10-letter words containing r, y, o, k
- key worker — a social worker, mental health worker, or nursery nurse assigned to an individual case, patient, or child
- keyboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of keyboard.
- keyboarder — One who keyboards; a typist.
- keystrokes — Plural form of keystroke.
- kidney ore — a form of hematite that occurs in kidney-shaped masses
- kidneywort — the navelwort, Umbilicus rupestris, of the stonecrop family, having drooping yellowish-green flowers.
- kir royale — an apéritif of white wine or sometimes champagne (Kir Royale) flavored with cassis.
- krivoy rog — a city in SE Ukraine: founded in the 17th century by Cossacks; iron-mining centre; iron- and steelworks. Pop: 658 000 (2005 est)
- kryptonate — (inorganic chemistry) To infuse a solid with krypton gas (especially with radioactive krypton-85).
- kryptonite — The one weakness of something or someone that is otherwise invulnerable, an Achilles' heel.
- kymographs — Plural form of kymograph.
- kymography — The use of a kymograph.
- looyenwork — a physical therapy intended to release muscle fibre adhesions
- matryoshka — Each of a set of brightly painted hollow wooden dolls of varying sizes, designed to nest inside one another.
- moneymaker — a person engaged in or successful at acquiring much money.
- mussorgsky — Modest Petrovich [moh-dest pi-troh-vich;; Russian muh-dyest pyi-traw-vyich] /moʊˈdɛst pɪˈtroʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian mʌˈdyɛst pyɪˈtrɔ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Moussorgsky, Modest Petrovich.
- new yorker — Also called New York State. a state in the NE United States. 49,576 sq. mi. (128,400 sq. km). Capital: Albany. Abbreviation: NY (for use with zip code), N.Y.
- north york — city in SE Ontario, Canada: part of metropolitan Toronto: pop. 590,000
- ollycrocks — Plural form of ollycrock.
- pastrycook — a person who makes pastry or pastries
- peacockery — proud or ostentatious display
- perikaryon — cell body.
- playbroker — play agent.
- pokerishly — in a pokerish manner
- pork belly — a side of fresh pork.
- prokaryote — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- pyatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
- rekeyboard — to enter (information) again on a keyboard or other similar device
- rock candy — sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.
- rock cycle — Geology. a continuous process by which rocks are created, changed from one form to another, destroyed, and then formed again.
- rock hyrax — an African and Middle Eastern hyrax of the genus Procavia that lives in rocky places.
- 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-candy — sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.
- rockabilly — a style of popular music combining the features of rock-'n'-roll and hillbilly music.
- rocky hill — a town in central Connecticut.
- royal duke — a duke who is also a royal prince, being a member of the royal family
- skytrooper — a paratrooper.
- szymborska — Wislawa [vis-lah-vah] /vɪsˈlɑ vɑ/ (Show IPA), 1923–2012, Polish poet: Nobel prize 1996.
- trotskyism — the form of Communism advocated by Leon Trotsky, based on an immediate, worldwide revolution by the proletariat.
- trotskyist — A Trotskyist is someone who supports the revolutionary left-wing ideas of Leon Trotsky.
- trotskyite — a supporter of Trotsky or Trotskyism.
- trubetzkoy — N(ikolai) S(ergeievich) [nyi-kuh-lahy syir-gye-yi-vyich] /nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1938, Russian linguist in Austria.
- turkey oak — any of several oaks, as Quercus cerris, of Eurasia, or Q. laevis and Q. incana, of the southern U.S., that grow on dry, sandy barrens.
- work-study — an examination of ways of finding the most efficient method of doing a job, esp in terms of time and effort
- yogyakarta — a city in central Java, in S Indonesia.
- yoke front — oxbow front.
- yom kippur — a Jewish high holy day observed on the 10th day of the month of Tishri by abstinence from food and drink and by the daylong recitation of prayers of repentance in the synagogue.
- young turk — a member of a Turkish reformist and nationalist party that was founded in the latter part of the 19th century and was the dominant political party in Turkey in the period 1908–18.