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11-letter words containing a, b, k

  • ban ki-moon — born 1944, South Korean international civil servant; secretary-general of the United Nations from 2007
  • banana skin — The thick yellow or green covering of a banana is called a banana skin.
  • banded pack — two products which are held together with a band and sold together at a discounted price
  • bandkeramik — the pottery of the early Neolithic Danubian culture of Europe, having characteristic parallel spiral lines over the body and neck of the gourdlike vessels and dated 5000–4000 b.c.
  • banjo clock — a clock of the early 19th century in the U.S., having a drumlike case for the dial mounted on a narrow, tapering body, with a boxlike bottom containing the pendulum and its weight.
  • bank robber — someone who steals from a bank, often using violence
  • bankability — acceptable for processing by a bank: bankable checks and money orders.
  • banking 2.0 — a name given to several radical departures from the traditional model of banking, esp the use of communications technology to facilitate lending between individuals
  • banking pin — either of two pins for damping or halting the oscillation, in either direction, of a balance or lever.
  • bankrolling — Present participle of bankroll.
  • bankrupting — Present participle of bankrupt.
  • bannockburn — a village in central Scotland, south of Stirling: nearby is the site of a victory (1314) of the Scots, led by Robert the Bruce, over the English. Pop: 7396 (2001)
  • bantam work — Coromandel work.
  • barebacking — sexual intercourse performed without the use of a condom
  • bareknuckle — (of a prizefight, prizefighter, etc.) without boxing gloves; using the bare fists.
  • barge spike — a square spike with a chisel point.
  • bark beetle — any small beetle of the family Scolytidae, which bore tunnels in the bark and wood of trees, causing great damage. They are closely related to the weevils
  • barking mad — If you say that someone is barking mad, you mean that they are insane or are acting very strangely.
  • barley sack — a burlap bag.
  • barrel knot — a knot for fastening together two strands of gut or nylon, as fishing lines or leaders.
  • baryshnikov — Mikhail. born 1948, Soviet-born ballet dancer, who defected (1974) to the West while on tour with the Kirov Ballet: director (1980–90) of the American Ballet Theatre
  • bashibazouk — (in the 19th century) one of a group of irregular Turkish soldiers notorious for their brutality
  • basingstoke — a town in S England, in N Hampshire. Pop: 90 171 (2001)
  • baskerville — a style of type
  • basket case — If someone describes a country or organization as a basket case, they mean that its economy or finances are in a seriously bad state.
  • basket fern — a small, compact fern, Nephrolepis pectinata, of tropical America, often grown in hanging baskets.
  • basket fish — basket star.
  • basket hilt — a hilt fitted to a broadsword, with a generally padded basket-shaped guard to protect the hand
  • basket star — any echinoderm of the class Ophiuroidea, especially of the genus Gorgonocephalus, having long, slender, branching arms.
  • basket-star — any of several echinoderms of the genus Gorgonocephalus, in which long slender arms radiate from a central disc: order Ophiuroidea (brittle-stars)
  • basketballs — Plural form of basketball.
  • basketmaker — A person who makes baskets.
  • basketweave — a weave of two or more yarns together, resembling that of a basket, esp in wool or linen fabric
  • bateau neck — boat neck.
  • beaker folk — a prehistoric people thought to have originated in the Iberian peninsula and spread to central Europe and Britain during the second millennium bc
  • beaky-nosed — having a nose that is large, pointed, or hooked
  • bear market — A bear market is a situation on the stock market when people are selling a lot of shares because they expect that the shares will decrease in value and that they will be able to make a profit by buying them again after a short time. Compare bull market.
  • beauty mark — A beauty mark is a small, dark spot on the skin that is supposed to add to a woman's beauty.
  • beaverbrook — 1st Baron, title of William Maxwell Aitken. 1879–1964, British newspaper proprietor and Conservative politician, born in Canada, whose newspapers included the Daily Express; minister of information (1918); minister of aircraft production (1940–41)
  • beavercreek — a town in SW Ohio.
  • beckenbauer — Franz. born 1945, German footballer: team captain when West Germany won the World Cup (1974): manager of West Germany (1984–90), coaching the team to success in the 1990 World Cup
  • before dark — If you do something before dark, you do it before the sun sets and night begins.
  • bell beaker — a bell-shaped beaker, especially one associated with the Beaker folk.
  • bethel park — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
  • bikini scar — a horizontal scar on the lower abdomen in the area where a bikini would be worn, usually resulting from a Caesarean section.
  • bikram yoga — a form of yoga in which traditional exercises are performed at high temperature and humidity
  • biofeedback — a technique for teaching the control of autonomic functions, such as the rate of heartbeat or breathing, by recording the activity and presenting it (usually visually) so that the person can know the state of the autonomic function he or she is learning to control
  • bird's beak — beak (def 9).
  • bismarckian — of, relating to, or resembling Otto von Bismarck, especially in respect to his aggressiveness in politics and diplomacy.
  • bitter lake — a salt lake containing in solution a high concentration of sulfates, carbonates, and chlorides.
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