10-letter words containing o, s, k
- guest book — (web) The electronic equivalent of the physical notebooks found in some small hotels, in which visitors can write their names, comments and suggestions for the benefit of the proprietors and future visitors or purely for posterity. The electronic version is a form on a website into which users can enter similar details for display on the site.
- guidebooks — Plural form of guidebook.
- hack house — Falconry. a shed where young hawks are kept and fed while at hack.
- hackamores — Plural form of hackamore.
- hackintosh — 1. (jargon, computer) An Apple Lisa that has been hacked into emulating a Macintosh (also called a "Mac XL"). 2. (jargon, computer) A Macintosh assembled from parts theoretically belonging to different models in the line.
- hammerkops — Plural form of hammerkop.
- handstroke — the downward movement of the bell rope as the bell swings around allowing the ringer to grasp and pull it
- headstocks — Plural form of headstock.
- 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.
- hektostere — a unit of capacity equal to 100 steres, or 131 cubic yards.
- herskowitz — Melville (Jean) 1895–1963, American anthropologist.
- hexokinase — an enzyme that catalyzes the phosphorylation of hexose sugars.
- hog sucker — any of several suckers of the genus Hypentelium, inhabiting cool streams of eastern North America and characterized by a broad head that is concave above.
- hollyhocks — Plural form of hollyhock.
- homemakers — Plural form of homemaker.
- hookedness — The condition of being bent like a hook; incurvation.
- hoop skirt — a woman's skirt made to stand out and drape in a stiff bell-like shape from the waist by an undergarment framework of flexible hoops connected by tapes.
- hoop snake — any of several harmless snakes, as the mud snake and rainbow snake, fabled to take its tail in its mouth and roll along like a hoop.
- hoop-skirt — a skirt that has hoops made of bone or metal, etc fastened inside it to make it stiff and full
- hopsacking — bagging made chiefly of hemp and jute.
- horse rake — a large-wheeled rake drawn by a horse.
- house dick — house detective.
- 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.
- housebroke — Simple past form of housebreak.
- houseleeks — Plural form of houseleek.
- housemaker — Homemaker.
- hyson skin — the inferior leaves of a Chinese green tea
- inglenooks — Plural form of inglenook.
- interlocks — Plural form of interlock.
- 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.
- jabotinsky — Vladimir, 1880–1940, Russian Zionist leader in Palestine.
- jack frost — frost or freezing cold personified.
- jacksonian — of or relating to Andrew Jackson, his ideas, the period of his presidency, or the political principles or social values associated with him: Jacksonian democracy.
- jacksonism — the group of political principles or attitudes associated with Andrew Jackson.
- 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
- jockstraps — Plural form of jockstrap.
- joe doakes — Joe Blow.
- john jakes — John, born 1932, U.S. novelist.
- joss stick — a slender stick of a dried, fragrant paste, burned by the Chinese as incense before a joss.
- juke house — a cheap roadhouse.
- junk bonds — any corporate bond with a low rating and a high yield, often involving high risk.
- just folks — Usually, folks. (used with a plural verb) people in general: Folks say there wasn't much rain last summer.
- kairomones — Plural form of kairomone.
- kalanchoes — Plural form of kalanchoe.