10-letter words containing a, c, k, t
- backtracks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backtrack.
- backwaters — Plural form of backwater.
- bankruptcy — Bankruptcy is the state of being bankrupt.
- bark cloth — a papery fabric made from the fibrous inner bark of various trees, esp of the moraceous genus Ficus and the leguminous genus Brachystegia
- basketcase — Alternative form of basket case.
- bath brick — a brick-shaped piece of calcareous earth, used for cleaning polished metal
- battercake — pancake (def 1).
- bed jacket — a woman's short upper garment worn over a nightgown when sitting up in bed
- beta stock — any of the second rank of active securities on the Stock Exchange, of which there are about 500. Continuous display of prices by market makers is required but not immediate publication of transactions
- black belt — A black belt is worn by someone who has reached a very high standard in a sport such as judo or karate.
- black diet — deprivation of all food and water as a punishment, often leading to death.
- black gnat — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
- black heat — heat emitted by an electric element made from low-resistance thick wire that does not glow red
- black kite — a bird of prey, Milvus migrans, found in much of Eurasia
- 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 list — a list of persons under suspicion, disfavor, censure, etc.: His record as an anarchist put him on the government's blacklist.
- black rust — a stage in any of several diseases of cereals and grasses caused by rust fungi in which black masses of spores appear on the stems or leaves
- black site — a secret facility used by a country's military as a prison and interrogation centre, whose existence is denied by the government
- black spot — If you describe a place, time, or part of a situation as a black spot, you mean that it is particularly bad or likely to cause problems.
- black stem — a disease of plants, characterized by blackened stems and defoliation, caused by any of several fungi, as Ascochyta imperfecta or Mycosphaerella lethalis.
- black taxi — a minibus used to transport workers from the townships to the city centres
- black tern — a small tern with a black head and body, Chlidonias niger, found on all continents except Australasia
- black titi — See under titi2 .
- blackheart — an abnormal darkening of the woody stems of some plants, thought to be caused by extreme cold
- blackheath — a residential district in SE London, mainly in the boroughs of Lewisham and Greenwich: a large heath formerly notorious for highwaymen
- blackpatch — a disease of red and white clover, caused by an unidentified fungus and characterized by brown or blackish lesions on the plant.
- blackplate — cold-rolled sheet steel before pickling or cleaning.
- blackshirt — (in Europe) a member of a fascist organization, esp a member of the Italian Fascist party before and during World War II
- blacksmith — A blacksmith is a person whose job is making things by hand out of metal that has been heated to a high temperature.
- blackstone — Sir William. 1723–80, English jurist noted particularly for his Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–69), which had a profound influence on jurisprudence in the US
- blackstrap — a kind of port wine
- blackthorn — a thorny Eurasian rosaceous shrub, Prunus spinosa, with black twigs, white flowers, and small sour plumlike fruits
- blackwater — a stream stained dark with peat
- block mast — a short mast from the head of which a lateen yard is suspended.
- bluejacket — a sailor in the Navy
- body track — the tracks of a railroad yard used for switching or sorting cars.
- book match — a match in or from a matchbook.
- bracketing — a set of brackets
- breadstick — bread baked in a long thin crisp stick
- brickearth — a clayey alluvium suitable for the making of bricks: specifically, such a deposit in southern England, yielding a fertile soil
- burckhardt — Jacob Christoph. 1818–97, Swiss art and cultural historian; author of The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)
- cable-knit — knitted using the cable stitch
- cake eater — a ladies' man.
- cake stand — a plate on a pedestal used for displaying cakes in a shop or café, or for special cakes such as wedding cakes
- cankerroot — goldthread.
- card trick — an illusory feat performed with playing cards
- care-taker — a person who is in charge of the maintenance of a building, estate, etc.; superintendent.
- caretakers — Plural form of caretaker.
- caretaking — a person who is in charge of the maintenance of a building, estate, etc.; superintendent.
- cart track — a rough track or road in a rural area