10-letter words containing s, e, c, k
- close-knit — A close-knit group of people are closely linked, do things together, and take an interest in each other.
- club steak — a small steak that is cut from the short loin of beef and contains no part of the tenderloin
- cockatiels — Plural form of cockatiel.
- cockhorses — Plural form of cockhorse.
- cockleburs — Plural form of cocklebur.
- cockneyism — a characteristic of speech or custom peculiar to cockneys
- cocksiness — the state of being cocksy
- cocksucker — a person regarded as despicable, disgusting, etc.
- cocksurely — In a cocksure manner.
- cockteaser — a girl or woman who purposely excites or arouses a male sexually but then refuses to have intercourse.
- comstocker — a person who practises comstockery
- cookieless — Without cookies (the food).
- cookstoves — Plural form of cookstove.
- copperskin — a Native American
- corkscrews — Plural form of corkscrew.
- corkscrewy — Resembling the worm of a corkscrew in shape.
- corn snake — a large, harmless rat snake, Elaphe guttata guttata, of the southeastern U.S., having yellow, tan, or gray scales with dark-red blotches: once common in cornfields but now an endangered species.
- corncrakes — Plural form of corncrake.
- 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
- 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
- crack wise — to joke or gibe
- crackheads — Plural form of crackhead.
- crackhouse — a place where cocaine in the form of crack is bought, sold, and smoked.
- crankcases — Plural form of crankcase.
- crankiness — ill-tempered; grouchy; cross: I'm always cranky when I don't get enough sleep.
- creakiness — The state of being creaky.
- cricketers — Plural form of cricketer.
- 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.
- crosscheck — to verify (a fact, report, etc) by considering conflicting opinions or consulting other sources
- cube steak — a thin slice of beef that has been tenderized by being cubed
- dead stock — farm equipment
- dead-stick — designating a landing made by an aircraft or spacecraft without using power
- deckchairs — Plural form of deckchair.
- deckhouses — Plural form of deckhouse.
- desk check — (programming) To grovel over hardcopy of source code, mentally simulating the control flow; a method of catching bugs. No longer common practice in this age of on-screen editing, fast compiles, and sophisticated debuggers - though some maintain stoutly that it ought to be. Compare dry run, eyeball search, vdiff, vgrep.
- desk clerk — A desk clerk is someone who works at the main desk in a hotel.
- destocking — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- dick-heads — dick (def 3).
- dickcissel — a small North American bird (Spiza americana), the male of which has a yellow breast, a black patch on its throat, and a mainly grey head
- dickensian — of Charles Dickens or his works
- dicksucker — (vulgar slang) A person who fellates men.
- disc brake — a brake system in which a disc attached to a wheel is slowed by the friction of brake pads being pressed against the disc by a caliper.
- disfrocked — Simple past tense and past participle of disfrock.
- disk space — a number of bytes on a disk for the storage of data
- dock house — traditionally a building situated at the dock where a harbourmaster works and resides