10-letter words containing l, e, k, s
- grillsteak — a flat fried cake of minced beef or lamb that is usually grilled from frozen
- hamshackle — to hobble (a cow, horse, etc) by tying a rope around the head and one of the legs
- hearselike — Resembling or characteristic of a hearse.
- heliskiing — skiing on remote mountains to which the participants are brought by helicopter.
- hicksville — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- houseleeks — Plural form of houseleek.
- hyperlinks — Plural form of hyperlink.
- inglenooks — Plural form of inglenook.
- insectlike — Resembling an insect in any of various attributes such as form, behavior, or sound.
- interlinks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interlink.
- interlocks — Plural form of interlock.
- jacketless — Without a jacket (coat).
- jailbreaks — Plural form of jailbreak.
- jaruzelski — Wojciech (Witold) [voi-chekh vee-tawld] /ˈvɔɪ tʃɛx ˈvi tɔld/ (Show IPA), 1923–2014, Polish general and political leader: prime minister 1981–85; president 1989–90.
- jaywalkers — Plural form of jaywalker.
- kabalevsky — Dmitri [duh-mee-tree;; Russian dmyee-tryee] /dəˈmi tri;; Russian ˈdmyi tryi/ (Show IPA), 1904–1987, Russian composer.
- kalanchoes — Plural form of kalanchoe.
- kenspeckle — conspicuous; easily seen or recognized.
- kesselring — Albert [al-bert;; German ahl-bert] /ˈæl bərt;; German ˈɑl bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1885–1960, German field marshal.
- keyserling — Hermann Alexander [her-mahn ah-le-ksahn-duh r] /ˈhɛr mɑn ˌɑ lɛˈksɑn dər/ (Show IPA), Count, 1880–1946, German philosopher and writer.
- kid gloves — a glove made of kid leather.
- kieselguhr — diatomaceous earth.
- kieślowski — Krzysztof (ˈkrɪʃtɔf). 1941–96, Polish film director, whose later films were made in France; his work includes the television series Decalogue (1988–89) and the film trilogy Three Colours (1993–94)
- kilderkins — Plural form of kilderkin.
- killstreak — (video games) An unbroken streak (continuous series) of kills.
- kilojoules — Plural form of kilojoule.
- kiloliters — Plural form of kiloliter.
- kilolitres — Plural form of kilolitre.
- kilometers — a unit of length, the common measure of distances equal to 1000 meters, and equivalent to 3280.8 feet or 0.621 mile. Abbreviation: km.
- kilometres — Plural form of kilometre.
- kiloparsec — a unit of distance, equal to 1000 parsecs. Abbreviation: kpc.
- kindliness — the state or quality of being kindly; benevolence.
- kingliness — stately or splendid, as resembling, suggesting, or befitting a king; regal: He strode into the room with a kingly air.
- kingsolver — Barbara, born 1955, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.
- kingsville — a city in S Texas.
- kirksville — a city in N Missouri.
- klaberjass — a card game played with a 32-card pack, made by removing all cards below the sevens from a regular 52-card pack, in which scoring values are assigned to certain cards taken in tricks, to sequences in the same suit, to the king and queen of trumps, and to the last trick.
- klebsiella — any of several rod-shaped, aerobic bacteria of the genus Klebsiella, certain species of which, as K. pneumoniae, are found in the respiratory, intestinal, and genitourinary tracts of humans and animals and are sometimes pathogenic.
- klendusity — (in plants) the ability to resist disease
- kline test — a test for syphilis in which the formation of a microscopic precipitate in a mixture of the patient's serum and an antigen indicates a syphilitic condition.
- klutziness — clumsy; awkward: If you weren't so klutzy you wouldn't have dropped it.
- knightless — not suitable or seemly for a knight
- knowledges — Plural form of knowledge.
- kohlrabies — Plural form of kohlrabi.
- kolinskies — Plural form of kolinsky.
- korn shell — (ksh) A command interpreter for Unix.
- kovalevsky — Sonia [sohn-yuh] /ˈsoʊn yə/ (Show IPA), (Sofia Vasilievna Kovalevskaya) 1850–91, Russian mathematician.
- kriegspiel — (sometimes initial capital letter) a game using small figures and counters that represent troops, ships, etc., played on a map or miniature battlefield, developed for teaching military tactics to officers.
- lacemakers — Plural form of lacemaker.
- lackluster — lacking brilliance or radiance; dull: lackluster eyes.