10-letter words containing w, c, k
- crosswalks — Plural form of crosswalk.
- crowkeeper — a person who guards crops from crows
- deck watch — (on a ship) a precision watch used on deck for navigational purposes to avoid disturbing the chronometer.
- dockworker — a person employed on the docks of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
- duckwalked — Simple past tense and past participle of duckwalk.
- glowsticks — Plural form of glowstick.
- grasswrack — any of several perennial submerged marine plants of the genus Zostera; eelgrass
- hit wicket — an instance of a batsman breaking the wicket with the bat or a part of the body while playing a stroke and so being out
- jabberwock — a playful imitation of language consisting of invented, meaningless words; nonsense; gibberish.
- jack towel — a long towel with the ends sewed together, for hanging on a roller.
- jackscrews — Plural form of jackscrew.
- jackstraws — one of a group of strips of wood or similar objects, as straws or toothpicks, used in the game of jackstraws.
- jacky howe — (formerly) a sleeveless flannel shirt worn by sheep shearers
- keep watch — observe, maintain a vigil
- 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.
- killswitch — Alternative spelling of kill switch.
- knackwurst — a short, thick, highly seasoned sausage.
- knock down — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
- knockdowns — Plural form of knockdown.
- knockwurst — knackwurst.
- lackawanna — a city in W New York, on Lake Erie, near Buffalo.
- low-necked — (of a dress or other garment) cut low so as to leave the neck and shoulders exposed; décolleté.
- low-ticket — having a relatively low price: a growing market for low-ticket items.
- lower back — lumbar region
- lower deck — the lowermost deck in a hull having two or three decks.
- mankiewicz — Joseph L(eo) 1909–1993, U.S. motion-picture director, producer, and writer.
- markiewicz — Constance, Countess, original name Constance Gore-Booth. 1868–1927, Irish nationalist, married to a Polish count. She fought in the Easter Rising (1916) and was sentenced to death but reprieved. The first woman elected to the British parliament (1918), she refused to take her seat
- mickiewicz — Adam [ah-dahm] /ˈɑ dɑm/ (Show IPA), 1798–1855, Polish poet.
- mid-wicket — the fielding position on the on side, approximately midway between square leg and mid-on
- mower deck — cutter deck.
- narrowback — a person of slight build who is unfit for hard labor.
- paddywhack — Informal. a spanking.
- pawnticket — a ticket or receipt for a pawned item
- peckerwood — Midland and Southern U.S. woodpecker.
- pickleworm — the larva of a pyralid moth, Diaphania nitidalis, that bores into the stem and fruit of squash, cucumber, and other cucurbitaceous plants.
- power pack — a device for converting the voltage from a power line or battery to the various voltages required by the components of an electronic circuit.
- quick draw — a game or competition in which the winner is the quickest person to draw a handgun from a holster and sometimes to fire it and hit a target.
- quickwater — the part of a river or other stream having a strong current.
- racewalker — a person who participates in racewalking
- scharwenka — (Ludwig) Philipp [loot-vikh fee-lip] /ˈlut vɪx ˈfi lɪp/ (Show IPA), 1847–1917, German composer.
- schoolwork — the material studied in or for school, comprising homework and work done in class.
- screw hook — a hook having a shank in the form of a screw.
- screw jack — jackscrew.
- scrollwork — decorative work in which scroll forms figure prominently.
- 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.
- smack down — to humble or reprimand (someone who is overstepping bounds)
- space walk — When an astronaut goes on a space walk, he or she leaves the spacecraft and works outside it while floating in space.
- stick down — seal with an adhesive
- stick with — not vary or deviate from
- stitchwork — embroidery or needlework.