10-letter words containing k, h
- deck chair — A deck chair is a simple chair with a folding frame, and a piece of canvas as the seat and back. Deck chairs are usually used on the beach, on a ship, or in the yard.
- deck light — a skylight for a 'tween deck, built flush with the upper deck.
- deck watch — (on a ship) a precision watch used on deck for navigational purposes to avoid disturbing the chronometer.
- deckchairs — Plural form of deckchair.
- deckhouses — Plural form of deckhouse.
- desk check — (programming) To grovel over hardcopy of source code, mentally simulating the control flow; a method of catching bugs. No longer common practice in this age of on-screen editing, fast compiles, and sophisticated debuggers - though some maintain stoutly that it ought to be. Compare dry run, eyeball search, vdiff, vgrep.
- dick-heads — dick (def 3).
- disk crash — the failure of a disk storage system, usually resulting from the read-write head touching the moving disk surface and causing mechanical damage
- disk wheel — a spokeless vehicular wheel, especially on automobiles, having a heavy circular pressed-steel disk mounted on the wheel hub and supporting the tire rim on its outer edge.
- 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
- dzerzhinsk — a city in the central Russian Federation in Europe, W of Nizhni Novgorod.
- eagle-hawk — a large aggressive Australian eagle, Aquila audax
- earthquake — something that is severely disruptive; upheaval.
- 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.
- ekphrastic — Pertaining to ekphrasis; clear, lucid.
- enkephalin — Either of two compounds that occur naturally in the brain. They are peptides related to the endorphins, with similar physiological effects.
- fact-check — to confirm the truth of (an assertion made in speech or writing), often as part of the research or editorial process.
- fair shake — an equitable opportunity or treatment: The judges promised that every entrant in the contest would get a fair shake.
- falkenhayn — Erich von [ey-rikh fuh n] /ˈeɪ rɪx fən/ (Show IPA), 1861–1922, German general of World War I.
- fatherlike — Having the qualities of a father.
- fight back — retaliate
- fish flake — a platform for drying fish.
- fish knife — a small knife with a spatulalike blade, used with a fork in cutting fish at table.
- fish stick — an oblong piece of fried fish, usually breaded.
- fisherfolk — People who catch fish for a living.
- flash back — If your mind flashes back to something in the past, you remember it or think of it briefly or suddenly.
- flash-lock — stanch1 (def 5).
- flashbacks — Plural form of flashback.
- flat thunk — (programming) A software mechanism that allows a Win32 application to load and call a 16-bit DLL, or a 16-bit application to load and call a Win32 DLL. See also generic thunk, universal thunk.
- flunkeyish — resembling a flunkey
- folklorish — (colloquial) Typical or similar to folklore.
- fore-check — to obstruct or impede the movement or progress of an attacking opponent in the opponent's own defensive zone. Compare back-check, check1 (def 15).
- foreshanks — Plural form of foreshank.
- foreshocks — Plural form of foreshock.
- freak show — a display of people or animals with unusual or grotesque physical features, as at a circus or carnival sideshow.
- freakishly — queer; odd; unusual; grotesque: a freakish appearance.
- french kid — kidskin tanned by an alum or vegetable process and finished in a manner originally employed by the French.
- frithsoken — (from Old English) a refuge; a sanctuary
- glen check — Glen plaid.
- gorge hook — a fishhook with two barbed prongs; a hook made by fastening two hooks back to back at the shanks.