10-letter words containing k, s, t, a
- musk plant — a perennial North American plant (Mimulus moschatus) of the figwort family, with yellow tubular flowers and, sometimes, a musky odor
- mythmakers — Plural form of mythmaker.
- nighthawks — Plural form of nighthawk.
- notchbacks — Plural form of notchback.
- oak forest — a town in NE Illinois.
- open-stack — having or being a system of library management in which patrons have direct access to stacks for browsing and selecting books; open-shelf.
- out-basket — out-box.
- outsparkle — to sparkle more brilliantly than
- painstaker — a painstaking person
- pastrycook — a person who makes pastry or pastries
- piatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
- polka dots — Polka dots are very small spots printed on a piece of cloth.
- poltoratsk — a city in and the capital of Turkmenistan, in the S central part, near the Iranian border.
- postattack — to set upon in a forceful, violent, hostile, or aggressive way, with or without a weapon; begin fighting with: He attacked him with his bare hands.
- postmarked — an official mark stamped on letters and other mail, serving as a cancellation of the postage stamp and indicating the place, date, and sometimes time of sending or receipt.
- pyatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
- quark star — a hypothetical celestial object that is intermediate in density between a neutron star and a black hole, possibly the remnant of a massive neutron star with all particles reduced to strange quarks.
- racetracks — Plural form of racetrack.
- ratskeller — the cellar of a town hall, esp one used as a beer hall or restaurant
- rickettsia — any member of the genus Rickettsia, comprising rod-shaped to coccoid microorganisms that resemble bacteria but can be as small as a large virus and reproduce only inside a living cell, parasitic in fleas, ticks, lice, and mites and transmitted by bite to vertebrate hosts, including humans, causing such severe diseases as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
- rump steak — Rump or rump steak is meat cut from the rear end of a cow.
- saint luke — a fellow worker of Paul and a physician (Colossians 4:14). Feast day: Oct 18
- sales talk — a line of reasoning or argument intended to persuade someone to buy, accept, or do something.
- salt chuck — the ocean.
- salt shake — a salt shaker.
- salt stick — a crusty bread roll sprinkled with salt crystals, made in the shape of a cylinder.
- saltshaker — table-salt dispenser
- samarskite — a velvet-black mineral, a complex columbate-tantalate of uranium, cerium, etc., occurring in masses: a minor source of uranium, thorium, and rare-earth oxides.
- sanskritic — an Indo-European, Indic language, in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India. Abbreviation: Skt.
- sauerkraut — cabbage cut fine, salted, and allowed to ferment until sour.
- savitskaya — Svetlana (svɛtˈlɑːnə). born 1949, Soviet cosmonaut, the first woman to walk in space (1984). She was elected to the former Soviet parliament (1989)
- scent-mark — to deposit a scent mark; mark.
- sea rocket — any of several plants of the related genus Cakile, esp C. maritima, which grow along the seashores of Europe and North America and have mauve, pink, or white flowers
- shackleton — Sir Ernest Henry, 1874–1922, English explorer of the Antarctic.
- shakuntala — Sakuntala.
- sheeptrack — a small natural terrace on a hillside
- shirtmaker — a person who makes shirts.
- shockstall — the loss of lift and increase of drag experienced by transonic aircraft when strong shock waves on the wings cause the airflow to separate from the wing surfaces
- shotmaking — the playing of good shots (by a sports player)
- skaithless — without injury or damage
- skate over — to cross on or as if on skates
- skate park — area for skateboarding
- skateboard — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
- sketch map — a rough map of the principal features of a locale, as one drawn from memory.
- sketchable — suitable for being sketched.
- skin graft — skin used for transplanting in skin grafting.
- skin patch — an adhesive patch stuck to the skin to slowly and steadily release medicine into the bloodstream
- slab track — a railroad track in which the rails are attached to and supported by a bed or slab, usually of concrete.
- slack suit — a man's suit for casual wear consisting of slacks and a matching shirt or loose-fitting jacket.
- smack talk — disparaging or abusive remarks intended to put off or intimidate someone, esp an opponent prior to or during a sports match