10-letter words containing a, c, k, n
- acknowledg — Obsolete form of acknowledge.
- adirondack — a member of an Algonquian people living mainly north of the St. Lawrence River.
- aiken code — (data) An alternative form of the Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) system for encoding numbers. Where BCD encodes each decimal digit in normal binary, Aiken code uses the encoding shown below. This is supposed to be less prone to corruption. The following table shows the encoding of each decimal digit, D, in BCD and Aiken code: D BCD Aiken 0 0000 0000 1 0001 0001 2 0010 0010 3 0011 0011 4 0100 0100 5 0101 1011 (inverted 4) 6 0110 1100 (inverted 3) 7 0111 1101 (inverted 2) 8 1000 1110 (inverted 1) 9 1001 1111 (inverted 0) The Aiken code was probably designed by Howard Aiken in the 1940s or 1950s for use in data transmission. Compare: Gray code.
- alpenstock — an early form of ice axe, consisting of a stout stick with an iron tip and sometimes having a pick and adze at the head, formerly used by mountain climbers
- angel cake — a very light sponge cake made without egg yolks
- ankle sock — a short sock coming up to the ankle
- answerback — a reply or answering message from a computer or other electronic device, as by means of teletypewriter or simulated voice.
- anti-knock — An anti-knock agent helps to stop an engine from knocking, making it function more smoothly.
- anticaking — denoting an agent used to prevent substances from going hard or forming lumps
- antihijack — acting to prevent or resolve hijack situations
- antishocks — antishock
- archipenko — Aleksandr Porfiryevich (alɪkˈsandr parˈfirjɪvitʃ). 1887– 1964, Russian sculptor and painter, in the US after 1923, whose work is characterized by economy of form
- ashkenazic — of or relating to the Ashkenazi Jews
- asskicking — to kick ass. See kick (def 33).
- back bacon — lean bacon from the back of a pig's loin
- back bench — any of the rows of seats occupied by the backbenchers.
- back green — grass or a garden at the back of a house, esp a tenement
- back slang — a type of slang in which words are spelled and, as far as possible, pronounced backwards
- backbiting — If you accuse someone of backbiting, you mean that they say unpleasant or unkind things about someone who is not present, especially in order to stop them doing well at work.
- backburned — Simple past tense and past participle of backburn.
- backburner — a condition of low priority or temporary deferment (usually used in the phrase on the back burner): Put other issues on the back burner until after the election.
- backdating — Present participle of backdate.
- backend-to — in a reversed position; backward.
- backfiring — Present participle of backfire.
- backgammon — Backgammon is a game for two people, played on a board marked with long triangles. Each player has 15 wooden or plastic discs. The players throw dice and move the discs around the board.
- background — Your background is the kind of family you come from and the kind of education you have had. It can also refer to such things as your social and racial origins, your financial status, or the type of work experience that you have.
- backhanded — A backhanded compliment is a remark which seems to be an insult but could also be understood as a compliment. A backhanded compliment is also a remark which seems to be a compliment but could also be understood as an insult.
- backhander — A backhander is an amount of money that is illegally paid to someone in a position of authority in order to encourage them to do something.
- backplanes — Plural form of backplane.
- backronyms — Plural form of backronym.
- backswings — Plural form of backswing.
- backwinded — Simple past tense and past participle of backwind.
- bank check — A bank check is a check that you can buy from a bank in order to pay someone who is not willing to accept a personal check.
- bank clerk — an employee of a bank
- bankruptcy — Bankruptcy is the state of being bankrupt.
- barenecked — Having the neck bare.
- barracking — Present participle of barrack.
- bell crank — a lever with two arms having a common fulcrum at their junction
- bench mark — a surveyor's mark made on a permanent landmark of known position and altitude: it is used as a reference point in determining other altitudes
- black bean — an Australian leguminous tree, Castanospermum australe, having thin smooth bark and yellow or reddish flowers: used in furniture manufacture
- black gang — the crew working in a stokehold of a ship.
- black gnat — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
- black hand — a group of Sicilian blackmailers and terrorists formed in the 1870s and operating in the US in the early 20th century
- black knot — a fungal disease of plums and cherries caused by Dibotryon morbosum, characterized by rough black knotlike swellings on the twigs and branches
- black land — a black, clayey soil.
- black lung — pneumoconiosis of coal miners, caused by coal dust; anthracosis.
- black monk — a Benedictine monk
- black ring — a disease of grasses, characterized by black rings surrounding the stems and blighted seeds, caused by a fungus, Balansia strangulans.
- black swan — a phenomenon that occurs even though it had been thought to be impossible
- black tern — a small tern with a black head and body, Chlidonias niger, found on all continents except Australasia
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