10-letter words containing o, a, k, r
- gadzookery — the use or overuse of period-specific or archaic expressions, as in a historical novel: Without any gadzookery and its excessive use of “forsooth,” “prithee,” etc., her first historical novel conveys a superb sense of the period.
- gas cooker — cooking stove that runs on gas
- gas worker — a gas engineer
- glassworks — a factory where glass is made.
- glovemaker — A maker of gloves; a glover.
- go-karting — racing in small vehicle
- goalkeeper — (in ice hockey, field hockey, lacrosse, soccer, etc.) a player whose chief duty is to prevent the ball or puck from crossing or entering the goal.
- goalkicker — a person who makes a goal kick
- goatsucker — nightjar (def 2).
- gonkulator — /gon'kyoo-lay-tr/ (From "Hogan's Heroes", the TV series) A pretentious piece of equipment that actually serves no useful purpose. Usually used to describe one's least favourite piece of computer hardware. See gonk.
- grade book — a book in which a student's grades are recorded
- hack board — Falconry. a board or platform at which hawks being flown at hack are fed.
- hackamores — Plural form of hackamore.
- hackerazzo — a person who hacks into the computer or phone of a celebrity in order to gain information about him or her
- hammerkops — Plural form of hammerkop.
- hammerlock — a hold in which one arm of an opponent is twisted and forced upward behind his back.
- handstroke — the downward movement of the bell rope as the bell swings around allowing the ringer to grasp and pull it
- hard-knock — beset with hardship.
- heartbroke — heartbroken
- heatstroke — a disturbance of the temperature-regulating mechanisms of the body caused by overexposure to excessive heat, resulting in fever, hot and dry skin, and rapid pulse, sometimes progressing to delirium and coma.
- hektograph — to copy with the hectograph.
- hemikaryon — a haploid nucleus.
- herakleion — a seaport in N Crete.
- homemakers — Plural form of homemaker.
- horse rake — a large-wheeled rake drawn by a horse.
- hot-walker — a person whose job is walking racehorses after races, workouts, etc. to allow them to cool off gradually
- hotel rack — rack6 (def 2).
- house mark — a trademark that appears on and identifies all of a company's products.
- housebreak — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- housemaker — Homemaker.
- hydrocrack — to crack (petroleum or the like) in the presence of hydrogen.
- jabberwock — a playful imitation of language consisting of invented, meaningless words; nonsense; gibberish.
- jack frost — frost or freezing cold personified.
- jailbroken — an escape from prison, especially by forcible means.
- job market — the total number of vacant jobs open to those seeking employment.
- jockstraps — Plural form of jockstrap.
- jogjakarta — a city in central Java, in S Indonesia.
- jokjakarta — Jogjakarta.
- kabaragoya — The water monitor, Varanus salvator, a large lizard of Southeast Asia.
- kaempferol — (organic compound) A flavonoid, isolated from tea and other plants, that may reduce the risk of heart disease.
- kairomones — Plural form of kairomone.
- kalgoorlie — a city in SW Australia: chief center of gold-mining industry in Australia.
- kapok tree — any of several tropical bombacaceous trees of the genus Ceiba, esp Ceiba pentandra, having seeds covered with silky hairs from which kapok is obtained
- karlskrona — a port in S Sweden: Sweden's main naval base since 1680. Pop: 61 097 (2004 est)
- karyograms — Plural form of karyogram.
- karyologic — of or relating to karyology
- karyolymph — The liquid part of the nucleus of a cell.
- karyolysis — the dissolution of a cell nucleus.
- karyoplasm — nucleoplasm.
- karyosomes — Plural form of karyosome.