or the like.
  • drakestone — a flat stone thrown across the surface of water so as to make it skim or skip before sinking
  • drawknives — Plural form of drawknife.
  • dreadlocks — a hair style, especially among Rastafarians, in which the hair is worn in long, ropelike locks.
  • dressmaker — a person whose occupation is the making or alteration of women's dresses, coats, etc.
  • dry socket — a painful inflammatory infection of the bone and tissues at the site of an extracted tooth.
  • duck press — a cooked duck sprinkled with red wine and then pressed in a device (duck press) so that the juices can be collected and served as a sauce over the breast meat and legs.
  • duck-shove — to evade responsibility (for)
  • duckshover — one who duckshoves, jumps a queue; cheats
  • dustjacket — Alternative form of dust jacket.
  • dusty deck — Old software (especially applications) which one is obliged to remain compatible with, or to maintain. DP types call this "legacy code", a term hackers consider smarmy and excessively reverent. The term implies that the software in question is a holdover from card-punch days. Used especially when referring to old scientific and number crunching software, much of which was written in Fortran and very poorly documented but is believed to be too expensive to replace. See fossil; compare crawling horror.
  • dyskinesia — difficulty or abnormality in performing voluntary muscular movements.
  • dyskinesis — A reduced ability to control and coordinate movement.
  • dyskinetic — difficulty or abnormality in performing voluntary muscular movements.
  • dzerzhinsk — a city in the central Russian Federation in Europe, W of Nizhni Novgorod.
  • earthworks — Plural form of earthwork.
  • ekphrastic — Pertaining to ekphrasis; clear, lucid.
  • escape key — a key on a computer keyboard used to leave a computer-program sequence before its end, in order to commence another sequence
  • eskilstuna — an industrial city in SE Sweden. Pop: 91 137 (2004 est)
  • eskimo dog — a large powerful breed of sled dog with a long thick coat and curled tail
  • eukaryotes — Plural form of eukaryote.
  • eye socket — Your eye sockets are the two hollow parts on either side of your face, where your eyeballs are.
  • fair shake — an equitable opportunity or treatment: The judges promised that every entrant in the contest would get a fair shake.
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