10-letter words containing a, b, k
- housebreak — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- humpbacked — having a hump on the back.
- hunchbacks — Plural form of hunchback.
- icebreaker — Nautical. a ship specially built for breaking navigable passages through ice.
- in back of — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
- inbreaking — The act of breaking in; incursion; invasion; inroad.
- jabberwock — a playful imitation of language consisting of invented, meaningless words; nonsense; gibberish.
- jabotinsky — Vladimir, 1880–1940, Russian Zionist leader in Palestine.
- jack benny — Jack (Benjamin Kubelsky) 1894–1974, U.S. comedian.
- jack block — a block used in raising or lowering a topgallant yard.
- jack kilby — (person) (1924 - 2005-06-20) The electronics engineer who invented the integrated circuit in 1958 at Texas Instruments.
- jackbooted — wearing jackboots.
- jackrabbit — resembling a jack rabbit, as in suddenness or rapidity of movement: The car made a jackrabbit start when the traffic light turned green.
- jailbreaks — Plural form of jailbreak.
- jailbroken — an escape from prison, especially by forcible means.
- jawbreaker — Informal. a word that is hard to pronounce.
- job market — the total number of vacant jobs open to those seeking employment.
- jumbo pack — a very large pack. Used mainly in advertising and in the names of products
- kabalevsky — Dmitri [duh-mee-tree;; Russian dmyee-tryee] /dəˈmi tri;; Russian ˈdmyi tryi/ (Show IPA), 1904–1987, Russian composer.
- kabalistic — cabalistic.
- kabaragoya — The water monitor, Varanus salvator, a large lizard of Southeast Asia.
- kalaburagi — a city in Karnataka state, in S central India.
- kapfenberg — an industrial town in E Austria, in Styria. Pop: 22 234 (2001)
- kariba dam — dam on the Zambezi River, on the Zambian-Zimbabwean border: 420 ft (128 m) high: it has created a lake (Kariba Lake), 2,000 sq mi (5,180 sq km)
- katabolism — Alternative form of catabolism.
- kenophobia — an abnormal fear of empty spaces
- keyboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of keyboard.
- keyboarder — One who keyboards; a typist.
- khabarovsk — Formerly Far Eastern Region. a territory of the Russian Federation in NE Asia. 965,400 sq. mi. (2,500,400 sq. km).
- kick about — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- kickboards — Plural form of kickboard.
- king cobra — a cobra, Ophiophagus hannah, of southeastern Asia and the East Indies, that grows to a length of more than 15 feet (5 meters): the largest of the venomous snakes.
- kitambilla — a shrub or small tree, Dovyalis hebecarpa, of India and Sri Lanka, having velvety, maroon-purple fruit.
- kitembilla — a shrub or small tree, Dovyalis hebecarpa, of India and Sri Lanka, having velvety, maroon-purple fruit.
- klaberjass — a card game played with a 32-card pack, made by removing all cards below the sevens from a regular 52-card pack, in which scoring values are assigned to certain cards taken in tricks, to sequences in the same suit, to the king and queen of trumps, and to the last trick.
- klangfarbe — instrumental timbre or tone colour
- klebsiella — any of several rod-shaped, aerobic bacteria of the genus Klebsiella, certain species of which, as K. pneumoniae, are found in the respiratory, intestinal, and genitourinary tracts of humans and animals and are sometimes pathogenic.
- knackebrod — flat, thin, brittle unleavened rye bread.
- knee brace — a diagonal member for bracing the angle between two joined members, as a stud or column and a joist or rafter, being joined to each partway along its length.
- knob latch — a latch having a spring bolt controlled by a knob on one or both sides.
- knock back — 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.
- knockabout — Nautical. any of various fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessels having a single jib bent to a stay from the stemhead, no bowsprit being used: usually rigged as a sloop.
- knockbacks — Plural form of knockback.
- kohlrabies — Plural form of kohlrabi.
- koobi fora — an archaeological locality on the northeastern side of Lake Rudolf, in northern Kenya, yielding important early hominid fossils and some of the oldest hominid areas with stone tools, bone food waste, and possible evidence of fire use, dating from one to two million years ago.
- kookaburra — an Australian kingfisher, Dacelo gigas, having a loud, harsh cry that resembles laughter.
- kota bharu — a state in Malaysia, on the central Malay Peninsula. 5750 sq. mi. (14,893 sq. km). Capital: Kota Bharu.
- koulibiaca — A Russian dish of salmon, rice etc. cooked in puff pastry.
- kubla khan — (italics) a poetic fragment (1797) by Coleridge.
- kumbh mela — a Hindu festival held once every twelve years in one of four sacred sites, where bathing for purification from sin is considered especially efficacious