10-letter words containing y, a, k, o
- kymatology — The study of wave motion.
- kymographs — Plural form of kymograph.
- kymography — The use of a kymograph.
- leukopathy — (pathology) depigmentation of the skin.
- lokayatika — a member of the Lokayata school.
- make money — make a profit
- 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.
- 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.
- mollymawks — Plural form of mollymawk.
- moneymaker — a person engaged in or successful at acquiring much money.
- pastrycook — a person who makes pastry or pastries
- peacockery — proud or ostentatious display
- perikaryon — cell body.
- play hooky — play truant, be absent from school
- playbroker — play agent.
- 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.
- rekeyboard — to enter (information) again on a keyboard or other similar device
- rock candy — sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.
- rock hyrax — an African and Middle Eastern hyrax of the genus Procavia that lives in rocky places.
- rock spray — a low, evergreen, Himalayan shrub, Cotoneaster microphyllus, of the rose family, having shiny leaves with grayish, hairy undersides, white flowers, and scarlet berries.
- rock-candy — sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.
- rockabilly — a style of popular music combining the features of rock-'n'-roll and hillbilly music.
- royal duke — a duke who is also a royal prince, being a member of the royal family
- sandy hook — a peninsula in E New Jersey, at the entrance to lower New York Bay. 6 miles (10 km) long.
- shylockian — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
- stake body — an open truck body having a platform with sockets at the edge into which upright stakes may be placed to form a fence around a load.
- szymborska — Wislawa [vis-lah-vah] /vɪsˈlɑ vɑ/ (Show IPA), 1923–2012, Polish poet: Nobel prize 1996.
- turkey oak — any of several oaks, as Quercus cerris, of Eurasia, or Q. laevis and Q. incana, of the southern U.S., that grow on dry, sandy barrens.
- woollyback — a person who lives in a region near, but not in, Liverpool
- yellowback — (formerly) an inexpensive, often lurid, novel bound in yellow cloth or paper.
- yellowcake — a processed oxide of uranium, U 3 O 8 , extracted and concentrated from uranium ore: used as the raw material for commercial nuclear materials, especially fuel elements in nuclear reactors.
- yenakiyevo — a city in E Ukraine: suburb of Donetsk.
- yogyakarta — a city in central Java, in S Indonesia.
- yolk stalk — a tubular connection between the yolk sac and the embryonic gut in the developing embryo.
- youthquake — (informal) A noticeable shift in society or culture in response to the activities or tastes of younger members of the culture.