10-letter words containing b, i, o, k
- kickboards — Plural form of kickboard.
- kickboxing — a form of boxing in which the gloved combatants may also kick with bare feet.
- king cobra — a cobra, Ophiophagus hannah, of southeastern Asia and the East Indies, that grows to a length of more than 15 feet (5 meters): the largest of the venomous snakes.
- knobbiness — the quality or condition of being knobby
- knobkerrie — a short, heavy wooden club with a knob on one end, used especially by native peoples of South Africa for striking and throwing.
- kohlrabies — Plural form of kohlrabi.
- 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.
- koobi fora — an archaeological locality on the northeastern side of Lake Rudolf, in northern Kenya, yielding important early hominid fossils and some of the oldest hominid areas with stone tools, bone food waste, and possible evidence of fire use, dating from one to two million years ago.
- koulibiaca — A Russian dish of salmon, rice etc. cooked in puff pastry.
- lego brick — a toy plastic brick with studs which can be connected to other plastic bricks and used to construct toy buildings, vehicles, etc
- line block — a letterpress printing block made by a photoengraving process without the use of a screen
- lions book — (publication) "Source Code and Commentary on Unix level 6", by John Lions. The two parts of this book contained the entire source listing of the Unix Version 6 kernel, and a commentary on the source discussing the algorithms. These were circulated internally at the University of New South Wales beginning 1976-77, and were, for years after, the *only* detailed kernel documentation available to anyone outside Bell Labs. Because Western Electric wished to maintain trade secret status on the kernel, the Lions book was never formally published and was only supposed to be distributed to affiliates of source licensees (it is still possible to get a Bell Labs reprint of the book by sending a copy of a V6 source licence to the right person at Bellcore, but *real* insiders have the UNSW edition). In spite of this, it soon spread by samizdat to a good many of the early Unix hackers. In 1996 it was reprinted as a "classic":
- māori bunk — a raised sleeping platform
- motorbikes — Plural form of motorbike.
- nabokovian — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary style of Vladimir Nabokov: a sly, Nabokovian sense of the absurd.
- nonbanking — (finance) Outside of banking.
- oikophobia — Ecophobia; fear of a home environment.
- picketboat — a boat which keeps guard
- pik pobedy — Russian name of Pobeda Peak.
- portakabin — A Portakabin is a small building that can be moved by truck and that can be used for a short period of time, for example as a temporary office.
- reblocking — a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more flat or approximately flat faces.
- rock climb — an instance of rock climbing or the route followed
- rockabilly — a style of popular music combining the features of rock-'n'-roll and hillbilly music.
- shikibuton — futon.
- spoil bank — a bank of excavated refuse or waste earth, as of shale from surface coal mining.
- stink bomb — a small glass globe, used by practical jokers: it releases a liquid with an offensive smell when broken
- storksbill — Also called heron's-bill. any of various plants belonging to the genus Erodium, of the geranium family, having deeply lobed leaves, loose clusters of pink, purple, white, or yellow flowers, and long, slender fruit.
- subkingdom — a category of related phyla within a kingdom.
- tick-borne — carried or transmitted by ticks: tick-borne disease.
- timberwork — structural work formed of timbers.
- wake-robin — the cuckoopint.
- whiskbroom — A small hand broom, with a short handle, for brushing clothes.
- white book — an official report issued by a government, usually bound in white.
- zombielike — Similar to a zombie, having the appearance or character of a zombie.