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11-letter words containing a, l, k

  • black medic — a widespread weedy annual plant (Medicago lupulina) of the pea family, with small yellow flowers and black seed pods, sometimes grown for forage
  • black metal — a type of heavy-metal music characterized by extremely nihilistic and satanic lyrics, a repetitive drum beat rapidly alternating betweeen the snare and bass drum (a blast beat), and the ghoulish make-up worn by performers (corpse paint)
  • black molly — a jet-black molly, a color form especially of Poecilia latipinna or P. sphenops, popular as an aquarium fish.
  • black money — that part of a nation's income that relates to its black economy
  • black olive — a tropical American tree, Bucida buceras, having leathery leaves and greenish-yellow flowers.
  • black perch — a livebearing surfperch, Embiotoca jacksoni, occurring in abundance along the coast of California, having brownish-black scales often tinged with blue or yellow and a thick, reddish mouth.
  • black power — a social, economic, and political movement of Black people, esp in the US, to obtain equality with White people
  • black racer — blacksnake (def 1).
  • black shank — a disease of tobacco, characterized by wilting and by decayed, blackened roots and stems, caused by a fungus, Phytophthora parasitica nicotianae.
  • black sheep — If you describe someone as the black sheep of their family or of a group that they are a member of, you mean that they are considered bad or worthless by other people in that family or group.
  • black shirt — a member of any fascist organization (specif., the former Italian Fascist party) with a black-shirted uniform
  • black stump — a long way off
  • black volta — a river in W Africa, rising in SW Burkina Faso and flowing northeast, then south into Lake Volta: forms part of the border of Ghana with Burkina-Faso and with Côte d'Ivoire. Length: about 800 km (500 miles)
  • black vomit — vomit containing blood, often a manifestation of disease, such as yellow fever
  • black watch — a regiment of Scottish infantry in the British army (so called from the dark colors in their tartan).
  • black water — household waste water that cannot be reused without purification
  • black whale — a black, dolphinlike whale, Globicephala melaena, of the North Atlantic.
  • black widow — an American spider, Latrodectus mactans, the female of which is black with red markings, highly venomous, and commonly eats its mate
  • black witch — any of several large noctuid moths of the genus Erebus, especially the blackish E. odora (black witch) of Central and North America.
  • blackballed — to vote against (a candidate, applicant, etc.).
  • blackbeetle — oriental cockroach.
  • blackbirder — a person or vessel involved in the capture and transportation of slaves
  • blackfellow — Australian Aborigine
  • blackhander — a member of a Black Hand group
  • blacklister — someone who blacklists
  • blacktongue — canine pellagra.
  • bladderlike — resembling a bladder
  • blanca peak — highest peak of the Sangre de Cristo range, S Colo.: 14,317 ft (4,364 m)
  • blank check — If someone is given a blank check, they are given the authority to spend as much money as they need or want.
  • blank shell — a shotgun shell containing powder but no shot.
  • blank slate — tabula rasa.
  • blank verse — Blank verse is poetry that does not rhyme. In English literature it usually consists of lines with five stressed syllables.
  • blanket bog — a very acid peat bog, low in nutrients, extending widely over a flat terrain, found in cold wet climates
  • blanketlike — resembling a blanket
  • blanketweed — a type of filamentous pond algae
  • bleak house — a novel (1852) by Charles Dickens.
  • blind snake — any burrowing snake of the family Typhlopidae and related families of warm and tropical regions, having very small or vestigial eyes
  • block grant — (in Britain) an annual grant made by the government to a local authority to help to pay for the public services it provides, such as health, education, and housing
  • block party — A block party is an outdoor party for all the residents of a block or neighborhood.
  • block plane — a carpenter's small plane used to cut across the end grain of wood
  • block trade — the purchase and sale of blocks of securities through brokers, sometimes not members of an exchange, who negotiate between buyers and sellers.
  • blogjacking — the use of another person’s blog without his or her consent, esp for malicious or satirical purposes
  • blood-caked — caked with blood
  • blow a kiss — to kiss one's hand, then blow across it as if to carry the kiss through the air to another person
  • blue streak — anything regarded as like a streak of lightning in speed, vividness, etc.
  • bluejacking — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to gain access to another, esp in order to send anonymous text messages
  • boilermaker — a person who works with metal in heavy industry; plater or welder
  • bottle bank — A bottle bank is a large container into which people can put empty bottles so that the glass can be used again.
  • bottle rack — a rack for bottles, such as bottles of wine
  • bottle-jack — a large jack used for heavy lifts
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