11-letter words containing b, e, k, n
- bone-shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
- book-ending — a support placed at the end of a row of books to hold them upright, usually used in pairs.
- bookbindery — a place in which books are bound
- booking fee — a fee that some theatre and agencies charge the customer for booking through them
- bookkeeping — Bookkeeping is the job or activity of keeping an accurate record of the money that is spent and received by a business or other organization.
- bookselling — the activity of selling books
- bottle bank — A bottle bank is a large container into which people can put empty bottles so that the glass can be used again.
- bounce back — If you bounce back after a bad experience, you return very quickly to your previous level of success, enthusiasm, or activity.
- bowie knife — a stout hunting knife with a short hilt and a guard for the hand
- brankursine — a bear's-breech, a type of acanthus plant
- bread knife — a knife designed or suitable for slicing bread, as one having a wavy or saw-toothed blade.
- break dance — an acrobatic dance style originating in the 1980s
- break in on — to intrude on
- break point — a point which allows the receiving player to break the service of the server
- break ranks — to fall out of line, esp when under attack
- breakdancer — a person who does breakdancing
- breaking-up — separation, or the action of separating, into smaller parts
- brocken bow — anticorona.
- broken coal — anthracite in pieces ranging from 2 1/2 to 4 inches (6.5 to 11 cm) in extreme dimension; the largest commercial size, larger than egg coal.
- broken hill — a town in SE Australia, in W New South Wales: mining centre for lead, silver, and zinc. Pop: 19 834 (2001)
- broken home — a family in which one parent is absent, usually due to divorce or desertion: children from broken homes.
- broken line — a discontinuous line or series of line segments, as a series of dashes, or a figure made up of line segments meeting at oblique angles.
- broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
- broken reed — a weak, unreliable, or ineffectual person
- broken vein — a ruptured blood vessel
- broken wind — heaves
- broken-down — A broken-down vehicle or machine no longer works because it has something wrong with it.
- brooklynese — the speech, especially the pronunciation, thought to be characteristic of a person coming from New York City, especially Brooklyn.
- brown snake — any of various common venomous snakes of the genus Pseudonaja
- bucket down — If the rain buckets down, or if it buckets down with rain, it rains very heavily.
- buckle down — If you buckle down to something, you start working seriously at it.
- buckskinned — made of buckskin
- bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
- bull-necked — having a short thick neck
- bundelkhand — a region of central India: formerly native states, now mainly part of Madhya Pradesh
- bunker hill — the first battle of the American Revolution, actually fought on Breed's Hill, next to Bunker Hill, near Boston, on June 17, 1775. Though defeated, the colonists proved that they could stand against British regular soldiers
- burkburnett — a town in N Texas.
- bus network — (networking) A network topology in which all nodes are connected to a single wire or set of wires (the bus). Bus networks typically use CSMA/CD techniques to determine which node should transmit data at any given time. Some networks are implemented as a bus, e.g. Ethernet - a one-bit bus operating at 10, 100, 1000 or 10,000 megabits per second. Originally Ethernet was a physical layer bus consisting of a wire (with terminators at each end) to which each node was attached. Switched Ethernet, while no longer physically a bus still acts as one at the logical layers.
- by the neck — (of a bottle of beer) served unpoured
- cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
- center back — the player in the middle of the back line.
- chelyabinsk — an industrial city in SW Russia; in 2013 a large meteor exploded in an airburst over the city's surrounding district. Pop: 1 067 000 (2005 est)
- cinderblock — Made of cinder blocks.
- cornerbacks — Plural form of cornerback.
- dark nebula — a type of nebula that is observed by its blocking of radiation from other sources
- debarkation — Disembarkation.
- diefenbaker — John George, 1895–1979, prime minister of Canada 1957–63.
- dogger bank — a shoal in the North Sea, between N England and Denmark: fishing grounds; naval battle 1915.
- doner kebab — a fast-food dish comprising grilled meat and salad served in pitta bread with chilli sauce
- double knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.