10-letter words containing n, e, c, k, s
- jackanapes — an impertinent, presumptuous person, especially a young man; whippersnapper.
- jackknifes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jackknife.
- jackknives — Plural form of jackknife.
- jackstones — Plural form of jackstone.
- kalanchoes — Plural form of kalanchoe.
- kenoticist — someone who believes in or supports the idea of kenosis
- kenspeckle — conspicuous; easily seen or recognized.
- keypunches — Plural form of keypunch.
- kinematics — the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.
- kinescopes — Plural form of kinescope.
- kineticism — the quality or state of being kinetic.
- kineticist — someone who studies kinetics
- kitschness — the quality of being kitsch
- knackeries — Plural form of knackery.
- knackiness — the quality or condition of being knacky
- knapsacked — Simple past tense and past participle of knapsack.
- neckcloths — Plural form of neckcloth.
- neckpieces — Plural form of neckpiece.
- nitpickers — Plural form of nitpicker.
- open stock — merchandise, especially china, silverware, and glassware, sold in sets with additional individual pieces available from stock for future purchases, as for replacement.
- 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.
- pickedness — sharpness or the state of being pointed
- picnickers — an excursion or outing in which the participants carry food with them and share a meal in the open air.
- pluckiness — having or showing pluck or courage; brave: The drowning swimmer was rescued by a plucky schoolboy.
- rackabones — 'a rack of bones', a metaphor for a person or animal that is very thin or emaciated
- rank scale — (in systemic linguistics) a hierarchical ordering of grammatical units such that a unit of a given rank normally consists of units of the next lower rank, as, in English, the ordering sentence, clause, group or phrase, word, morpheme.
- ranshackle — to ransack
- reichsbank — the former German national bank.
- rock snake — any large Australasian python of the genus Liasis
- sandsucker — the flatfish Platessa limandoides
- scene dock — dock1 (def 7).
- scent-mark — to deposit a scent mark; mark.
- scharwenka — (Ludwig) Philipp [loot-vikh fee-lip] /ˈlut vɪx ˈfi lɪp/ (Show IPA), 1847–1917, German composer.
- scoop neck — a round, usually low, neckline on a dress, blouse, etc.
- shackleton — Sir Ernest Henry, 1874–1922, English explorer of the Antarctic.
- shankpiece — a piece of metal or fiber for giving form to the shank of a shoe.
- shevchenko — Taras Grigoryevich [Russian tah-ruh s gryi-gawr-yi-vyich] /Russian ˈtɑ rəs gryɪˈgɔr yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1814–61, Ukrainian national poet.
- sickerness — sureness
- sickliness — not strong; unhealthy; ailing.
- sicknesses — a particular disease or malady.
- silkscreen — Also called silkscreen process. a printmaking technique in which a mesh cloth is stretched over a heavy wooden frame and the design, painted on the screen by tusche or affixed by stencil, is printed by having a squeegee force color through the pores of the material in areas not blocked out by a glue sizing.
- skeletonic — resembling a skeleton
- slackening — an act of becoming looser
- snickering — to laugh in a half-suppressed, indecorous or disrespectful manner.
- sock-liner — a thin piece of material, as leather, that is laid on top of the insole of a shoe, boot, or other footwear.
- space junk — objects such as artificial satellites, material discarded from space stations, etc that remain in space after use
- spongecake — sweet cake of eggs and flour
- stickering — a person or thing that sticks.
- stickiness — having the property of adhering, as glue; adhesive.
- sticky end — a single-stranded end of DNA or RNA having a nucleotide base sequence complementary to that of another strand, enabling the two strands to be connected by base pairing: produced in the laboratory with the use of restriction enzymes for genetic engineering purposes.