10-letter words containing k, r, t
- handstroke — the downward movement of the bell rope as the bell swings around allowing the ringer to grasp and pull it
- heart back — a chair back having a form resembling that of a somewhat heart-shaped medieval shield.
- heartbreak — great sorrow, grief, or anguish.
- heartbroke — heartbroken
- heatseeker — A heat-seeking missile.
- 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.
- hermitlike — Resembling or characteristic of a hermit.
- herskowitz — Melville (Jean) 1895–1963, American anthropologist.
- heterokont — any organism that possesses two flagella of unequal length. Heterokonts include diatoms and some other algae
- hitchhiker — to travel by standing on the side of the road and soliciting rides from passing vehicles.
- hooktender — (in lumbering) the supervisor of a rigging crew.
- hoop skirt — a woman's skirt made to stand out and drape in a stiff bell-like shape from the waist by an undergarment framework of flexible hoops connected by tapes.
- hoop-skirt — a skirt that has hoops made of bone or metal, etc fastened inside it to make it stiff and full
- hot-walker — a person whose job is walking racehorses after races, workouts, etc. to allow them to cool off gradually
- hotel rack — rack6 (def 2).
- hotel work — any of various jobs required in a hotel, such as receptionists, waiters, etc
- huckstered — Simple past tense and past participle of huckster.
- hucksterer — huckster.
- huckstress — A female huckster.
- hula skirt — a skirt made of long stems of grass bound to a waistband, worn typically by a Hawaiian hula dancer.
- hystericky — prone to or characterized by hysteria
- ice skater — An ice skater is someone who skates on ice.
- interlaken — a town in central Switzerland between the lakes of Brienz and Thun: tourist center.
- interlinks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interlink.
- interlocks — Plural form of interlock.
- intershock — To shock mutually, as if by collision.
- interstock — a stock grafted between the understock and the scion.
- intrinsick — Obsolete form of intrinsic.
- ion rocket — a rocket or rocket engine using ion propulsion.
- jack frost — frost or freezing cold personified.
- jack truss — any of a number of trapezoidal trusses for supporting those areas of a hip roof not beneath the peak or ridge, parallel to the truss or trusses that meet at the peak or ridge.
- jackie tar — jackatar.
- jackrabbit — resembling a jack rabbit, as in suddenness or rapidity of movement: The car made a jackrabbit start when the traffic light turned green.
- jackstraws — one of a group of strips of wood or similar objects, as straws or toothpicks, used in the game of jackstraws.
- job market — the total number of vacant jobs open to those seeking employment.
- jockstraps — Plural form of jockstrap.
- jogjakarta — a city in central Java, in S Indonesia.
- jokjakarta — Jogjakarta.
- junketeers — Plural form of junketeer.
- kafiristan — former name of Nuristan.
- kama sutra — a Hindu religious treatise written c. a.d. 400, that deals with pleasure, love, and sexuality
- kapok tree — any of several tropical bombacaceous trees of the genus Ceiba, esp Ceiba pentandra, having seeds covered with silky hairs from which kapok is obtained
- karri-tree — princess tree.
- karttikeya — the Hindu god of bravery.
- karyotyped — Simple past tense and past participle of karyotype.
- karyotypes — Plural form of karyotype.