10-letter words containing b, a, c, k, t
- 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
- cat basket — a basket used for transporting a cat
- city break — a short holiday spent in a city
- click bait — Click bait is something on a website that encourages people to click on a link.
- club steak — a small steak that is cut from the short loin of beef and contains no part of the tenderloin
- cockleboat — cockboat.
- crab stick — a stick of finely ground white fish, coloured to resemble crabmeat
- crabsticks — Plural form of crabstick.
- cube steak — a thin slice of beef that has been tenderized by being cubed
- fight back — retaliate
- fuck about — to act in a stupid or aimless manner
- go back to — revert
- hatchbacks — Plural form of hatchback.
- heart back — a chair back having a form resembling that of a somewhat heart-shaped medieval shield.
- jackbooted — wearing jackboots.
- jackrabbit — resembling a jack rabbit, as in suddenness or rapidity of movement: The car made a jackrabbit start when the traffic light turned green.
- kabalistic — cabalistic.
- kick about — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- knob latch — a latch having a spring bolt controlled by a knob on one or both sides.
- knockabout — Nautical. any of various fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessels having a single jib bent to a stay from the stemhead, no bowsprit being used: usually rigged as a sloop.
- matchbooks — Plural form of matchbook.
- muck about — moist farmyard dung, decaying vegetable matter, etc.; manure.
- notchbacks — Plural form of notchback.
- picketboat — a boat which keeps guard
- pocketable — small enough to be carried in one's pocket; pocket-size.
- sketchable — suitable for being sketched.
- slab track — a railroad track in which the rails are attached to and supported by a bed or slab, usually of concrete.
- stand back — retreat, stay at a distance