11-letter words containing b, i, k, l
- boilermaker — a person who works with metal in heavy industry; plater or welder
- bolingbroke — the surname of Henry IV of England
- bolingbrook — a city in NE Illinois.
- book titles — (publication) There is a tradition in hackerdom of informally tagging important textbooks and standards documents with the dominant colour of their covers or with some other conspicuous feature of the cover. Many of these are described in this dictionary under their own entries. See Aluminum Book, Blue Book, Cinderella Book, Devil Book, Dragon Book, Green Book, Orange Book, Pink-Shirt Book, Purple Book, Red Book, Silver Book, White Book, Wizard Book, Yellow Book, bible, rainbow series.
- bookselling — the activity of selling books
- boot-licker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- bootlicking — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- brake fluid — an oily liquid used to transmit pressure in a hydraulic brake or clutch system
- brake light — a red light attached to the rear of a motor vehicle that lights up when the brakes are applied, serving as a warning to following drivers
- breast milk — Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies.
- brecksville — a town in N Ohio.
- brick-built — made of bricks
- bricklaying — the technique or practice of laying bricks
- bristlelike — resembling a bristle
- broken hill — a town in SE Australia, in W New South Wales: mining centre for lead, silver, and zinc. Pop: 19 834 (2001)
- 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.
- brotherlike — like a brother
- bucket list — a list of experiences one wants to have before one dies
- bulk buying — the purchase at one time, and often at a reduced price, of a large quantity of a particular commodity
- bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
- 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
- bushwalking — an expedition on foot in the bush
- 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.
- cliff brake — any of several common ferns of the genus Pellaea, usually growing in pockets of thin soil on rocks.
- cyberskills — Skills in using computer technology.
- dislikeable — Alternative spelling of dislikable.
- double ikat — a method of printing woven fabric by tie-dyeing the warp yarns (warp ikat) the weft yarns (weft ikat) or both (double ikat) before weaving.
- double knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
- double-knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
- doublethink — the acceptance of two contradictory ideas or beliefs at the same time.
- fiddle back — a chair back having a solid splat similar in form to that of a fiddle.
- fiddle-back — a chair back having a solid splat similar in form to that of a fiddle.
- goldbricked — Simple past tense and past participle of goldbrick.
- goldbricker — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
- husbandlike — resembling a husband
- ibn khaldun — Abd-al-Rahman [ahb-dahl-rah-mahn] /ɑb dɑlˈrɑ mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1332–1406, Arab historian and philosopher.
- ibn-khaldun — 1332–1406, Arab historian and philosopher. His Kitab al-`ibar (Book of Examples) is a history of Islam
- irrevokable — Alternative spelling of irrevocable.
- ivory black — a fine black pigment made by calcining ivory.
- jailbreaker — One who breaks out of jail.
- kabbalistic — cabalistic.
- killer bars — an imprint consisting of a series of wavy lines used to cancel postage stamps.
- killer blow — something that puts a stop to something or defeats something
- killer boat — a boat used for hunting whales and towing them to a factory ship.
- king's blue — cobalt blue.
- knowability — capable of being known.
- koulibiacas — Plural form of koulibiaca.
- kublai khan — 1216–94, khan c1260–94: founder of the Mongol dynasty in China (grandson of Genghis Khan).
- kuiper belt — a disk-shaped region on the edge of the solar system that contains masses of ice and icy rock, believed to be the source of comets with orbital periods of less than 200 years. Compare Oort cloud.