10-letter words containing n, o, k
- boondocker — combat boot.
- bootmaking — the activity of making boots and shoes
- boskop man — the undated cranial remains of a possible Homo sapiens found in the Transvaal of South Africa.
- bottleneck — A bottleneck is a place where a road becomes narrow or where it meets another road so that the traffic slows down or stops, often causing traffic jams.
- bounceback — the act or an instance of bouncing back, recovering, or recuperating: Fall sales have experienced a tremendous bounceback.
- bousingken — a drinking house frequented by thieves or other disreputable characters
- break down — If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
- break into — If someone breaks into a building, they get into it by force.
- breakfront — (of a bookcase, bureau, etc) having a slightly projecting central section
- breakpoint — an instruction inserted by a debug program causing a return to the debug program
- broken ice — sea ice that covers from 50 to 80 percent of the surface of water in any particular area.
- broken lot — an irregular quantity or lot of securities that is smaller than the amount normally traded
- brokenness — the quality of being broken
- brookhaven — a town in SW Mississippi.
- bunker oil — Nautical. oil taken on board a tanker as fuel, as distinguished from the oil carried as cargo.
- buttonhook — a thin tapering hooked instrument formerly used for pulling buttons through the buttonholes of gloves, shoes, etc
- cabin hook — a hook and eye for fastening a cabinet door or the like.
- caney fork — a river in central Tennessee, flowing NW to the Cumberland River. 144 miles (232 km) long.
- cankerroot — goldthread.
- cankerworm — the larva of either of two geometrid moths, Paleacrita vernata or Alsophila pometaria, which feed on and destroy fruit and shade trees in North America
- centistoke — one hundredth of a stoke
- chain-work — any decorative product, handiwork, etc., in which parts are looped or woven together, like the links of a chain.
- chalkstone — tophus
- check into — to stop or arrest the motion of suddenly or forcibly: He checked the horse at the edge of the cliff.
- checkpoint — A checkpoint is a place where traffic is stopped so that it can be checked.
- cheekbones — Plural form of cheekbone.
- chekhovian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Anton Chekhov or his writings, especially as they are evocative of a mood of introspection and frustration.
- chemokines — Plural form of chemokine.
- chickenpox — Chickenpox is a disease which gives you a high temperature and red spots that itch.
- chockstone — a stone securely jammed in a crack. It may vary in size from a pebble to a large boulder
- choke down — to swallow with difficulty
- chokepoint — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
- chuckwagon — A wagon equipped with food and cooking utensils, as on a ranch or in a lumber camp.
- clinkstone — a variety of phonolite that makes a metallic sound when struck
- cloak fern — a type of fern, genus Notholaena, found in dry, rocky areas of temperate and tropical America, often used as an ornamental.
- close-knit — A close-knit group of people are closely linked, do things together, and take an interest in each other.
- clove pink — carnation (sense 1)
- cockernony — a woman's hairstyle in which the hair is gathered up in a band
- cockneydom — cockneys considered together as a group
- cockneyism — a characteristic of speech or custom peculiar to cockneys
- cocksiness — the state of being cocksy
- coffinlike — Resembling a coffin.
- cold drink — a beverage that is chilled.
- cook inlet — an inlet of the Pacific on the coast of S Alaska: part of the Gulf of Alaska
- cool drink — any soft drink
- copperskin — a Native American
- coral pink — a light to medium yellowish-pink color.
- corn crake — a short-billed Eurasian rail, Crex crex, frequenting grainfields.
- corn shock — a stack or bundle of bound or unbound corn piled upright for curing or drying
- corn shuck — the husk of an ear of maize