10-letter words containing s, k, e, o
- overstruck — to stamp a new device, value, or inscription on (a coin).
- pack-horse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
- 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.
- pick holes — If you pick holes in an argument or theory, you find weak points in it so that it is no longer valid.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.
- pokerishly — in a pokerish manner
- 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.
- proskomide — prothesis (def 2a).
- rackabones — 'a rack of bones', a metaphor for a person or animal that is very thin or emaciated
- 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 snake — any large Australasian python of the genus Liasis
- sailorlike — resembling a sailor
- scene dock — dock1 (def 7).
- 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.
- 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
- sex worker — prostitution.
- shackleton — Sir Ernest Henry, 1874–1922, English explorer of the Antarctic.
- shadowlike — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- shake down — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
- shake-down — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
- shellshock — loss of sight, memory, etc, resulting from psychological strain during prolonged engagement in warfare
- sherbrooke — a city in S Quebec, in SE Canada.
- shevchenko — Taras Grigoryevich [Russian tah-ruh s gryi-gawr-yi-vyich] /Russian ˈtɑ rəs gryɪˈgɔr yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1814–61, Ukrainian national poet.
- shock tube — an apparatus in which a gas is heated to very high temperatures by means of a shock wave, usually for spectroscopic investigation of the natures and reactions of the resulting radicals and excited molecules
- shock wave — a region of abrupt change of pressure and density moving as a wave front at or above the velocity of sound, caused by an intense explosion or supersonic flow over a body.
- shock-test — to test (equipment or matériel) for resistance to sudden impact or stress.
- shopkeeper — a retail merchant or tradesman; a person who owns or operates a small store or shop.
- shopwalker — a floorwalker.
- shore lark — a bird: Eremophila alpestris
- sidestroke — a stroke in which the body is turned sideways in the water, the hands pull alternately, and the legs perform a scissors kick.
- siegeworks — constructions built by a besieging force
- silkgrower — a person who breeds silkworms for their silk
- silverwork — fine or decorative work executed in silver.
- skate over — to cross on or as if on skates
- skateboard — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
- skeletonic — resembling a skeleton
- sketch out — describe briefly
- sketchbook — Also, sketchpad. a book or pad of drawing paper for sketches.
- skeuomorph — an ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques, as an imitation metal rivet mark found on handles of prehistoric pottery.
- skewerwood — the spindle tree, Euonymus europaeus.
- ski resort — place with skiing facilities
- skimmerton — shivaree (def 1).
- skytrooper — a paratrooper.
- sleekstone — a stone used for polishing
- slide knot — a knot formed by making two half hitches on the standing part of the rope, the second hitch being next to the loop, which can be tightened.