10-letter words containing s, o, a, k
- loan shark — a person who lends money at excessively high rates of interest; usurer.
- lockmaster — one in charge of a canal lock
- longs peak — a peak in N Colorado, in the Rocky Mountain National Park. 14,255 feet (4345 meters).
- 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.
- lookalikes — Plural form of lookalike.
- 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.
- lossmakers — Plural form of lossmaker.
- lossmaking — a business that consistently operates at a loss.
- loves park — a town in N Illinois.
- mackintosh — Charles Rennie [ren-ee] /ˈrɛn i/ (Show IPA), 1868–1928, Scottish architect and designer.
- 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.
- malinowski — Bronislaw Kasper [bron-uh-slahf kas-per;; Polish braw-nee-slahf kahs-puh r] /ˈbrɒn əˌslɑf ˈkæs pər;; Polish brɔˈni slɑf ˈkɑs pər/ (Show IPA), 1884–1942, Polish anthropologist in the U.S.
- markswoman — a woman skilled in shooting at a mark; a woman who shoots well.
- markswomen — Plural form of markswoman.
- maskalonge — muskellunge.
- maskinonge — muskellunge.
- maskirovka — the use, by Russia or the former Soviet Union, of military deception intended to confuse Western intelligence
- masterwork — masterpiece.
- matchbooks — Plural form of matchbook.
- matchlocks — Plural form of matchlock.
- 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.
- meat hooks — the hands or fists
- metalworks — Plural form of metalwork.
- 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.
- milk-toast — easily dominated; extremely mild; ineffectual; namby-pamby; wishy-washy.
- mollymawks — Plural form of mollymawk.
- monadnocks — Plural form of monadnock.
- moonrakers — Plural form of moonraker.
- mosaicking — a picture or decoration made of small, usually colored pieces of inlaid stone, glass, etc.
- mosaiclike — (arts) Resembling a mosaic, particularly in composition.
- moses lake — a city in central Washington, on the eastern shore of Moses Lake.
- mossbacked — Very conservative or reactionary, with old-fashioned views.
- mossbanker — A fish, the menhaden.
- noah's ark — the patriarch who built a ship (Noah's Ark) in which he, his family, and animals of every species survived the Flood. Gen. 5–9.
- noisemaker — a person or thing that makes noise, as a reveler on New Year's Eve, Halloween, etc., or a rattle, horn, or similar device used on such an occasion.
- nonspeaker — a person who does not or cannot speak
- notchbacks — Plural form of notchback.
- oak forest — a town in NE Illinois.
- oddsmakers — Plural form of oddsmaker.
- open-stack — having or being a system of library management in which patrons have direct access to stacks for browsing and selecting books; open-shelf.
- out-basket — out-box.
- outsparkle — to sparkle more brilliantly than
- pack-horse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
- pastrycook — a person who makes pastry or pastries
- 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
- piatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
- poison oak — either of two shrubs, Rhus toxicodendron, of the eastern U.S., or R. diversiloba, of the Pacific coast of North America, resembling poison ivy and causing severe dermatitis when touched by persons sensitive to them.
- polka dots — Polka dots are very small spots printed on a piece of cloth.