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11-letter words containing a, k, i

  • awning deck — a weather deck supported on very light scantlings.
  • back boiler — a tank or series of pipes at the back of a fireplace for heating water
  • back office — the administrative and support staff of a financial institution or other business
  • back stairs — stairs at the back of a house, as for use by servants.
  • back-stitch — stitching or a stitch in which the thread is doubled back on the preceding stitch.
  • backcasting — Present participle of backcast.
  • backfilling — material used for refilling an excavation.
  • backflowing — Flowing backwards.
  • backhanding — Present participle of backhand.
  • backing dog — a dog that moves a flock of sheep by jumping on their backs
  • backlashing — a sudden, forceful backward movement; recoil.
  • backlighted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlight.
  • backlisting — Present participle of backlist.
  • backloading — to defer to a later date, as wages, benefits, or costs: The union agreed to back-load pay raises.
  • backlogging — a reserve or accumulation, as of stock, work, or business: a backlog of business orders.
  • backpacking — If you go backpacking, you go travelling with a backpack.
  • backside-to — backend-to.
  • backslidden — Past participle of backslide.
  • backsliding — If you accuse someone of backsliding, you disapprove of them because they have failed to do something they promised or agreed to do, or have started again doing something undesirable that they had previously stopped doing.
  • backsolving — Present participle of backsolve.
  • backspacing — Present participle of backspace.
  • backswimmer — an aquatic bug belonging to the family Notonectidae that swims on its back using its back legs as oars
  • backtalking — Present participle of backtalk.
  • backwashing — A form of water treatment in which water is pumped backwards through the filter media, sometimes with intermittent use of compressed air.
  • bakersfield — city in SC Calif.: pop. 247,000
  • baking dish — a usually ceramic dish in which items can be baked
  • baking soda — Baking soda is the same as bicarbonate of soda.
  • baking tray — A baking tray is the same as a baking sheet.
  • ban ki-moon — born 1944, South Korean international civil servant; secretary-general of the United Nations from 2007
  • banana skin — The thick yellow or green covering of a banana is called a banana skin.
  • bandkeramik — the pottery of the early Neolithic Danubian culture of Europe, having characteristic parallel spiral lines over the body and neck of the gourdlike vessels and dated 5000–4000 b.c.
  • bankability — acceptable for processing by a bank: bankable checks and money orders.
  • banking 2.0 — a name given to several radical departures from the traditional model of banking, esp the use of communications technology to facilitate lending between individuals
  • banking pin — either of two pins for damping or halting the oscillation, in either direction, of a balance or lever.
  • bankrolling — Present participle of bankroll.
  • bankrupting — Present participle of bankrupt.
  • barebacking — sexual intercourse performed without the use of a condom
  • barge spike — a square spike with a chisel point.
  • barking mad — If you say that someone is barking mad, you mean that they are insane or are acting very strangely.
  • baryshnikov — Mikhail. born 1948, Soviet-born ballet dancer, who defected (1974) to the West while on tour with the Kirov Ballet: director (1980–90) of the American Ballet Theatre
  • bashibazouk — (in the 19th century) one of a group of irregular Turkish soldiers notorious for their brutality
  • basingstoke — a town in S England, in N Hampshire. Pop: 90 171 (2001)
  • baskerville — a style of type
  • basket fish — basket star.
  • basket hilt — a hilt fitted to a broadsword, with a generally padded basket-shaped guard to protect the hand
  • bikini scar — a horizontal scar on the lower abdomen in the area where a bikini would be worn, usually resulting from a Caesarean section.
  • bikram yoga — a form of yoga in which traditional exercises are performed at high temperature and humidity
  • biofeedback — a technique for teaching the control of autonomic functions, such as the rate of heartbeat or breathing, by recording the activity and presenting it (usually visually) so that the person can know the state of the autonomic function he or she is learning to control
  • bird's beak — beak (def 9).
  • bismarckian — of, relating to, or resembling Otto von Bismarck, especially in respect to his aggressiveness in politics and diplomacy.
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