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10-letter words containing k, a, o

  • skateboard — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
  • smack down — to humble or reprimand (someone who is overstepping bounds)
  • smokeboard — a board situated above a fireplace to prevent the emission of smoke into a room
  • smokestack — Also called stack. a pipe for the escape of the smoke or gases of combustion, as on a steamboat, locomotive, or building.
  • snake foot — an elongated foot or short leg, as to a pedestal table, having the form of an ogee tangent to the floor surface.
  • snakemouth — rose pogonia.
  • snakestone — a piece of porous material popularly supposed to neutralize the toxic effect of a snakebite.
  • snowmaking — the creation of artificial snow at ski areas.
  • soapflakes — small particles of solid soap or detergent used for washing clothes
  • soil stack — a vertical soil pipe.
  • soundalike — a person or thing that sounds like another, especially a better known or more famous prototype: a whole spate of Elvis Presley soundalikes.
  • soundtrack — the narrow band on one or both sides of a motion-picture film on which sound is recorded.
  • spark coil — a coil of many turns of insulated wire on an iron core, used for producing sparks.
  • spatchcock — a fowl that has been dressed and split open for grilling.
  • spoil bank — a bank of excavated refuse or waste earth, as of shale from surface coal mining.
  • spokeshave — a cutting tool having a blade set between two handles, originally for shaping spokes, but now in general use for dressing curved edges of wood and forming round bars and shapes.
  • spongecake — sweet cake of eggs and flour
  • spoon back — a back of a chair or the like, having a splat curved outward at the bottom.
  • squawk box — the speaker of a public-address system or an intercom system; loudspeaker.
  • stake boat — an anchored boat to which barges or other boats are temporarily moored.
  • stake body — an open truck body having a platform with sockets at the edge into which upright stakes may be placed to form a fence around a load.
  • steakhouse — a restaurant specializing in beefsteak.
  • stock farm — a farm devoted to breeding livestock.
  • stonebreak — any of a variety of plants in the genus Saxifraga
  • stop plank — a board or boarding that is placed along the top of a dam to increase its height and capacity
  • strap work — a type of ornamentation imitating pierced and interlaced straps or bands, usually forming a geometric pattern.
  • stroke oar — the oar nearest to the stern of the boat.
  • strongbark — any of the several tropical American shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Bourreria, of the borage family, especially B. ovata, of southern Florida and the West Indies, having elliptic leaves and fragrant, white flowers.
  • swatchbook — a booklet containing samples (of paper, cloth, etc)
  • sweat sock — one of a pair of socks made of thick, absorbent cotton, wool, or other material and worn during exercise, sports, leisure activity, etc.
  • szymborska — Wislawa [vis-lah-vah] /vɪsˈlɑ vɑ/ (Show IPA), 1923–2012, Polish poet: Nobel prize 1996.
  • take a bow — to bend the knee or body or incline the head, as in reverence, submission, salutation, recognition, or acknowledgment.
  • take cover — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
  • take notes — to write down notes, as during a lecture or interview, for later reference
  • take stock — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
  • take up on — If you take someone up on their offer or invitation, you accept it.
  • take-along — intended or suitable for taking along, as on a trip: take-along snacks for long car trips.
  • talk about — expressing disgust or emphasis
  • talk radio — a radio format featuring talk shows and listener call-ins.
  • talk round — If you talk someone round, you persuade them to change their mind so that they agree with you, or agree to do what you want them to do
  • talked out — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
  • talking of — You can use the expression talking of to introduce a new topic that you want to discuss, and to link it to something that has already been mentioned.
  • talking-to — a scolding.
  • tank wagon — a form of railway wagon carrying a tank for the transport of liquids
  • tarkington — (Newton) Booth, 1869–1946, U.S. novelist and playwright.
  • task force — Navy, Military. a temporary grouping of units under one commander, formed for the purpose of carrying out a specific operation or mission.
  • tchoukball — a non-contact, team-orientated, ballgame developed by the Swiss biologist Dr H. Brandt, the object of the game is to throw the ball at a frame mounted with a springy surface so that it rebounds without being caught by the defending team
  • tena korua — a Māori greeting to two people
  • tereshkova — Valentina Vladimirovna [vuh-lyin-tyee-nuh vluh-dyi-myee-ruh v-nuh] /və lyɪnˈtyi nə vlə dyɪˈmyi rəv nə/ (Show IPA), born 1937, Soviet cosmonaut: first woman in space 1963.
  • throw back — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
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