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10-letter words containing a, c, k

  • backseater — A navigator who accompanies the pilot of an aircraft.
  • backsheesh — Alternative spelling of baksheesh.
  • backsights — Plural form of backsight.
  • backslider — A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
  • backspaced — Simple past tense and past participle of backspace.
  • backspaces — Plural form of backspace.
  • backsplash — any tiled area by, for example, a sink, cooker or bath to prevent damage to a wall by food or water splashes
  • backsplice — a knot for finishing a rope end neatly, beginning with a crown and proceeding in a series of tucks, each strand over the first adjoining strand and under the next, the strands being split in half at each tuck.
  • backstairs — a secondary staircase in a house, esp one originally for the use of servants
  • backstitch — a strong sewing stitch made by starting the next stitch at the middle or beginning of the preceding one
  • backstreet — a street in a town remote from the main roads
  • backstroke — Backstroke is a swimming stroke that you do lying on your back.
  • backswings — Plural form of backswing.
  • backswords — Plural form of backsword.
  • backtalker — One who backtalks.
  • backtracks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backtrack.
  • backvelder — a person who lives in a backveld
  • backwardly — In a backward direction.
  • backwasher — (textiles) A machine used for washing wool after carding to remove the impurities.
  • backwaters — Plural form of backwater.
  • backwinded — Simple past tense and past participle of backwind.
  • backwoodsy — like or of the nature of backwoods
  • bailiwicks — Plural form of bailiwick.
  • 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.
  • bar kochba — Simeon. died 135 ad, Jewish leader who led an unsuccessful revolt against the Romans in Palestine
  • barebacker — (slang) A person who engages in barebacking.
  • barenecked — Having the neck bare.
  • 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
  • barracking — Present participle of barrack.
  • basketcase — Alternative form of basket case.
  • bath brick — a brick-shaped piece of calcareous earth, used for cleaning polished metal
  • battercake — pancake (def 1).
  • beam brick — a face brick for bonding to a concrete lintel poured in place, having a section like a right triangle.
  • bed jacket — a woman's short upper garment worn over a nightgown when sitting up in bed
  • bell crank — a lever with two arms having a common fulcrum at their junction
  • belly pack — fanny pack.
  • 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
  • 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
  • bivouacked — a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
  • black bass — any of several predatory North American percoid freshwater game fishes of the genus Micropterus: family Centrarchidae (sunfishes, etc)
  • black bean — an Australian leguminous tree, Castanospermum australe, having thin smooth bark and yellow or reddish flowers: used in furniture manufacture
  • black bear — the common North American bear (Ursus americanus) that lives in forests and feeds mainly on roots and berries
  • 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 bile — one of the four bodily humours; melancholy
  • black bloc — an informal grouping of militant, mainly anarchist, protesters who act together during anti-capitalism, anti-war, etc, protests, often wearing black hoods and black clothing
  • black body — a hypothetical body that would be capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it
  • black book — a book containing the names of people to be punished, blacklisted, etc
  • black caps — any of several birds having the top of the head black, as the chickadee and certain warblers, especially the Old World blackcap, Sylvia atricapilla.
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