11-letter words containing a, l, k
- 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.
- backpedaled — (US) Simple past tense and past participle of backpedal.
- backslapped — Simple past tense and past participle of backslap.
- backslapper — a person who backslaps; a hearty jovial person
- backslashed — Simple past tense and past participle of backslash.
- backslashes — Plural form of backslash.
- 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.
- backtalking — Present participle of backtalk.
- badderlocks — a seaweed, Alaria esculenta, that has long brownish-green fronds and is eaten in parts of N Europe
- bakersfield — city in SC Calif.: pop. 247,000
- ball hockey — a game similar to ice hockey, but played on foot on a hard surface without ice, using a hard plastic ball instead of a puck
- ballbreaker — a person, esp a woman, whose character and behaviour may be regarded as threatening a man's sense of power
- banjo clock — a clock of the early 19th century in the U.S., having a drumlike case for the dial mounted on a narrow, tapering body, with a boxlike bottom containing the pendulum and its weight.
- bankability — acceptable for processing by a bank: bankable checks and money orders.
- bankrolling — Present participle of bankroll.
- bareknuckle — (of a prizefight, prizefighter, etc.) without boxing gloves; using the bare fists.
- bark beetle — any small beetle of the family Scolytidae, which bore tunnels in the bark and wood of trees, causing great damage. They are closely related to the weevils
- barley sack — a burlap bag.
- barrel knot — a knot for fastening together two strands of gut or nylon, as fishing lines or leaders.
- baskerville — a style of type
- basket hilt — a hilt fitted to a broadsword, with a generally padded basket-shaped guard to protect the hand
- basketballs — Plural form of basketball.
- beaker folk — a prehistoric people thought to have originated in the Iberian peninsula and spread to central Europe and Britain during the second millennium bc
- bell beaker — a bell-shaped beaker, especially one associated with the Beaker folk.
- bethel park — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- bitter lake — a salt lake containing in solution a high concentration of sulfates, carbonates, and chlorides.
- black alder — a deciduous shrub (Ilex verticillata) of the holly family, native to E North America, with glossy leaves that turn black in the fall and bright-red berries
- black angus — Aberdeen Angus
- black birch — sweet birch.
- black bread — a kind of very dark coarse rye bread
- black bream — a dark-coloured food and game fish, Acanthopagrus australis, of E Australian seas
- black chaff — a disease of wheat, characterized by dark, elongated stripes on the chaff, caused by a bacterium, Xanthomonas translucens undulosum.
- black cumin — a Eurasian herb, Nigella sativa, having pungent aromatic seeds used as a spice, but unrelated to cumin.
- black death — a deadly disease, probably bubonic plague, which devastated Europe and Asia in the 14th cent.
- black dwarf — a cold, dark dwarf star
- black friar — a Dominican friar
- black frost — a frost without snow or rime that is severe enough to blacken vegetation
- black goods — electronic goods which are housed in black or dark casings, such as televisions, CD players, etc
- black hills — a group of mountains in W South Dakota and NE Wyoming: famous for the gigantic sculptures of US presidents on the side of Mount Rushmore. Highest peak: Harney Peak, 2207 m (7242 ft)
- black house — a type of thatched house, usually made of turf, formerly found in the highlands and islands of Scotland
- black humor — a form of humor that regards human suffering as absurd rather than pitiable, or that considers human existence as ironic and pointless but somehow comic.
- black ivory — Black slaves collectively
- black japan — a black bituminous varnish
- black light — the invisible electromagnetic radiation in the ultraviolet and infrared regions of the spectrum
- black magic — magic used for evil purposes by invoking the power of the devil
- black maple — a tree, Acer saccharum nigrum, of eastern and central North America, having furrowed, blackish bark and yellow-green flowers.
- black maria — a police van for transporting prisoners