10-letter words containing k, s, h, e
- chunkiness — The state of being chunky.
- cockhorses — Plural form of cockhorse.
- cornhusker — a person or machine that strips cornhusks from ears of maize
- crackheads — Plural form of crackhead.
- crackhouse — a place where cocaine in the form of crack is bought, sold, and smoked.
- crosscheck — to verify (a fact, report, etc) by considering conflicting opinions or consulting other sources
- dark horse — If you describe someone as a dark horse, you mean that people know very little about them, although they may have recently had success or may be about to have success.
- death mask — A death mask is a model of someone's face, which is made from a mould that was taken of their face soon after they died.
- 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 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.
- dock house — traditionally a building situated at the dock where a harbourmaster works and resides
- doohickeys — Plural form of doohickey.
- 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.
- earthworks — Plural form of earthwork.
- ekphrastic — Pertaining to ekphrasis; clear, lucid.
- fair shake — an equitable opportunity or treatment: The judges promised that every entrant in the contest would get a fair shake.
- 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.
- fisherfolk — People who catch fish for a living.
- flunkeyish — resembling a flunkey
- 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.
- frithsoken — (from Old English) a refuge; a sanctuary
- greenshank — an Old World shore bird, Tringa nebularia, having green legs.
- hack house — Falconry. a shed where young hawks are kept and fed while at hack.
- hackamores — Plural form of hackamore.
- hackensack — a city in NE New Jersey, near New York City.
- hackeysack — A non-competition sport in which a small sack, or
- hairstreak — any small, dark butterfly of the family Lycaenidae, having hairlike tails on the hind wings.
- hamesucken — the offence of attacking a person in his or her own dwelling
- hammerkops — Plural form of hammerkop.
- hamshackle — to hobble (a cow, horse, etc) by tying a rope around the head and one of the legs
- hand-spike — a bar used as a lever.
- handbasket — a small basket with a handle for carrying by hand.
- handbrakes — Plural form of handbrake.
- handshaker — a person who is or is required to be overtly or ostentatiously friendly: Politicians are often incurable handshakers.
- handshakes — Plural form of handshake.
- handspikes — Plural form of handspike.
- handstroke — the downward movement of the bell rope as the bell swings around allowing the ringer to grasp and pull it
- haversacks — Plural form of haversack.
- hawk's-eye — a dark-blue chatoyant quartz formed by the silicification of crocidolite, used for ornamental purposes. Compare tiger's-eye (def 1).
- headstocks — Plural form of headstock.
- hearselike — Resembling or characteristic of a hearse.