10-letter words containing o, r, k
- corncockle — a European caryophyllaceous plant, Agrostemma githago, that has reddish-purple flowers and grows in cornfields and by roadsides
- corncrakes — Plural form of corncrake.
- cornerback — a defensive back
- cornflakes — a breakfast cereal made from toasted maize, eaten with milk, sugar, etc
- cornhusker — a person or machine that strips cornhusks from ears of maize
- cornstalks — Plural form of cornstalk.
- cornsticks — Plural form of cornstick.
- corpselike — Resembling a corpse.
- coursebook — a book studied on an educational course
- coursework — written or oral work completed by a student within a given period, which is assessed as an integral part of an educational course
- cow killer — a large velvet ant (Dasymutilla occidentalis) of the S and E U.S.: the wingless female has a powerful sting
- crack down — If people in authority crack down on a group of people, they become stricter in making the group obey rules or laws.
- crack root — (security, jargon) To defeat the security system of a Unix machine and gain root privileges thereby. The sort of thing a cracker wants to do.
- crackdowns — Plural form of crackdown.
- crackhouse — a place where cocaine in the form of crack is bought, sold, and smoked.
- crewelwork — embroidery done with crewel
- crooked on — hostile or averse to
- crookedest — Superlative form of crooked.
- crookesite — a rare mineral, selenide of copper, thallium, and silver, (Cu, Tl, Ag) 2 Se, occurring in steel-gray, compact masses.
- crooknecks — Plural form of crookneck.
- cross buck — an offensive play in which two running backs cross paths and charge into the line on opposite sides, one back receiving the ball from the quarterback and the other back faking possession.
- cross talk — interference in one channel from another or others
- cross-link — a chemical bond, atom, or group of atoms that connects two adjacent chains of atoms in a large molecule such as a polymer or protein
- crosscheck — to verify (a fact, report, etc) by considering conflicting opinions or consulting other sources
- crossjacks — Plural form of crossjack.
- crosswalks — Plural form of crosswalk.
- crowkeeper — a person who guards crops from crows
- cuckoo ray — a fish, Raja naevus
- dark cloud — grey clouds threatening rain
- dark horse — If you describe someone as a dark horse, you mean that people know very little about them, although they may have recently had success or may be about to have success.
- dark money — money donated to politically active nonprofit organizations or anonymous corporate entities, which spend this money to influence political campaigns or other special interests but are not required to reveal their donors.
- deck cargo — cargo that is carried on the deck of a ship
- defrocking — Present participle of defrock.
- desert oak — a tree, Casuarina decaisneana, of Central and NW Australia, the timber of which is resistant to termite attack
- deskperson — Journalism. a member of a newspaper staff who processes news and prepares copy, usually from information telephoned in by reporters.
- dirty joke — vulgar piece of humour
- dirty look — face: resentful expression
- dirty work — disagreeable, often tedious tasks.
- disfrocked — Simple past tense and past participle of disfrock.
- ditto mark — Often, ditto marks. two small marks (″) indicating the repetition of something, usually placed beneath the thing repeated.
- dockmaster — a person who supervises the dry-docking of ships.
- dockworker — a person employed on the docks of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
- dog tucker — the meat of a sheep killed on a farm and used as dog food
- dog-walker — a person who walks other people's dogs, especially for a fee.
- donkeywork — Informal. tedious, repetitious work; drudgery.
- donnybrook — an inordinately wild fight or contentious dispute; brawl; free-for-all.
- door check — a device, usually hydraulic or pneumatic, for controlling the closing of a door and preventing it from slamming.
- doorkeeper — a person who guards the entrance of a building.
- dory skiff — an open boat similar to but smaller than a dory.
- doukhobors — Dukhobors