10-letter words containing o, s, k, e
- intershock — To shock mutually, as if by collision.
- interstock — a stock grafted between the understock and the scion.
- isokinetic — (biophysics) Relating to the force that a muscle applies during a limb movement at constant velocity.
- jackstones — Plural form of jackstone.
- job seeker — a person who is actively looking for employment.
- jobseekers — Plural form of jobseeker.
- jockeyship — the art or skill of a jockey
- joe doakes — Joe Blow.
- john jakes — John, born 1932, U.S. novelist.
- juke house — a cheap roadhouse.
- kairomones — Plural form of kairomone.
- kalanchoes — Plural form of kalanchoe.
- karyosomes — Plural form of karyosome.
- karyotypes — Plural form of karyotype.
- keep books — to keep a record of business transactions
- keep house — a building in which people live; residence for human beings.
- keep score — sport: record results
- kenoticist — someone who believes in or supports the idea of kenosis
- kensington — a former borough of Greater London, England: now part of Kensington and Chelsea.
- keratinous — composed of or resembling keratin; horny.
- kerbstones — Plural form of kerbstone.
- ketohexose — any of a class of sugars composed of six carbon atoms and a ketone group, as fructose.
- ketotriose — (carbohydrate) Any ketose having three carbon atoms; in reality, only dihydroxyacetone.
- key escrow — (security) A controversial arrangement where the keys needed to decrypt encrypted data must be held in escrow by a third party so that government agencies can obtain them to decrypt messages which they suspect to be relevant to national security.
- keystrokes — Plural form of keystroke.
- kicksorter — a multichannel pulse-height analyser used esp to distinguish between isotopes by sorting their characteristic pulses (kicks)
- kid gloves — a glove made of kid leather.
- 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)
- 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.
- kinescopes — Plural form of kinescope.
- kinetosome — a structure in some flagellate protozoans which forms the base of the flagellum, consisting of a circular arrangement of microtubules
- kingsolver — Barbara, born 1955, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.
- kinsperson — A kinsman or kinswoman.
- knobbiness — the quality or condition of being knobby
- knottiness — having knots; full of knots: a knotty piece of wood.
- knowledges — Plural form of knowledge.
- koeksister — (South Africa) A traditional Malay confection consisting of a deep-fried twisted or plaited doughnut dipped in syrup immediately after cooking.
- kohlrabies — Plural form of kohlrabi.
- kolinskies — Plural form of kolinsky.
- konigsberg — a former province in NE Germany: an enclave separated from Germany by the Polish Corridor; now divided between Poland and the Russian Federation. 14,283 sq. mi. (36,993 sq. km). Capital: Königsberg.
- korn shell — (ksh) A command interpreter for Unix.
- kovalevsky — Sonia [sohn-yuh] /ˈsoʊn yə/ (Show IPA), (Sofia Vasilievna Kovalevskaya) 1850–91, Russian mathematician.
- lake poets — the English poets Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey, who lived in and drew inspiration from the Lake District at the beginning of the 19th century
- lake pskov — the S part of Lake Peipus in NW Russia, linked to the main part by a channel 24 km (15 miles) long. Area: about 1000 sq km (400 sq miles)
- lakefronts — Plural form of lakefront.