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10-letter words containing s, k, y

  • hollyhocks — Plural form of hollyhock.
  • hyperlinks — Plural form of hyperlink.
  • hyson skin — the inferior leaves of a Chinese green tea
  • hystericky — prone to or characterized by hysteria
  • jabotinsky — Vladimir, 1880–1940, Russian Zionist leader in Palestine.
  • jackassery — The foolish or obnoxious behaviour of a jackass.
  • jaywalkers — Plural form of jaywalker.
  • jockeyship — the art or skill of a jockey
  • kabalevsky — Dmitri [duh-mee-tree;; Russian dmyee-tryee] /dəˈmi tri;; Russian ˈdmyi tryi/ (Show IPA), 1904–1987, Russian composer.
  • karyograms — Plural form of karyogram.
  • karyolysis — the dissolution of a cell nucleus.
  • karyoplasm — nucleoplasm.
  • karyosomes — Plural form of karyosome.
  • karyotypes — Plural form of karyotype.
  • kerseymere — a heavily fulled woolen cloth constructed in twill weave and finished with a fine nap.
  • key escrow — (security)   A controversial arrangement where the keys needed to decrypt encrypted data must be held in escrow by a third party so that government agencies can obtain them to decrypt messages which they suspect to be relevant to national security.
  • keypunches — Plural form of keypunch.
  • keyserling — Hermann Alexander [her-mahn ah-le-ksahn-duh r] /ˈhɛr mɑn ˌɑ lɛˈksɑn dər/ (Show IPA), Count, 1880–1946, German philosopher and writer.
  • keystrokes — Plural form of keystroke.
  • kissy-face — affectionate kissing; necking: playing kissy-face.
  • kitakyushu — a seaport on N Kyushu, in S Japan: formed in 1963 by the merger of five cities (Kokura, Moji, Tobata, Wakamatsu, and Yawata)
  • klendusity — (in plants) the ability to resist disease
  • kok-saghyz — a central Asian dandelion, Taraxacum kok-saghyz, of the composite family, having fleshy roots that yield a rubberlike latex.
  • kovalevsky — Sonia [sohn-yuh] /ˈsoʊn yə/ (Show IPA), (Sofia Vasilievna Kovalevskaya) 1850–91, Russian mathematician.
  • kshatriyas — Plural form of kshatriya.
  • kymographs — Plural form of kymograph.
  • kyrgyzstan — official name of Kirghizia.
  • lackadaisy — alas
  • lake nyasa — a lake in central Africa at the S end of the Great Rift Valley: the third largest lake in Africa, drained by the Shire River into the Zambezi. Area: about 28 500 sq km (11 000 sq miles)
  • leukocytes — white blood cell.
  • like sixty — a cardinal number, ten times six.
  • lucklessly — In a luckless way.
  • lyre snake — any of several mildly venomous colubrid snakes of the genus Trimorphodon, inhabiting rocky areas from the southwestern U.S. to Central America, having fangs in the rear of the upper jaw and a lyre-shaped marking on the head.
  • lysenkoism — a genetic doctrine formulated by Lysenko and asserting that acquired characteristics are inheritable.
  • malinovsky — Rodion Yakovlevich [ruh-dyi-awn yah-kuh-vlyi-vyich] /rə dyɪˈɔn ˈyɑ kə vlyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1898–1967, Russian army officer: minister of defense of the U.S.S.R. 1957–67.
  • master key — a key that will open a number of different locks, the proper keys of which are not interchangeable.
  • matryoshka — Each of a set of brightly painted hollow wooden dolls of varying sizes, designed to nest inside one another.
  • mayakovski — Vladimir Vladimirovich [vlad-uh-meer vlad-uh-meer-uh-vich;; Russian vluh-dyee-myir vluh-dyee-myi-ruh-vyich] /ˈvlæd əˌmɪər ˌvlæd əˈmɪər əˌvɪtʃ;; Russian vlʌˈdyi myɪr vlʌˈdyi myɪ rə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1930, Russian poet.
  • miaskovsky — Nikolai Yakovlevich [nik-uh-lahy;; Russian nyi-kuh-lahy yuh-kaw-vlyuh-vyich] /ˈnɪk əˌlaɪ;; Russian nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ yʌˈkɔ vlyə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1881–1950, Russian composer.
  • mistakably — In a mistakable manner.
  • mistakenly — wrongly conceived, held, or done: a mistaken antagonism.
  • mks system — The mks system is the metric system in which the meter, kilogram, and the second are the fundamental units.
  • mollymawks — Plural form of mollymawk.
  • mussorgsky — Modest Petrovich [moh-dest pi-troh-vich;; Russian muh-dyest pyi-traw-vyich] /moʊˈdɛst pɪˈtroʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian mʌˈdyɛst pyɪˈtrɔ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Moussorgsky, Modest Petrovich.
  • myslivecek — Josef [yaw-zef] /ˈyɔ zɛf/ (Show IPA), 1737–81, Czech composer.
  • mythmakers — Plural form of mythmaker.
  • newsweekly — a newsmagazine or newspaper published weekly.
  • non-sticky — having the property of adhering, as glue; adhesive.
  • ollycrocks — Plural form of ollycrock.
  • pastrycook — a person who makes pastry or pastries
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