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10-letter words containing b, l, o, k

  • book lover — a person who enjoys reading and reads more than the average person
  • book lungs — primitive lungs of many arachnids, consisting of pagelike layers of tissue over which air circulates for respiration
  • book value — In business, the book value of an asset is the value it is given in the account books of the company that owns it.
  • bookmobile — a vehicle providing lending library facilities
  • bookseller — A bookseller is a person who sells books.
  • boot block — (operating system)   A program on a hard disk, floppy disk or other media, which is loaded when the computer is turned on or rebooted and which controls the next phase of loading the actual operating system. The loading and execution of the boot block is usually controlled by firmware in ROM or PROM. It may be at some fixed location possibly or may be pointed to by the master boot record.
  • bootlicker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
  • bottleneck — A bottleneck is a place where a road becomes narrow or where it meets another road so that the traffic slows down or stops, often causing traffic jams.
  • boullework — elaborate inlaid work of woods, metals, tortoiseshell, ivory, etc.
  • brahmaloka — the highest part of Kamaloka, where refined souls exist in blissful contemplation of Brahma.
  • brailowsky — Alexander [al-ig-zan-der,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr/ (Show IPA), 1896–1976, Russian pianist.
  • brockville — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
  • broken lot — an irregular quantity or lot of securities that is smaller than the amount normally traded
  • brookfield — a city in SE Wisconsin, near Milwaukee.
  • bulk cargo — unpackaged cargoes, such as grain or coal
  • bull block — a machine for drawing wire in which the wire is pulled through the dies by a power-operated drum.
  • bunker oil — Nautical. oil taken on board a tanker as fuel, as distinguished from the oil carried as cargo.
  • calicoback — harlequin bug
  • cellblocks — Plural form of cellblock.
  • chalkboard — A chalkboard is a dark-coloured board that you can write on with chalk. Chalkboards are often used by teachers in the classroom.
  • chop block — butcher-block.
  • chubb lock — a type of lock with a device that sets the bolt immovably if the lock is picked
  • class book — a book published by members of a school or college class, containing pictures of students and teachers, an account of student activities, etc.
  • coal-black — of a very dark black
  • cobweblike — Resembling or characteristic of a cobweb.
  • cockabully — any of several small freshwater fish of New Zealand
  • cockblocks — Plural form of cockblock.
  • cockleboat — cockboat.
  • cockleburr — Alternative form of cocklebur.
  • cockleburs — Plural form of cocklebur.
  • cockwomble — (UK,slang,derogatory) A foolish or obnoxious person.
  • cokebottle — (character, humour)   /kohk'bot-l/ Any unusual character, particularly one you can't type because it isn't on your keyboard. MIT people used to complain about the "control-meta-cokebottle" commands at SAIL, and SAIL people complained about the "altmode-altmode-cokebottle" commands at MIT. After the demise of the space-cadet keyboard, "cokebottle" was used less, but was often used to describe weird or non-intuitive keystrokes. The OSF/Motif window manager, "mwm" keystroke for switching to the default keybindings and behaviour is control-meta-bang. Since exclamation mark might be thought to look like a Coke bottle, Motif hackers referred to this keystroke as "cokebottle". See also quadruple bucky.
  • deblocking — Present participle of deblock.
  • devil book — (publication)   "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD Unix Operating System", by Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels, and John S. Quarterman (Addison-Wesley Publishers, 1989, ISBN 0-201-06196-1). The standard reference book on the internals of BSD Unix. So called because the cover has a picture depicting a little devil (a visual play on daemon) in sneakers, holding a pitchfork (referring to one of the characteristic features of Unix, the "fork(2)" system call).
  • drop black — carbon, as animal black or lampblack, formed into pellets by mixing with water or glue: used as a black pigment.
  • flakeboard — a form of particle board.
  • flat broke — having no money
  • gold brick — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
  • hucklebone — hipbone.
  • ink bottle — a bottle containing ink
  • jack block — a block used in raising or lowering a topgallant yard.
  • jailbroken — an escape from prison, especially by forcible means.
  • katabolism — Alternative form of catabolism.
  • knob latch — a latch having a spring bolt controlled by a knob on one or both sides.
  • kohlrabies — Plural form of kohlrabi.
  • koulibiaca — A Russian dish of salmon, rice etc. cooked in puff pastry.
  • lead block — any block that alters the direction of a rope; fairlead.
  • lego brick — a toy plastic brick with studs which can be connected to other plastic bricks and used to construct toy buildings, vehicles, etc
  • leukoblast — an immature leukocyte.
  • line block — a letterpress printing block made by a photoengraving process without the use of a screen
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