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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).
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