10-letter words containing k, s
- drillstock — a device for holding a drill.
- drumsticks — Plural form of drumstick.
- dry socket — a painful inflammatory infection of the bone and tissues at the site of an extracted tooth.
- dsp56k-gcc — Motorola's port of gcc version 1.37.1 to the Motorola DSP56000.
- dual-stack — (networking) A term used to describe a network node running both IPv4 and IPv6 protocol stacks (or possibly others) at the same time. Such a machine can act as a protocol converter between the two networks. A node without dual-stack support can relay traffic in a protocol it does not support natively by use of tunnelling.
- duck press — a cooked duck sprinkled with red wine and then pressed in a device (duck press) so that the juices can be collected and served as a sauce over the breast meat and legs.
- duck's ass — DA.
- duck-shove — to evade responsibility (for)
- duckboards — Plural form of duckboard.
- duckshover — one who duckshoves, jumps a queue; cheats
- dumbstruck — temporarily deprived of the power of speech, as by surprise or confusion; dumbfounded.
- dust kitty — a dust ball.
- dustjacket — Alternative form of dust jacket.
- dusty deck — Old software (especially applications) which one is obliged to remain compatible with, or to maintain. DP types call this "legacy code", a term hackers consider smarmy and excessively reverent. The term implies that the software in question is a holdover from card-punch days. Used especially when referring to old scientific and number crunching software, much of which was written in Fortran and very poorly documented but is believed to be too expensive to replace. See fossil; compare crawling horror.
- dyskinesia — difficulty or abnormality in performing voluntary muscular movements.
- dyskinesis — A reduced ability to control and coordinate movement.
- dyskinetic — difficulty or abnormality in performing voluntary muscular movements.
- 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.
- escape key — a key on a computer keyboard used to leave a computer-program sequence before its end, in order to commence another sequence
- eskilstuna — an industrial city in SE Sweden. Pop: 91 137 (2004 est)
- eskimo dog — a large powerful breed of sled dog with a long thick coat and curled tail
- eukaryotes — Plural form of eukaryote.
- eye socket — Your eye sockets are the two hollow parts on either side of your face, where your eyeballs are.
- fair shake — an equitable opportunity or treatment: The judges promised that every entrant in the contest would get a fair shake.
- false keel — an extension to the keel of a vessel either for protecting the keel from damage or for reducing leeway
- falseworks — Plural form of falsework.
- fantastick — Obsolete form of fantastic.
- fast break — a play, as in basketball, in which a team quickly moves down the playing area in an attempt to score before an adequate defense can be set up
- fast track — a racetrack dry and hard enough for optimum speed.
- fast-break — to execute or play in the style of a fast break.
- fast-track — of or relating to the fast track.
- fecklessly — In a feckless manner.
- feedstocks — Plural form of feedstock.
- fickleness — Changeability, especially as regards one's loyalties or affections.
- fieldworks — Plural form of fieldwork.
- filmmakers — Plural form of filmmaker.
- firebreaks — Plural form of firebreak.
- firebricks — Plural form of firebrick.
- firedrakes — Plural form of firedrake.
- firetrucks — Plural form of firetruck.
- first dark — twilight.
- 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.
- fish stick — an oblong piece of fried fish, usually breaded.
- fisherfolk — People who catch fish for a living.
- fixed disk — (storage) A hard disk which is not a removable disk.
- flagsticks — Plural form of flagstick.
- flarebacks — Plural form of flareback.