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10-letter words containing b, e, k, a

  • break away — If you break away from someone who is trying to hold you or catch you, you free yourself and run away.
  • break bulk — of or relating to packaged cargo, usually manufactured goods, that is marked for individual consignees and has to be loaded and unloaded piece by piece at each point of transfer. Compare bulk1 (def 3), containerization.
  • break camp — to pack up equipment and leave a camp
  • break down — If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
  • break even — to attain a level of activity, as in commerce, or a point of operation, as in gambling, at which there is neither profit nor loss
  • break into — If someone breaks into a building, they get into it by force.
  • break step — to cease to march in step
  • break wind — to emit wind from the anus
  • break with — to end a relationship or association with (someone or an organization or social group)
  • break-bulk — of or relating to packaged cargo, usually manufactured goods, that is marked for individual consignees and has to be loaded and unloaded piece by piece at each point of transfer. Compare bulk1 (def 3), containerization.
  • break-even — having income exactly equal to expenditure, thus showing neither profit nor loss.
  • breakables — objects that are delicate and could be easily broken
  • breakdance — to perform break dancing.
  • breakfront — (of a bookcase, bureau, etc) having a slightly projecting central section
  • breakpoint — an instruction inserted by a debug program causing a return to the debug program
  • breakwater — A breakwater is a wooden or stone wall that extends from the shore into the sea and is built in order to protect a harbour or beach from the force of the waves.
  • breastwork — a temporary defensive work, usually breast-high
  • brickearth — a clayey alluvium suitable for the making of bricks: specifically, such a deposit in southern England, yielding a fertile soil
  • bricklayer — A bricklayer is a person whose job is to build walls using bricks.
  • brickmaker — a person who makes bricks
  • bridgetalk — (language)   A visual language.
  • brookhaven — a town in SW Mississippi.
  • buck naked — Someone who is buck naked is not wearing any clothes at all.
  • buckpasser — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
  • buena park — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 78,000
  • bulk large — to be or seem important or prominent
  • bull snake — any burrowing North American nonvenomous colubrid snake of the genus Pituophis, typically having yellow and brown markings
  • bundesbank — the central bank of Germany
  • bushwalker — a person who hikes through bushland
  • butt-naked — completely naked
  • by mistake — accidentally, not on purpose
  • cabin deck — the deck above the weather deck in the bridge house of a ship.
  • cable-knit — knitted using the cable stitch
  • canebrakes — Plural form of canebrake.
  • cat basket — a basket used for transporting a cat
  • chainbrake — a device for cutting off the power to a chainsaw if the saw kicks back
  • chargeback — the return of funds by a seller to a buyer's debit or credit card account
  • cheboksary — a port in W central Russia on the River Volga: capital of the Chuvash Republic. Pop: 446 000 (2005 est)
  • choke back — If you choke back tears or a strong emotion, you force yourself not to show your emotion.
  • city break — a short holiday spent in a city
  • club steak — a small steak that is cut from the short loin of beef and contains no part of the tenderloin
  • cockleboat — cockboat.
  • comebacker — (baseball) A pop fly that falls behind home plate, typically caught by the catcher for an out.
  • cornerback — a defensive back
  • crackberry — a nickname for a BlackBerry handheld device that functions as a telephone, PDA, and e-mailer and appears to have an addictive hold on its users
  • crakeberry — The crowberry.
  • cube steak — a thin slice of beef that has been tenderized by being cubed
  • deck cabin — a cabin on the deck of a boat from which the vessel is steered
  • disc brake — a brake system in which a disc attached to a wheel is slowed by the friction of brake pads being pressed against the disc by a caliper.
  • disembarks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disembark.
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