9-letter words containing a, b, k
- bob skate — an ice skate with two parallel blades
- boghazkoy — a village in N central Turkey: site of the ancient Hittite city of Hattusas.
- bokassa i — original name Jean Bedel Bokassa. 1921–96, president of the Central African Republic (1972–76); emperor of the renamed Central African Empire from 1976 until overthrown in 1979
- bomb rack — a device for carrying bombs in or under the fuselage of an aircraft.
- 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
- boobquake — a Facebook campaign created to disprove the contention of an Iranian cleric that immodestly dressed women cause earthquakes
- book fair — a commercial event at which publishers exhibit and trade books
- bookcraft — literary skill; authorship.
- bookmaker — A bookmaker is a person whose job is to take your money when you bet and to pay you money if you win.
- bookmarks — a ribbon or other marker placed between the pages of a book to mark a place.
- bookpaper — the paper used in printing books, especially when of superior quality.
- bookplate — A bookplate is a piece of decorated paper which is stuck in the front of a book and on which the owner's name is printed or written.
- bookstack — Usually, bookstacks. stack (def 4).
- bookstall — A bookstall is a long table from which books and magazines are sold, for example at a conference or in a street market.
- bookstand — a cradle for holding an open book so that it may be read comfortably
- bootblack — a person whose work is shining shoes and boots
- bootmaker — a person who makes boots and shoes for a living
- bop stack — A BOP stack is one of two or more units which control well pressure, and contain the wellhead and blowout preventers.
- boschvark — a bush pig of S Africa
- bracketed — a support, as of metal or wood, projecting from a wall or the like to hold or bear the weight of a shelf, part of a cornice, etc.
- 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 pad — the flat metal casting, together with the bound friction material, in a disc brake
- 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
- brat pack — A brat pack is a group of young people, especially actors or writers, who are popular or successful at the moment.
- break off — If part of something breaks off or if you break it off, it comes off or is removed by force.
- break out — If something such as war, fighting, or disease breaks out, it begins suddenly.
- breakable — Breakable objects are easy to break by accident.
- breakages — things broken, usually accidentally
- breakaway — A breakaway group is a group of people who have separated from a larger group, for example because of a disagreement.
- breakback — backbreaking; extremely heavy
- breakbeat — a type of electronic dance music
- 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
- breakfast — Breakfast is the first meal of the day. It is usually eaten in the early part of the morning.
- breakneck — If you say that something happens or travels at breakneck speed, you mean that it happens or travels very fast.
- breakover — jump (def 51).
- breakroom — a room in a workplace that is set aside for employees to use during a break from work, as to relax, socialize, or eat.
- breaktime — a period of rest or recreation, esp at school
- breakwall — breakwater
- brickclay — any clay suitable for making bricks
- brickyard — a place in which bricks are made, stored, or sold
- bridecake — a wedding cake
- brokerage — A brokerage or a brokerage firm is a company of brokers.
- brushback — a pitch that narrowly misses the batter
- brushmark — the indented lines sometimes left by the bristles of a brush on a painted surface