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10-letter words containing k, o, r

  • foreshocks — Plural form of foreshock.
  • forestlike — Like a forest.
  • forklifted — Simple past tense and past participle of forklift.
  • frameworks — Plural form of framework.
  • freak show — a display of people or animals with unusual or grotesque physical features, as at a circus or carnival sideshow.
  • frithsoken — (from Old English) a refuge; a sanctuary
  • frock coat — a man's close-fitting, knee-length coat, single-breasted or double-breasted and with a vent in the back.
  • frock tart — a person who makes or designs costumes for films or television
  • frolicking — merry play; merriment; gaiety; fun.
  • front desk — a desk at which a receptionist works, as in an office.
  • front-rank — among the best or most important; foremost; topnotch.
  • gadzookery — the use or overuse of period-specific or archaic expressions, as in a historical novel: Without any gadzookery and its excessive use of “forsooth,” “prithee,” etc., her first historical novel conveys a superb sense of the period.
  • gas cooker — cooking stove that runs on gas
  • gas worker — a gas engineer
  • glassworks — a factory where glass is made.
  • glovemaker — A maker of gloves; a glover.
  • go berserk — If someone or something goes berserk, they lose control of themselves and become very angry or violent.
  • go-karting — racing in small vehicle
  • goalkeeper — (in ice hockey, field hockey, lacrosse, soccer, etc.) a player whose chief duty is to prevent the ball or puck from crossing or entering the goal.
  • goalkicker — a person who makes a goal kick
  • goatsucker — nightjar (def 2).
  • gold brick — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
  • gonkulator — /gon'kyoo-lay-tr/ (From "Hogan's Heroes", the TV series) A pretentious piece of equipment that actually serves no useful purpose. Usually used to describe one's least favourite piece of computer hardware. See gonk.
  • gorge hook — a fishhook with two barbed prongs; a hook made by fastening two hooks back to back at the shanks.
  • grade book — a book in which a student's grades are recorded
  • greek love — anal intercourse.
  • green book — 1. Informal name for one of the four standard references on PostScript. The other three official guides are known as the Blue Book, the Red Book, and the White Book. 2.   (publication)   Informal name for one of the three standard references on SmallTalk. Also associated with blue and red books. 3. The "X/Open Compatibility Guide", which defines an international standard Unix environment that is a proper superset of POSIX/SVID. It also includes descriptions of a standard utility toolkit, systems administrations features, and the like. This grimoire is taken with particular seriousness in Europe. See Purple Book. 4. The IEEE 1003.1 POSIX Operating Systems Interface standard has been dubbed "The Ugly Green Book". 5. Any of the 1992 standards issued by the ITU-T's tenth plenary assembly. These include, among other things, the dreadful X.400 electronic mail standard and the Group 1 through 4 fax standards. 6. Green Book CD-ROM. See also book titles.
  • gridlocked — Simple past tense and past participle of gridlock.
  • grillework — Alternative spelling of grillwork.
  • grimlooked — having a grim appearance
  • grind rock — whetstone.
  • grottolike — Having the appearance of a grotto.
  • groundwork — foundation or basis: He laid the groundwork for an international conference.
  • group work — a method, used by professional social workers, of aiding a group or members of a group toward individual adjustment and increased participation in community activity by exploiting the mechanisms of group life.
  • groupthink — the practice of approaching problems or issues as matters that are best dealt with by consensus of a group rather than by individuals acting independently; conformity.
  • grunt work — work that is repetitious, often physically exhausting, and boring.
  • hack board — Falconry. a board or platform at which hawks being flown at hack are fed.
  • hackamores — Plural form of hackamore.
  • hackerazzo — a person who hacks into the computer or phone of a celebrity in order to gain information about him or her
  • hammerkops — Plural form of hammerkop.
  • hammerlock — a hold in which one arm of an opponent is twisted and forced upward behind his back.
  • handstroke — the downward movement of the bell rope as the bell swings around allowing the ringer to grasp and pull it
  • hard-knock — beset with hardship.
  • heartbroke — heartbroken
  • heatstroke — a disturbance of the temperature-regulating mechanisms of the body caused by overexposure to excessive heat, resulting in fever, hot and dry skin, and rapid pulse, sometimes progressing to delirium and coma.
  • hektograph — to copy with the hectograph.
  • hektoliter — a unit of capacity equal to 100 liters, equivalent to 2.8378 U.S. bushels, or 26.418 U.S. gallons. Abbreviation: hl.
  • hektometer — a unit of length equal to 100 meters, or 328.08 feet. Abbreviation: hm.
  • hektostere — a unit of capacity equal to 100 steres, or 131 cubic yards.
  • hellerwork — a form of deep tissue massage intended to release the build-up of physical and emotional traumas in the body
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