11-letter words containing a, b, k
- clark gable — (William) Clark, 1901–60, U.S. film actor.
- cliff brake — any of several common ferns of the genus Pellaea, usually growing in pockets of thin soil on rocks.
- cockleboats — Plural form of cockleboat.
- codebreaker — A person who solves a code or codes.
- cookie bear — cookie monster
- cornerbacks — Plural form of cornerback.
- cricket bat — a specially shaped, carved wooden bat used to play cricket
- crookbacked — Hunchbacked.
- curb market — curb (def 5).
- cyberattack — an attempt to damage or disrupt a computer system, or obtain information stored on a computer system, by means of hacking
- dark nebula — a type of nebula that is observed by its blocking of radiation from other sources
- dealbreaker — A dealbreaker is an issue that prevents people from reaching an agreement.
- debarkation — Disembarkation.
- diamondback — any edible North American terrapin of the genus Malaclemys, esp M. terrapin, occurring in brackish and tidal waters and having diamond-shaped markings on the shell: family Emydidae
- diefenbaker — John George, 1895–1979, prime minister of Canada 1957–63.
- disembarked — Simple past tense and past participle of disembark.
- disembarkee — One who disembarks from a vessel such as an airplane or ship.
- dislikeable — Alternative spelling of dislikable.
- dogger bank — a shoal in the North Sea, between N England and Denmark: fishing grounds; naval battle 1915.
- doner kebab — a fast-food dish comprising grilled meat and salad served in pitta bread with chilli sauce
- double back — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
- double ikat — a method of printing woven fabric by tie-dyeing the warp yarns (warp ikat) the weft yarns (weft ikat) or both (double ikat) before weaving.
- double take — a rapid or surprised second look, either literal or figurative, at a person or situation whose significance had not been completely grasped at first: His friends did a double take when they saw how much weight he had lost.
- double talk — speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.
- double-bank — to have two rowers pull (each of a number of oars).
- double-park — If someone double-parks their car or their car double-parks, they park in a road by the side of another parked car.
- double-take — a rapid or surprised second look, either literal or figurative, at a person or situation whose significance had not been completely grasped at first: His friends did a double take when they saw how much weight he had lost.
- double-talk — speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.
- doublespeak — evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse.
- dragon book — (publication) The classic text "Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools", by Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman (Addison-Wesley 1986; ISBN 0-201-10088-6). So called because of the cover design featuring a dragon labelled "complexity of compiler design" and a knight bearing the lance "LALR parser generator" among his other trappings. This one is more specifically known as the "Red Dragon Book" (1986); an earlier edition, sans Sethi and titled "Principles Of Compiler Design" (Alfred V. Aho and Jeffrey D. Ullman; Addison-Wesley, 1977; ISBN 0-201-00022-9), was the "Green Dragon Book" (1977). (Also "New Dragon Book", "Old Dragon Book".) The horsed knight and the Green Dragon were warily eying each other at a distance; now the knight is typing (wearing gauntlets!) at a terminal showing a video-game representation of the Red Dragon's head while the rest of the beast extends back in normal space. See also book titles.
- drakensberg — a mountain range in the E Republic of South Africa: highest peak, 10,988 feet (3350 meters).
- embankments — Plural form of embankment.
- embarkation — The act of embarking.
- embarkments — Plural form of embarkment.
- facebookers — Plural form of facebooker.
- farkleberry — a shrub or small tree, Vaccinium arboreum, of the heath family, native to the southern U.S., bearing small, waxy, white flowers and black, many-seeded berries.
- fault block — a mass of rock bounded on at least two opposite sides by faults.
- featherback — any freshwater fish of the family Notopteridae, of Asia and western Africa, having a small, feathery dorsal fin and a very long anal fin extending from close behind the head to the tip of the tail.
- fiddle back — a chair back having a solid splat similar in form to that of a fiddle.
- fiddle-back — a chair back having a solid splat similar in form to that of a fiddle.
- foam-backed — having a backing made of foam rubber
- frank dobie — (James) Frank, 1888–1964, U.S. folklorist, educator, and author.
- gamebreaker — a person who makes a significant contribution to a team's sporting success
- gas bracket — a metal pipe projecting from the wall of an apartment, used to support gas lamps and to supply them with gas
- get back at — take revenge on
- get back to — resume
- glass block — a translucent, hollow or solid block of glass for glazing openings or constructing partitions, usually square on the face, with the outer surfaces treated in any of various ways.
- gob-smacked — utterly astounded; astonished.
- gobsmacking — Causing one to be gobsmacked; astounding, flabbergasting.
- grand banks — an extensive shoal SE of Newfoundland: fishing grounds. 350 miles (565 km) long; 40,000 sq. mi. (104,000 sq. km).