10-letter words containing k, a, p, s
- rump steak — Rump or rump steak is meat cut from the rear end of a cow.
- scalp lock — a long lock or tuft of hair left on the shorn scalp by some North American Indian men.
- schafskopf — sheepshead (def 4).
- seakeeping — the ability of a vessel to endure rough conditions at sea and navigate safely during long storms.
- shankpiece — a piece of metal or fiber for giving form to the shank of a shoe.
- sheepshank — a kind of knot, hitch, or bend made on a rope to shorten it temporarily.
- sheeptrack — a small natural terrace on a hillside
- shopwalker — a floorwalker.
- shrinkpack — flexible plastic used for shrink-wrapping goods
- silk paper — paper that contains silk fibers and is sometimes used for printing postage stamps and revenue stamps.
- skate park — area for skateboarding
- sketch map — a rough map of the principal features of a locale, as one drawn from memory.
- skin patch — an adhesive patch stuck to the skin to slowly and steadily release medicine into the bloodstream
- skyscraper — a relatively tall building of many stories, especially one for office or commercial use.
- soapflakes — small particles of solid soap or detergent used for washing clothes
- space junk — objects such as artificial satellites, material discarded from space stations, etc that remain in space after use
- space mark — a proofreader's symbol used to indicate the need to insert space, as between two typed or printed words that have been run together. Symbol: #.
- space walk — When an astronaut goes on a space walk, he or she leaves the spacecraft and works outside it while floating in space.
- spankingly — in a spanking manner
- spark coil — a coil of many turns of insulated wire on an iron core, used for producing sparks.
- spark plug — a device designed to fit in each cylinder of a gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine and to produce the electric spark for igniting the mixture of gasoline and air.
- sparkishly — in a sparkish manner
- sparkliest — tending to sparkle; animated; lively: a row of sparkly cheerleaders.
- sparks fly — If sparks fly between people, they discuss something in an excited or angry way.
- spatchcock — a fowl that has been dressed and split open for grilling.
- speak-easy — a place where alcoholic drinks are sold illegally, esp. such a place in the U.S. during Prohibition
- speakerine — a female television or radio announcer
- speakingly — in an eloquent manner
- specmark89 — (benchmark) An old SPECmark benchmark result derived from a set of floating-point and integer benchmarks. It is the geometric mean of ten SPEC ratios of the outdated 1989 SPEC benchmark suite. The use of SPECmark89 is strongly discouraged, having been superseded by CINT92 and CFP92.
- speedfreak — an addict or habitual user of amphetamines, methamphetamines, or similar stimulating drugs.
- speedwalks — power walking.
- sperm bank — a repository for storing sperm and keeping it viable under scientifically controlled conditions prior to its use in artificial insemination.
- splashback — a sheet of glass, plastic, etc, attached to a wall above a basin to protect the wall against splashing
- 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.
- spray tank — a closed tank into which air is pumped to force out a liquid, especially for a spray.
- spur track — a short branch track leading from the main track, and connected with it at one end only.
- steam-punk — a subgenre of science fiction and fantasy featuring advanced machines and other technology based on steam power of the 19th century and taking place in a recognizable historical period or a fantasy world.
- still pack — the pack not in play in a game in which two packs are used alternately.
- 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.
- strike pay — strike benefit.
- superflack — an extremely competent, successful press agent
- supplejack — a strong, pliant cane or walking stick.
- swamp pink — a bog plant, Helonias bullata, of the lily family, native to the eastern U.S., having a dense spike of small, fragrant pink flowers.
- sweepstake — a sweepstakes.
- take shape — the quality of a distinct object or body in having an external surface or outline of specific form or figure.
- take steps — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.