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

  • backsheesh — Alternative spelling of baksheesh.
  • backslider — A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
  • backspaced — Simple past tense and past participle of backspace.
  • backspaces — Plural form of backspace.
  • backsplice — a knot for finishing a rope end neatly, beginning with a crown and proceeding in a series of tucks, each strand over the first adjoining strand and under the next, the strands being split in half at each tuck.
  • backstreet — a street in a town remote from the main roads
  • backstroke — Backstroke is a swimming stroke that you do lying on your back.
  • backtalker — One who backtalks.
  • backvelder — a person who lives in a backveld
  • backwasher — (textiles) A machine used for washing wool after carding to remove the impurities.
  • backwaters — Plural form of backwater.
  • backwinded — Simple past tense and past participle of backwind.
  • bake blind — to bake (the empty crust of a pie, pastry, etc) by half filling with dried peas, crusts of bread, etc, to keep it in shape
  • bake-wares — heat-resistant dishes, as of glass or pottery, in which food may be baked; ovenware.
  • bakeapples — Plural form of bakeapple.
  • bakehouses — Plural form of bakehouse.
  • baker lake — a lake in the Northwest Territories, in N Canada. 975 sq. mi. (2525 sq. km).
  • bakersheet — dripping pan.
  • balkanized — Simple past tense and past participle of balkanize.
  • band brake — a brake using a brake band.
  • bank check — A bank check is a check that you can buy from a bank in order to pay someone who is not willing to accept a personal check.
  • bank clerk — an employee of a bank
  • bank money — checks, drafts, and bank credits other than currency that are the equivalent of money.
  • bank paper — bank notes collectively
  • bankrolled — money in one's possession; monetary resources.
  • bankroller — the person or organization that provides the finance for a project, business, etc
  • bankrupted — Law. a person who upon his or her own petition or that of his or her creditors is adjudged insolvent by a court and whose property is administered for and divided among his or her creditors under a bankruptcy law.
  • barebacker — (slang) A person who engages in barebacking.
  • barenecked — Having the neck bare.
  • barkantine — a sailing vessel having three or more masts, square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft-rigged on the other masts.
  • barkeepers — Plural form of barkeeper.
  • barkentine — a sailing ship of three or more masts rigged square on the foremast and fore-and-aft on the others
  • barkhausen — Heinrich Georg. 1881–1956, German physicist; discovered that ferromagnetic material in an increasing magnetic field becomes magnetized in discrete jumps (the Barkhausen effect)
  • basketball — Basketball is a game in which two teams of five players each try to score goals by throwing a large ball through a circular net fixed to a metal ring at each end of the court.
  • basketcase — Alternative form of basket case.
  • basketlike — resembling a basket
  • basketwork — work that is interlaced or woven like a basket; wickerwork
  • battercake — pancake (def 1).
  • beam brick — a face brick for bonding to a concrete lintel poured in place, having a section like a right triangle.
  • beanie key — feature key
  • beanstalks — Plural form of beanstalk.
  • bed jacket — a woman's short upper garment worn over a nightgown when sitting up in bed
  • bell crank — a lever with two arms having a common fulcrum at their junction
  • belly pack — fanny pack.
  • belly tank — a fuel tank in the belly of a plane
  • bench mark — a surveyor's mark made on a permanent landmark of known position and altitude: it is used as a reference point in determining other altitudes
  • bergamasko — an inhabitant of Bergamo
  • berkeleian — denoting or relating to the philosophy of George Berkeley
  • beta stock — any of the second rank of active securities on the Stock Exchange, of which there are about 500. Continuous display of prices by market makers is required but not immediate publication of transactions
  • birkenhead — a port in NW England, in Wirral unitary authority, Merseyside: former shipbuilding centre. Pop: 83 729 (2001)
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