10-letter words containing s, k, e, t, c
- dead-stick — designating a landing made by an aircraft or spacecraft without using power
- destocking — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- dockmaster — a person who supervises the dry-docking of ships.
- dry socket — a painful inflammatory infection of the bone and tissues at the site of an extracted tooth.
- 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.
- eye socket — Your eye sockets are the two hollow parts on either side of your face, where your eyeballs are.
- feedstocks — Plural form of feedstock.
- firetrucks — Plural form of firetruck.
- freckliest — Superlative form of freckly.
- fruitcakes — Plural form of fruitcake.
- goatsucker — nightjar (def 2).
- greenstick — A greenstick fracture.
- gutbuckets — Plural form of gutbucket.
- headstocks — Plural form of headstock.
- hitchhikes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hitchhike.
- 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.
- interlocks — Plural form of interlock.
- intershock — To shock mutually, as if by collision.
- interstock — a stock grafted between the understock and the scion.
- isokinetic — (biophysics) Relating to the force that a muscle applies during a limb movement at constant velocity.
- jacketless — Without a jacket (coat).
- jackstones — Plural form of jackstone.
- kenoticist — someone who believes in or supports the idea of kenosis
- kicksorter — a multichannel pulse-height analyser used esp to distinguish between isotopes by sorting their characteristic pulses (kicks)
- kinematics — the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.
- kineticism — the quality or state of being kinetic.
- kineticist — someone who studies kinetics
- kitschiest — Superlative form of kitschy.
- kitschness — the quality of being kitsch
- lackluster — lacking brilliance or radiance; dull: lackluster eyes.
- lacklustre — lacking brilliance or radiance; dull: lackluster eyes.
- leukocytes — white blood cell.
- lipsticked — Decorated with lipstick.
- lockmaster — one in charge of a canal lock
- lose track — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- lovestruck — Alternative spelling of love-struck.
- mckeesport — a city in SW Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.
- mesokurtic — (of a frequency distribution or its graphical representation) having the same kurtosis as the normal distribution.
- metrestick — a measuring stick one metre long
- neckcloths — Plural form of neckcloth.
- nitpickers — Plural form of nitpicker.
- open stock — merchandise, especially china, silverware, and glassware, sold in sets with additional individual pieces available from stock for future purchases, as for replacement.