10-letter words containing k, r
- grand duke — the sovereign of a territory called a grand duchy, ranking next below a king.
- grand turk — an island in the Turks and Caicos Islands of the West Indies. 7 miles (11 km) long.
- grass pink — a pink, Dianthus plumarius, of Europe and Asia, having fragrant, fringed pink, purplish, or white flowers.
- grass sack — South Midland U.S. a gunnysack.
- grasswrack — any of several perennial submerged marine plants of the genus Zostera; eelgrass
- gray skate — a skate, Raja batis, of coastal seas off Great Britain.
- grays peak — a mountain in N central Colorado; highest point in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. 14,270 feet (4352 meters).
- great neck — a town on NW Long Island, in SE New York.
- great sark — the larger northern section of the island of Sark in the Channel Islands, connected to Little Sark by a narrow isthmus
- great skua — Also called bonxie. any of several large brown gull-like predatory birds of the genus Catharacta, related to jaegers, especially C. skua (great skua) of colder waters of both northern and southern seas.
- great week — Holy Week.
- greek fire — an incendiary mixture of unknown composition, used in warfare in medieval times by Byzantine Greeks.
- greek gift — a gift given with the intention of tricking and causing harm to the recipient
- 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. - green leek — any of several Australian parrots with a green or mostly green plumage
- greenbacks — Plural form of greenback.
- greenshank — an Old World shore bird, Tringa nebularia, having green legs.
- greenspeak — the jargon used by those who campaign for the conservation of the world's natural resources and the improvement of the environment
- greenstick — A greenstick fracture.
- grey skate — a species of skate, Dipturus batis
- gridlocked — Simple past tense and past participle of gridlock.
- grillework — Alternative spelling of grillwork.
- grillsteak — a flat fried cake of minced beef or lamb that is usually grilled from frozen
- grimalkins — Plural form of grimalkin.
- 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.
- grubstaked — Simple past tense and past participle of grubstake.
- grubstaker — provisions, gear, etc., furnished to a prospector on condition of participating in the profits of any discoveries.
- grubstakes — Plural form of grubstake.
- grunt work — work that is repetitious, often physically exhausting, and boring.
- guru nanak — ("Guru") 1469–1539, Indian religious leader: founder of Sikhism.
- 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
- hairstreak — any small, dark butterfly of the family Lycaenidae, having hairlike tails on the hind wings.
- hakenkreuz — a swastika, especially that used as the emblem of the Nazi party and the Third Reich.
- half-drunk — being in a temporary state in which one's physical and mental faculties are impaired by an excess of alcoholic drink; intoxicated: The wine made him drunk.
- half-track — a caterpillar tread that runs over and under the rear or driving wheels of a vehicle but is not connected with the forward wheels: used especially on military vehicles.
- hallmarked — Simple past tense and past participle of hallmark.
- halterneck — A single strap or material which runs from the front of the garment around the back of the wearer's neck, leaving most of the back uncovered, often used in swimsuits and women's dresses.
- hammerkops — Plural form of hammerkop.
- hammerlock — a hold in which one arm of an opponent is twisted and forced upward behind his back.
- hand brake — a brake operated by a hand lever. Compare caliper (def 6).
- hand truck — truck1 (def 3).
- handbrakes — Plural form of handbrake.