10-letter words containing b, e, k
- schaerbeek — a city in central Belgium, near Brussels.
- shark bell — a bell sounded to warn swimmers of the presence of sharks
- shell back — an underside of a spoon bowl ornamented with a shell motif.
- sherbrooke — a city in S Quebec, in SE Canada.
- shock tube — an apparatus in which a gas is heated to very high temperatures by means of a shock wave, usually for spectroscopic investigation of the natures and reactions of the resulting radicals and excited molecules
- sickle bar — cutter bar (def 1).
- sicklebill — any of various birds having a long, curved bill, as the long-billed curlew or curve-billed thrasher.
- silverback — an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.
- sinkerball — sinker (def 5).
- skara brae — the site of an excavated Neolithic village on Pomona in the Orkney Islands, dating from c2000 b.c.
- skateboard — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
- sketchable — suitable for being sketched.
- sketchbook — Also, sketchpad. a book or pad of drawing paper for sketches.
- smoke bomb — a bomb that produces a continuous discharge of smoke rather than an explosion, used to mark a target for aerial attack, indicate wind direction, produce a smoke screen, etc.
- smokeboard — a board situated above a fireplace to prevent the emission of smoke into a room
- sourcebook — a book which contains sources of information on a particular subject
- sperm bank — a repository for storing sperm and keeping it viable under scientifically controlled conditions prior to its use in artificial insemination.
- stake boat — an anchored boat to which barges or other boats are temporarily moored.
- stake body — an open truck body having a platform with sockets at the edge into which upright stakes may be placed to form a fence around a load.
- state bank — a bank chartered by a state and operated under the banking laws of that state.
- stickybeak — a busybody; meddler.
- stock cube — bouillon cube used for gravy, etc.
- stonebreak — any of a variety of plants in the genus Saxifraga
- studebaker — Clement, 1831–1901, U.S. wagon maker and pioneer automobile designer.
- superblock — an area of city land larger than the usual block, treated according to a unified plan and generally closed to vehicular through traffic.
- swaybacked — having the back sagged to an unusual degree; having a sway-back.
- table talk — informal conversation at meals.
- take a bow — to bend the knee or body or incline the head, as in reverence, submission, salutation, recognition, or acknowledgment.
- take aback — to astonish or disconcert
- tankbuster — an aircraft, missile, etc designed to destroy tanks
- tea basket — a lunch basket or picnic hamper.
- test blank — a typed or printed test form containing questions or tasks to be responded to.
- tewkesbury — a town in N Gloucestershire, in W England: final defeat of the Lancastrians in the Wars of the Roses 1471.
- the breaks — to smash, split, or divide into parts violently; reduce to pieces or fragments: He broke a vase.
- the buskin — tragic drama
- tick-borne — carried or transmitted by ticks: tick-borne disease.
- tiebreaker — a system for breaking a tie score at the end of regulation play by establishing a winner through special additional play, usually of a fairly short duration, as in tennis and soccer.
- timberjack — a person whose occupation is logging; logger.
- timberlake — Justin. born 1981, US pop singer; a member of the boy band NSYNC, he later found success with the bestselling solo album Justified (2002)
- timberwork — structural work formed of timbers.
- tonka bean — the fragrant, black almond-shaped seed of a tall tree belonging to the genus Dipteryx (or Coumarouna), of the legume family, especially D. odorata, of tropical South America, used in perfumes, as a source of coumarin, and as a substitute for vanilla.
- trace back — identify origin, owner
- trade book — a book designed for the general public and available through an ordinary book dealer, as distinguished from a limited-edition book, textbook, mass market paperback, etc.
- trail bike — off-road motorcycle
- trubetzkoy — N(ikolai) S(ergeievich) [nyi-kuh-lahy syir-gye-yi-vyich] /nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1938, Russian linguist in Austria.
- tucker-bag — a bag used to carry food.
- tucker-box — a box used to store or carry food.
- turkophobe — a person who has a morbid fear of Turks.
- turnbuckle — a link or sleeve with a swivel at one end and an internal screw thread at the other, or with an internal screw thread at each end, used as a means of uniting or coupling, and of tightening, two parts, as the ends of two rods.
- turtleback — Archaeology. tortoise-core.