10-letter words containing k, e, y, c
- hackle fly — an artificial fly made with hackles, usually without wings.
- hackneying — Present participle of hackney.
- hackneyman — a man who rents out carriages and horses
- henpeckery — the state of being harassed or tormented through henpecking
- hockey mom — a mother who spends much time driving her children to hockey rinks, watching their games, and encouraging their participation in the sport: Hockey moms are made of tough stuff.
- hystericky — prone to or characterized by hysteria
- ice hockey — a game played on ice between two teams of six skaters each, the object being to score goals by shooting a puck into the opponents' cage using a stick with a wooden blade set at an obtuse angle to the shaft.
- jack benny — Jack (Benjamin Kubelsky) 1894–1974, U.S. comedian.
- jackassery — The foolish or obnoxious behaviour of a jackass.
- jacky howe — (formerly) a sleeveless flannel shirt worn by sheep shearers
- jockey box — a glove compartment, especially in a truck.
- jockey cap — a cap with a long visor, worn by jockeys.
- jockeyship — the art or skill of a jockey
- johnnycake — a cake or bread made of corn meal and water or milk, usually cooked on a griddle.
- keltically — Celt.
- kelyphitic — as in kelyphitic rim, a mineral shell enclosing another mineral in an igneous rock
- kerygmatic — the preaching of the gospel of Christ, especially in the manner of the early church.
- key escrow — (security) A controversial arrangement where the keys needed to decrypt encrypted data must be held in escrow by a third party so that government agencies can obtain them to decrypt messages which they suspect to be relevant to national security.
- keypunched — Simple past tense and past participle of keypunch.
- keypuncher — A keypunch.
- keypunches — Plural form of keypunch.
- kissy-face — affectionate kissing; necking: playing kissy-face.
- lardy cake — a rich sweet cake made of bread dough, lard, sugar, and dried fruit
- layer cake — a cake made in layers, with a cream, jelly, or other filling between them.
- leukocytes — white blood cell.
- leukocytic — Of or pertaining to leukocytes.
- like crazy — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
- lucklessly — In a luckless way.
- myslivecek — Josef [yaw-zef] /ˈyɔ zɛf/ (Show IPA), 1737–81, Czech composer.
- nickeltype — an electrotype with a deposit of nickel.
- patty-cake — pat-a-cake.
- pay packet — Your pay packet is the envelope containing your wages, which your employer gives you at the end of every week.
- peacockery — proud or ostentatious display
- pernickety — persnickety.
- recklessly — utterly unconcerned about the consequences of some action; without caution; careless (usually followed by of): to be reckless of danger.
- rock cycle — Geology. a continuous process by which rocks are created, changed from one form to another, destroyed, and then formed again.
- scythelike — an agricultural implement consisting of a long, curving blade fastened at an angle to a handle, for cutting grass, grain, etc., by hand.
- skyscraper — a relatively tall building of many stories, especially one for office or commercial use.
- sticky end — a single-stranded end of DNA or RNA having a nucleotide base sequence complementary to that of another strand, enabling the two strands to be connected by base pairing: produced in the laboratory with the use of restriction enzymes for genetic engineering purposes.
- stickybeak — a busybody; meddler.
- swaybacked — having the back sagged to an unusual degree; having a sway-back.
- ticket day — (on the London Stock Exchange) the day on which selling brokers receive from buying brokers the names of investors who have made purchases during the previous account
- tipsy cake — a kind of trifle made from a sponge cake soaked with white wine or sherry and decorated with almonds and crystallized fruit
- tracklayer — section hand.
- wackyparse — (Internet, slang) In Kibology, the practice of misreading text to humorous effect (perhaps deliberately), especially in line with traditional absurdist humor.
- wry-necked — afflicted with wryneck.
- yeast cake — a small cake of compacted yeast for baking or the like.
- yellowback — (formerly) an inexpensive, often lurid, novel bound in yellow cloth or paper.
- yellowcake — a processed oxide of uranium, U 3 O 8 , extracted and concentrated from uranium ore: used as the raw material for commercial nuclear materials, especially fuel elements in nuclear reactors.