10-letter words containing t, o, k, a
- matchbooks — Plural form of matchbook.
- matchlocks — Plural form of matchlock.
- matronlike — Like a matron; sedate; grave; matronly.
- matryoshka — Each of a set of brightly painted hollow wooden dolls of varying sizes, designed to nest inside one another.
- meat hooks — the hands or fists
- metalworks — Plural form of metalwork.
- milk float — a motor vehicle, usually battery powered, in which bottles or cartons of milk and other dairy products are delivered to homes by a daily or regular route.
- milk-toast — easily dominated; extremely mild; ineffectual; namby-pamby; wishy-washy.
- minnetonka — a city in E Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- mountebank — A person who deceives others, especially in order to trick them out of their money; a charlatan.
- muck about — moist farmyard dung, decaying vegetable matter, etc.; manure.
- nootka fir — (in the Pacific Northwest) Douglas fir.
- notchbacks — Plural form of notchback.
- notetaking — The practice of writing down pieces of information gained from a particular source, such as a lecture or presentation.
- nouakchott — Official name Islamic Republic of Mauritania. a republic in W Africa, largely in the Sahara Desert: formerly a French colony; a member of the French Community 1958–66; independent 1960. 418,120 sq. mi. (1,082,931 sq. km). Capital: Nouakchott.
- oak forest — a town in NE Illinois.
- oil tanker — a large ship specifically designed for transporting crude oil in bulk across the oceans.
- 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.
- ore tanker — a ship built to carry ore.
- out-basket — out-box.
- outflanked — Simple past tense and past participle of outflank.
- outranking — Present participle of outrank.
- outsparkle — to sparkle more brilliantly than
- overtaking — passing the vehicle in front
- packed out — If a place is packed out, it is very full of people.
- parrotlike — any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets.
- pastrycook — a person who makes pastry or pastries
- patchcocke — a clown
- piatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
- picketboat — a boat which keeps guard
- planktonic — the aggregate of passively floating, drifting, or somewhat motile organisms occurring in a body of water, primarily comprising microscopic algae and protozoa.
- pocket rat — kangaroo rat (sense 1)
- pocketable — small enough to be carried in one's pocket; pocket-size.
- pohutukawa — a myrtaceous New Zealand tree, Metrosideros excelsa, with red flowers and hard red wood
- polka dots — Polka dots are very small spots printed on a piece of cloth.
- poltoratsk — a city in and the capital of Turkmenistan, in the S central part, near the Iranian border.
- portakabin — A Portakabin is a small building that can be moved by truck and that can be used for a short period of time, for example as a temporary office.
- postattack — to set upon in a forceful, violent, hostile, or aggressive way, with or without a weapon; begin fighting with: He attacked him with his bare hands.
- 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.
- prokaryote — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- pyatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
- racked out — a framework of bars, wires, or pegs on which articles are arranged or deposited: a clothes rack; a luggage rack.
- rock plant — a plant found among rocks or in rock gardens.
- 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
- shackleton — Sir Ernest Henry, 1874–1922, English explorer of the Antarctic.
- shockstall — the loss of lift and increase of drag experienced by transonic aircraft when strong shock waves on the wings cause the airflow to separate from the wing surfaces
- shotmaking — the playing of good shots (by a sports player)
- 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.
- smokestack — Also called stack. a pipe for the escape of the smoke or gases of combustion, as on a steamboat, locomotive, or building.