10-letter words containing s, e, c, k
- dockmaster — a person who supervises the dry-docking of ships.
- doodlesack — bagpipe (def 1).
- doohickeys — Plural form of doohickey.
- dreadlocks — a hair style, especially among Rastafarians, in which the hair is worn in long, ropelike locks.
- dry socket — a painful inflammatory infection of the bone and tissues at the site of an extracted tooth.
- duck press — a cooked duck sprinkled with red wine and then pressed in a device (duck press) so that the juices can be collected and served as a sauce over the breast meat and legs.
- duck-shove — to evade responsibility (for)
- duckshover — one who duckshoves, jumps a queue; cheats
- dustjacket — Alternative form of dust jacket.
- dusty deck — Old software (especially applications) which one is obliged to remain compatible with, or to maintain. DP types call this "legacy code", a term hackers consider smarmy and excessively reverent. The term implies that the software in question is a holdover from card-punch days. Used especially when referring to old scientific and number crunching software, much of which was written in Fortran and very poorly documented but is believed to be too expensive to replace. See fossil; compare crawling horror.
- dyskinetic — difficulty or abnormality in performing voluntary muscular movements.
- ekphrastic — Pertaining to ekphrasis; clear, lucid.
- escape key — a key on a computer keyboard used to leave a computer-program sequence before its end, in order to commence another sequence
- eye socket — Your eye sockets are the two hollow parts on either side of your face, where your eyeballs are.
- fecklessly — In a feckless manner.
- feedstocks — Plural form of feedstock.
- fickleness — Changeability, especially as regards one's loyalties or affections.
- firebricks — Plural form of firebrick.
- firetrucks — Plural form of firetruck.
- flarebacks — Plural form of flareback.
- flyspeck 3 — (humour) A standard name for any font that is so tiny as to be unreadable, by analogy with names like "Helvetica 10" for 10-point Helvetica. Legal boilerplate is usually printed in Flyspeck 3.
- flyspecked — Covered with flyspecks.
- foreshocks — Plural form of foreshock.
- freckliest — Superlative form of freckly.
- fruitcakes — Plural form of fruitcake.
- gas cooker — cooking stove that runs on gas
- goatsucker — nightjar (def 2).
- gobsmacked — utterly astounded; astonished.
- goosenecks — Plural form of gooseneck.
- greenbacks — Plural form of greenback.
- greenstick — A greenstick fracture.
- gutbuckets — Plural form of gutbucket.
- hack house — Falconry. a shed where young hawks are kept and fed while at hack.
- hackamores — Plural form of hackamore.
- hackensack — a city in NE New Jersey, near New York City.
- hackeysack — A non-competition sport in which a small sack, or
- hamesucken — the offence of attacking a person in his or her own dwelling
- hamshackle — to hobble (a cow, horse, etc) by tying a rope around the head and one of the legs
- haversacks — Plural form of haversack.
- headstocks — Plural form of headstock.
- hicksville — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- hitchhikes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hitchhike.
- 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.
- house dick — house detective.
- huckstered — Simple past tense and past participle of huckster.
- hucksterer — huckster.
- huckstress — A female huckster.
- hystericky — prone to or characterized by hysteria
- ice skater — An ice skater is someone who skates on ice.
- insectlike — Resembling an insect in any of various attributes such as form, behavior, or sound.