10-letter words containing s, h, o, k
- 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
- intershock — To shock mutually, as if by collision.
- jockeyship — the art or skill of a jockey
- john jakes — John, born 1932, U.S. novelist.
- juke house — a cheap roadhouse.
- kalanchoes — Plural form of kalanchoe.
- katholikos — catholicos.
- keep house — a building in which people live; residence for human beings.
- ketohexose — any of a class of sugars composed of six carbon atoms and a ketone group, as fructose.
- khabarovsk — Formerly Far Eastern Region. a territory of the Russian Federation in NE Asia. 965,400 sq. mi. (2,500,400 sq. km).
- know-hows' — knowledge of how to do something; faculty or skill for a particular activity; expertise: Designing a computer requires a lot of know-how.
- kohlrabies — Plural form of kohlrabi.
- kok-saghyz — a central Asian dandelion, Taraxacum kok-saghyz, of the composite family, having fleshy roots that yield a rubberlike latex.
- korn shell — (ksh) A command interpreter for Unix.
- kronshtadt — city & naval fortress on an island in NW Russia, on the Gulf of Finland: pop. 45,000
- krummhorns — Plural form of krummhorn.
- kymographs — Plural form of kymograph.
- lakeshores — Plural form of lakeshore.
- loan shark — a person who lends money at excessively high rates of interest; usurer.
- lock horns — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- lockshield — (attributive) A kind of radiator valve used to balance the system by restricting the flow of water on the return side.
- locksmiths — Plural form of locksmith.
- lockstitch — A stitch made by a sewing machine by firmly linking together two threads or stitches.
- look sharp — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
- mackintosh — Charles Rennie [ren-ee] /ˈrɛn i/ (Show IPA), 1868–1928, Scottish architect and designer.
- matchbooks — Plural form of matchbook.