10-letter words that end in k
- crosscheck — to verify (a fact, report, etc) by considering conflicting opinions or consulting other sources
- crude tank — A crude tank is a large vessel for crude oil.
- cruikshank — George. 1792–1878, English illustrator and caricaturist
- cube steak — a thin slice of beef that has been tenderized by being cubed
- cutty sark — a three-masted merchant clipper built in Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869, now kept as a museum ship at Greenwich, London; badly damaged by a fire in 2007; restored then reopened in 2012
- cycle rack — a series of metal frameworks standing on the ground for holding bicycles upright
- cypherpunk — A person who uses encryption when accessing a computer network in order to ensure privacy, especially from government authorities.
- dead stock — farm equipment
- dead-stick — designating a landing made by an aircraft or spacecraft without using power
- death mask — A death mask is a model of someone's face, which is made from a mould that was taken of their face soon after they died.
- decoy duck — a duck, or an image of one, used to lure other ducks into a trap or within shooting range
- desert oak — a tree, Casuarina decaisneana, of Central and NW Australia, the timber of which is resistant to termite attack
- desk check — (programming) To grovel over hardcopy of source code, mentally simulating the control flow; a method of catching bugs. No longer common practice in this age of on-screen editing, fast compiles, and sophisticated debuggers - though some maintain stoutly that it ought to be. Compare dry run, eyeball search, vdiff, vgrep.
- desk clerk — A desk clerk is someone who works at the main desk in a hotel.
- 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).
- dieselpunk — A postmodern genre of art as well as a budding subculture that combines the aesthetics of the interbellum period through World War II and ending circa 1950s (a range of time often referred to as the \u201cdiesel era\u201d by the dieselpunk community) with contemporary creations.
- diet drink — a type of drink, usually a version of an existing drink, that is marketed as being good for slimmers because it is low in calories
- diplospeak — the polite and placatory language usually associated with diplomats
- dirt track — a track with an unsealed surface
- dirty look — face: resentful expression
- dirty work — disagreeable, often tedious tasks.
- disk crank — a crank having the form of a disk with a crankpin mounted off-center.
- distelfink — a stylized bird motif traditional in Pennsylvania German art.
- ditto mark — Often, ditto marks. two small marks (″) indicating the repetition of something, usually placed beneath the thing repeated.
- djaja peak — mountain in West Irian, W New Guinea: c. 16,500 ft (5,029 m)
- donkeywork — Informal. tedious, repetitious work; drudgery.
- donnybrook — an inordinately wild fight or contentious dispute; brawl; free-for-all.
- doodlesack — bagpipe (def 1).
- door check — a device, usually hydraulic or pneumatic, for controlling the closing of a door and preventing it from slamming.
- 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
- down quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 0.005 to 0.015 GeV/c2, a negative charge that is 1⁄3 the charge of an electron, zero charm, and zero strangeness
- draft mark — any of a series of figures or marks at the stem or stern of a vessel indicating the distance vertically from the lowermost part of the hull.
- drawn work — ornamental work done by drawing threads from a fabric, the remaining portions usually being formed into lacelike patterns by needlework.
- dream book — a book, pamphlet, etc., that lists common dreams and purports to interpret them, especially in regard to their meaning for the future.
- dried milk — dehydrated milk from which about 95 percent of the moisture has been evaporated.
- drillstock — a device for holding a drill.
- drop black — carbon, as animal black or lampblack, formed into pellets by mixing with water or glue: used as a black pigment.
- drudgework — work that is menial and tedious and therefore distasteful; drudgery.
- drunk tank — a large jail cell where persons arrested for drunkenness are kept, usually overnight.
- dual-stack — (networking) A term used to describe a network node running both IPv4 and IPv6 protocol stacks (or possibly others) at the same time. Such a machine can act as a protocol converter between the two networks. A node without dual-stack support can relay traffic in a protocol it does not support natively by use of tunnelling.
- dumb cluck — a stupid person.
- dumbstruck — temporarily deprived of the power of speech, as by surprise or confusion; dumbfounded.
- dump truck — a usually open-topped truck having a body that can be tilted to discharge its contents, as sand or gravel, through an open tailgate.
- dunderfunk — a combination of ship's biscuit and molasses that is baked
- dusty deck — Old software (especially applications) which one is obliged to remain compatible with, or to maintain. DP types call this "legacy code", a term hackers consider smarmy and excessively reverent. The term implies that the software in question is a holdover from card-punch days. Used especially when referring to old scientific and number crunching software, much of which was written in Fortran and very poorly documented but is believed to be too expensive to replace. See fossil; compare crawling horror.
- dzerzhinsk — a city in the central Russian Federation in Europe, W of Nizhni Novgorod.
- eagle-hawk — a large aggressive Australian eagle, Aquila audax
- eccentrick — Obsolete form of eccentric.
- echo check — a quality check and error-control technique for data transferred over a computer network or other communications link, in which the data received is stored and also transmitted back to its point of origin, where it is compared with the original data.