10-letter words containing ok
- choke down — to swallow with difficulty
- choke-full — chock-full.
- choke-hold — a restraining hold in which one person encircles the neck of another in a viselike grip with the arm, usually approaching from behind: The suspect was put in a chokehold and was gasping for breath.
- chokeberry — any of various North American rosaceous shrubs of the genus Aronia
- chokeholds — Plural form of chokehold.
- chokepoint — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
- class book — a book published by members of a school or college class, containing pictures of students and teachers, an account of student activities, etc.
- cokebottle — (character, humour) /kohk'bot-l/ Any unusual character, particularly one you can't type because it isn't on your keyboard. MIT people used to complain about the "control-meta-cokebottle" commands at SAIL, and SAIL people complained about the "altmode-altmode-cokebottle" commands at MIT. After the demise of the space-cadet keyboard, "cokebottle" was used less, but was often used to describe weird or non-intuitive keystrokes. The OSF/Motif window manager, "mwm" keystroke for switching to the default keybindings and behaviour is control-meta-bang. Since exclamation mark might be thought to look like a Coke bottle, Motif hackers referred to this keystroke as "cokebottle". See also quadruple bucky.
- comic book — A comic book is a magazine that contains stories told in pictures.
- cook inlet — an inlet of the Pacific on the coast of S Alaska: part of the Gulf of Alaska
- cook-chill — a method of food preparation used by caterers, in which cooked dishes are chilled rapidly and reheated as required
- cookeville — a town in central Tennessee.
- cookie jar — a jar or other container for storing cookies.
- cookieless — Without cookies (the food).
- cookstoves — Plural form of cookstove.
- coursebook — a book studied on an educational course
- crooked on — hostile or averse to
- crookedest — Superlative form of crooked.
- crookesite — a rare mineral, selenide of copper, thallium, and silver, (Cu, Tl, Ag) 2 Se, occurring in steel-gray, compact masses.
- crooknecks — Plural form of crookneck.
- cytokinins — Plural form of cytokinin.
- devil book — (publication) "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD Unix Operating System", by Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels, and John S. Quarterman (Addison-Wesley Publishers, 1989, ISBN 0-201-06196-1). The standard reference book on the internals of BSD Unix. So called because the cover has a picture depicting a little devil (a visual play on daemon) in sneakers, holding a pitchfork (referring to one of the characteristic features of Unix, the "fork(2)" system call).
- dirty joke — vulgar piece of humour
- dirty look — face: resentful expression
- donnybrook — an inordinately wild fight or contentious dispute; brawl; free-for-all.
- dough hook — an attachment for a food processor or electric mixer, for kneading dough.
- dough-hook — an attachment for an electric mixer that kneads dough
- downlooked — having a sad or dejected appearance
- downstroke — a downward stroke, as of a machine part, piston, or the like.
- draw poker — a variety of poker in which a player is dealt five cards and, after an initial bet, may discard usually up to three of these cards and receive replacements from the dealer.
- dream book — a book, pamphlet, etc., that lists common dreams and purports to interpret them, especially in regard to their meaning for the future.
- facebooker — A person using the social networking website Facebook.
- flat broke — having no money
- frithsoken — (from Old English) a refuge; a sanctuary
- funny book — comic book.
- gadzookery — the use or overuse of period-specific or archaic expressions, as in a historical novel: Without any gadzookery and its excessive use of “forsooth,” “prithee,” etc., her first historical novel conveys a superb sense of the period.
- gas cooker — cooking stove that runs on gas
- geokinesis — (parapsychology) The ability to manipulate the movement of minerals in the earth using supposed psychic powers.
- gift token — a piece of paper to a specified value, given as a present, that can be exchanged for goods (such as books, DVDs, toiletries, etc) in a shop
- good looks — personal attractiveness or beauty
- gorge hook — a fishhook with two barbed prongs; a hook made by fastening two hooks back to back at the shanks.
- grade book — a book in which a student's grades are recorded
- green book — 1.
Informal name for one of the four standard references on PostScript. The other three official guides are known as the Blue Book, the Red Book, and the White Book. 2. (publication) Informal name for one of the three standard references on SmallTalk. Also associated with blue and red books. 3. The "X/Open Compatibility Guide", which defines an international standard Unix environment that is a proper superset of POSIX/SVID. It also includes descriptions of a standard utility toolkit, systems administrations features, and the like. This grimoire is taken with particular seriousness in Europe. See Purple Book. 4. The IEEE 1003.1 POSIX Operating Systems Interface standard has been dubbed "The Ugly Green Book". 5. Any of the 1992 standards issued by the ITU-T's tenth plenary assembly. These include, among other things, the dreadful X.400 electronic mail standard and the Group 1 through 4 fax standards. 6. Green Book CD-ROM. See also book titles. - grimlooked — having a grim appearance
- guest book — (web) The electronic equivalent of the physical notebooks found in some small hotels, in which visitors can write their names, comments and suggestions for the benefit of the proprietors and future visitors or purely for posterity. The electronic version is a form on a website into which users can enter similar details for display on the site.
- guidebooks — Plural form of guidebook.
- handstroke — the downward movement of the bell rope as the bell swings around allowing the ringer to grasp and pull it
- heartbroke — heartbroken
- heatstroke — a disturbance of the temperature-regulating mechanisms of the body caused by overexposure to excessive heat, resulting in fever, hot and dry skin, and rapid pulse, sometimes progressing to delirium and coma.
- hectokilo- — one hundred thousand; the factor 105