9-letter words containing a, b, k, n
- bar snack — a light quick meal, such as a sandwich or pie, served in a bar
- bartokian — characteristic of the music of Béla Bartók: driving, percussive, Bartokian rhythm.
- basinlike — resembling a basin
- batu khan — d. 1255, Mongol conqueror: leader of the Golden Horde (grandson of Genghis Khan).
- baulkline — a straight line across a billiard table behind which the cue balls are placed at the start of a game
- beanstalk — the stem of a bean plant
- bearskins — Plural form of bearskin.
- benchmark — A benchmark is something whose quality or quantity is known and which can therefore be used as a standard with which other things can be compared.
- berdyansk — a city in S Ukraine, on the Sea of Azov.
- bethankit — (used as part of a grace spoken before a meal) God be thanked!
- bike lane — A bike lane is a part of the road which is intended to be used only by people riding bicycles.
- black bun — a very rich dark fruitcake, usually in a pastry case
- black run — an extremely difficult run, suitable for expert skiers
- blackband — a type of iron carbonate
- blackburn — a city in NW England, in Blackburn with Darwen unitary authority, Lancashire: formerly important for textiles, now has mixed industries. Pop: 105 085 (2001)
- blackened — having been cooked until a very dark or black colour
- blackener — someone who blackens
- blackland — an area of dark peaty soil
- blackness — Blackness is the state of being very dark.
- blacktown — a city in New South Wales, SE Australia, near Sydney.
- blank out — If you blank out a particular feeling or thought, you do not allow yourself to experience that feeling or to have that thought.
- blankbook — a book containing blank pages, as a notebook or sketchbook.
- bleakness — bare, desolate, and often windswept: a bleak plain.
- boat neck — a high slitlike neckline of a garment that extends onto the shoulders
- boneblack — a black residue from the destructive distillation of bones, containing about 10 per cent carbon and 80 per cent calcium phosphate, used as a decolorizing agent and pigment
- bookstand — a cradle for holding an open book so that it may be read comfortably
- bracknell — a town in SE England, in Bracknell Forest unitary authority, Berkshire, designated a new town in 1949. Pop: 70 795 (2001)
- brainfuck — (language) An eight-instruction esoteric programming language created by Urban Müller. His goal was apparently to create a Turing-complete language with the smallest compiler ever, for the Amiga OS 2.0. He eventually reduced his compiler to under 200 bytes. A Brainfuck program has a pointer that moves within an array of 30000 bytes, initially all set to zero. The pointer initially points to the beginning of this array. The language has eight commands, each of which is represented as a single character, and which can be expressed in terms of C as follows: > ==> ++p; < ==> --p; + ==> ++*p; - ==> --*p; . ==> putchar(*p); , ==> *p = getchar(); [ ==> while (*p) { ] ==> } Brian Raiter's Brainfuck page.
- brainsick — relating to or caused by insanity; crazy; mad
- brainwork — intellectual effort
- brake van — the coach or vehicle from which the guard applies the brakes; guard's van
- brake-van — the caboose of a railway train.
- brakesman — a pithead winch operator
- breakdown — The breakdown of something such as a relationship, plan, or discussion is its failure or ending.
- breakeven — the level of commercial activity at which the total cost and total revenue of a business enterprise are equal
- breakneck — If you say that something happens or travels at breakneck speed, you mean that it happens or travels very fast.
- buck bean — a bog plant, Menyanthes trifoliata, of the gentian family, having narrow clusters of white or pink flowers.
- bullsnake — an American burrowing snake
- bunkerage — the act of bunkering a vessel.
- burkinabé — of or relating to Burkina Faso or its inhabitants
- canebrake — a thicket of canes
- canebreak — Alternative spelling of canebrake.
- cantabank — an itinerant singer
- carbunkle — Misspelling of carbuncle.
- cloudbank — Alternative form of cloud bank.
- clydebank — a town in W Scotland, in West Dunbartonshire on the north bank of the River Clyde. Pop: 29 858 (2001)
- countback — a system of deciding the winner of a tied competition by comparing earlier points or scores
- cranbrook — a city in SE British Columbia, in SW Canada.
- cryobanks — Plural form of cryobank.
- data bank — A data bank is the same as a database.