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10-letter words containing o, s, k

  • outsparkle — to sparkle more brilliantly than
  • outspeckle — a spectacle
  • overstrike — to stamp a new device, value, or inscription on (a coin).
  • overstruck — to stamp a new device, value, or inscription on (a coin).
  • pack-horse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
  • pastrycook — a person who makes pastry or pastries
  • peacockish — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
  • peak hours — prime time, busiest period
  • perovskite — a naturally occurring titanate of calcium, CaTiO 3 , found as yellow, brown, or black cubic crystals, usually in metamorphic rocks.
  • piatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
  • pick holes — If you pick holes in an argument or theory, you find weak points in it so that it is no longer valid.
  • pink noise — a random signal within the audible frequency range whose amplitude decreases as frequency increases, maintaining constant audio power per frequency increment.
  • pitchforks — a large, long-handled fork for manually lifting and pitching hay, stalks of grain, etc.
  • pogo stick — a long stick having a pair of handles at the top and, near the bottom, a pair of footrests attached to a powerful spring, so that by standing on the footrests while grasping the handles, one can propel oneself along in a series of leaps.
  • poison oak — either of two shrubs, Rhus toxicodendron, of the eastern U.S., or R. diversiloba, of the Pacific coast of North America, resembling poison ivy and causing severe dermatitis when touched by persons sensitive to them.
  • pokerishly — in a pokerish manner
  • polka dots — Polka dots are very small spots printed on a piece of cloth.
  • polo stick — a stick used to strike the ball in the game of polo
  • poltoratsk — a city in and the capital of Turkmenistan, in the S central part, near the Iranian border.
  • postattack — to set upon in a forceful, violent, hostile, or aggressive way, with or without a weapon; begin fighting with: He attacked him with his bare hands.
  • postmarked — an official mark stamped on letters and other mail, serving as a cancellation of the postage stamp and indicating the place, date, and sometimes time of sending or receipt.
  • poststrike — of or relating to the period after a (workers) strike
  • potsticker — a pan-fried and steamed Chinese dumpling with a ground meat or vegetable filling.
  • prick song — written music.
  • prick-post — (in a framed structure) a secondary post, as a queen post.
  • printworks — (used with a singular or plural verb) a factory that prints textiles or other materials.
  • proskomide — prothesis (def 2a).
  • pyatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
  • rackabones — 'a rack of bones', a metaphor for a person or animal that is very thin or emaciated
  • raskolniki — a member of any of several sects founded by dissenters from the Russian Orthodox Church who opposed the liturgical reforms of Nikon in the 17th century.
  • rock cress — any of several low growing plants belonging to the genus Arabis, of the mustard family, having spikes or one-sided clusters of white, pink, or purple flowers, grown as an ornamental in rock gardens.
  • rock falls — a city in NW Illinois.
  • rock music — heavy form of pop music
  • rock snake — any large Australasian python of the genus Liasis
  • rock spray — a low, evergreen, Himalayan shrub, Cotoneaster microphyllus, of the rose family, having shiny leaves with grayish, hairy undersides, white flowers, and scarlet berries.
  • rock-solid — Something that is rock-solid is extremely hard.
  • rosa parks — Gordon (Alexander Buchanan) 1912–2006, U.S. photojournalist and film director.
  • sailorlike — resembling a sailor
  • salad fork — a small, broad fork, usually one of a set, for eating salad or dessert.
  • sandy hook — a peninsula in E New Jersey, at the entrance to lower New York Bay. 6 miles (10 km) long.
  • scalp lock — a long lock or tuft of hair left on the shorn scalp by some North American Indian men.
  • scene dock — dock1 (def 7).
  • schafskopf — sheepshead (def 4).
  • school kid — child of school age
  • schoolbook — a book for study in schools.
  • schoolwork — the material studied in or for school, comprising homework and work done in class.
  • scoop neck — a round, usually low, neckline on a dress, blouse, etc.
  • screw hook — a hook having a shank in the form of a screw.
  • scrollwork — decorative work in which scroll forms figure prominently.
  • sea rocket — any of several plants of the related genus Cakile, esp C. maritima, which grow along the seashores of Europe and North America and have mauve, pink, or white flowers
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