10-letter words containing h, o, k
- chickenpox — Chickenpox is a disease which gives you a high temperature and red spots that itch.
- child lock — a lock, such as one on a door or window, designed to keep children safe
- chock-full — Something that is chock-full is completely full.
- chockstone — a stone securely jammed in a crack. It may vary in size from a pebble to a large boulder
- choke back — If you choke back tears or a strong emotion, you force yourself not to show your emotion.
- choke coil — an inductor used to limit or suppress alternating current without stopping direct current
- choke down — to swallow with difficulty
- choke-full — chock-full.
- choke-hold — a restraining hold in which one person encircles the neck of another in a viselike grip with the arm, usually approaching from behind: The suspect was put in a chokehold and was gasping for breath.
- chokeberry — any of various North American rosaceous shrubs of the genus Aronia
- chokeholds — Plural form of chokehold.
- chokepoint — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
- chop block — butcher-block.
- chopsticks — a pair of small sticks of wood or ivory, held together in one hand and used in some Asian countries as utensils, as to lift food to the mouth
- chowkidars — Plural form of chowkidar.
- chroma key — an electronic special-effects system for combining a desired background with live foreground action.
- chubb lock — a type of lock with a device that sets the bolt immovably if the lock is picked
- chuckholes — Plural form of chuckhole.
- chuckwagon — A wagon equipped with food and cooking utensils, as on a ranch or in a lumber camp.
- clock-hour — a full 60-minute period, as of class instruction or therapeutic consultation. Compare hour (def 11).
- cloth-like — resembling cloth
- coach park — an area reserved for parking coaches
- coachmaker — A coachbuilder.
- coat check — The coat check at a public building such as a theater or club is the place where customers can leave their coats, usually for a small fee.
- cockchafer — any of various Old World scarabaeid beetles, esp Melolontha melolontha of Europe, whose larvae feed on crops and grasses
- cocked hat — A cocked hat is a hat with three corners that used to be worn with some uniforms.
- cockfights — Plural form of cockfight.
- cockhorses — Plural form of cockhorse.
- cook-chill — a method of food preparation used by caterers, in which cooked dishes are chilled rapidly and reheated as required
- corn shock — a stack or bundle of bound or unbound corn piled upright for curing or drying
- corn shuck — the husk of an ear of maize
- cornhusker — a person or machine that strips cornhusks from ears of maize
- crackhouse — a place where cocaine in the form of crack is bought, sold, and smoked.
- 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.
- deckhouses — Plural form of deckhouse.
- dobzhansky — Theodosius (Grigorievich) [gri-gawr-ee-uh-vich,, -gohr-] /grɪˈgɔr i ə vɪtʃ,, -ˈgoʊr-/ (Show IPA), 1900–75, U.S. geneticist, born in Russia.
- dock house — traditionally a building situated at the dock where a harbourmaster works and resides
- doohickeys — Plural form of doohickey.
- door check — a device, usually hydraulic or pneumatic, for controlling the closing of a door and preventing it from slamming.
- dough hook — an attachment for a food processor or electric mixer, for kneading dough.
- dough-hook — an attachment for an electric mixer that kneads dough
- doukhobors — Dukhobors
- drunkathon — a session in which excessive quantities of alcohol are consumed
- duck-shove — to evade responsibility (for)
- duckshover — one who duckshoves, jumps a queue; cheats
- earthworks — Plural form of earthwork.
- echo check — a quality check and error-control technique for data transferred over a computer network or other communications link, in which the data received is stored and also transmitted back to its point of origin, where it is compared with the original data.
- fisherfolk — People who catch fish for a living.
- flash-lock — stanch1 (def 5).