10-letter words containing b, e, r, k, n
- fibrinlike — Resembling or characteristic of fibrin.
- green book — 1.
Informal name for one of the four standard references on PostScript. The other three official guides are known as the Blue Book, the Red Book, and the White Book. 2. (publication) Informal name for one of the three standard references on SmallTalk. Also associated with blue and red books. 3. The "X/Open Compatibility Guide", which defines an international standard Unix environment that is a proper superset of POSIX/SVID. It also includes descriptions of a standard utility toolkit, systems administrations features, and the like. This grimoire is taken with particular seriousness in Europe. See Purple Book. 4. The IEEE 1003.1 POSIX Operating Systems Interface standard has been dubbed "The Ugly Green Book". 5. Any of the 1992 standards issued by the ITU-T's tenth plenary assembly. These include, among other things, the dreadful X.400 electronic mail standard and the Group 1 through 4 fax standards. 6. Green Book CD-ROM. See also book titles. - greenbacks — Plural form of greenback.
- hand brake — a brake operated by a hand lever. Compare caliper (def 6).
- handbrakes — Plural form of handbrake.
- inbreaking — The act of breaking in; incursion; invasion; inroad.
- inkberries — Plural form of inkberry.
- jailbroken — an escape from prison, especially by forcible means.
- kapfenberg — an industrial town in E Austria, in Styria. Pop: 22 234 (2001)
- kerbstones — Plural form of kerbstone.
- klangfarbe — instrumental timbre or tone colour
- knackebrod — flat, thin, brittle unleavened rye bread.
- knee brace — a diagonal member for bracing the angle between two joined members, as a stud or column and a joist or rafter, being joined to each partway along its length.
- knobkerrie — a short, heavy wooden club with a knob on one end, used especially by native peoples of South Africa for striking and throwing.
- konigsberg — a former province in NE Germany: an enclave separated from Germany by the Polish Corridor; now divided between Poland and the Russian Federation. 14,283 sq. mi. (36,993 sq. km). Capital: Königsberg.
- kummerbund — a wide sash worn at the waist, especially a horizontally pleated one worn with a tuxedo.
- limberneck — a fatal infection of botulism affecting birds, especially chickens and ducks, characterized by weakness of the neck muscles and inability to eat.
- linebacker — a player on defense who takes a position close behind the linemen.
- lunchbreak — A period of rest from work for the purpose of eating lunch.
- maasbanker — (South Africa) A species of edible mackerel, Trachurus trachurus.
- mini-break — A mini-break is a short holiday.
- mossbanker — A fish, the menhaden.
- mossbunker — the menhaden.
- newark bay — a bay in NE New Jersey. 6 miles (10 km) long; 1 mile (1.6 km) wide.
- newsbreaks — Plural form of newsbreak.
- noel-baker — Philip John, 1889–1982, British statesman and author: Nobel Peace Prize 1959.
- overbanked — Furnished with too many banks (financial institutions).
- park bench — a long seat made of wood or metal that two or more people can sit on, placed in a public place or open space in a town
- pawnbroker — a person whose business is lending money at interest on personal, movable property deposited with the lender until redeemed.
- rackabones — 'a rack of bones', a metaphor for a person or animal that is very thin or emaciated
- reblocking — a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more flat or approximately flat faces.
- rebukingly — in a severe and disapproving manner
- reckonable — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- reichsbank — the former German national bank.
- rickburner — an arsonist who sets fire to haystacks
- river bank — land at edge of a river
- rubberneck — to look about or stare with great curiosity, as by craning the neck or turning the head.
- sinkerball — sinker (def 5).
- sperm bank — a repository for storing sperm and keeping it viable under scientifically controlled conditions prior to its use in artificial insemination.
- stonebreak — any of a variety of plants in the genus Saxifraga
- tankbuster — an aircraft, missile, etc designed to destroy tanks
- tick-borne — carried or transmitted by ticks: tick-borne disease.
- 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.
- unworkable — practicable or feasible: He needs a workable schedule.
- wake-robin — the cuckoopint.
- windbreaks — Plural form of windbreak.