10-letter words containing b, o, a, k
- 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.
- kookaburra — an Australian kingfisher, Dacelo gigas, having a loud, harsh cry that resembles laughter.
- kota bharu — a state in Malaysia, on the central Malay Peninsula. 5750 sq. mi. (14,893 sq. km). Capital: Kota Bharu.
- koulibiaca — A Russian dish of salmon, rice etc. cooked in puff pastry.
- lead block — any block that alters the direction of a rope; fairlead.
- leukoblast — an immature leukocyte.
- lower back — lumbar region
- māori bunk — a raised sleeping platform
- matchbooks — Plural form of matchbook.
- mossbacked — Very conservative or reactionary, with old-fashioned views.
- mossbanker — A fish, the menhaden.
- mountebank — A person who deceives others, especially in order to trick them out of their money; a charlatan.
- muck about — moist farmyard dung, decaying vegetable matter, etc.; manure.
- nabokovian — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary style of Vladimir Nabokov: a sly, Nabokovian sense of the absurd.
- narrowback — a person of slight build who is unfit for hard labor.
- noel-baker — Philip John, 1889–1982, British statesman and author: Nobel Peace Prize 1959.
- nonbanking — (finance) Outside of banking.
- notchbacks — Plural form of notchback.
- oak harbor — a town in NW Washington.
- oikophobia — Ecophobia; fear of a home environment.
- organ bank — a facility that manages organs for transplant
- out-basket — out-box.
- over-break — earth or rock excavated outside of neat lines.
- overbanked — Furnished with too many banks (financial institutions).
- oxbow lake — a U -shaped piece of wood placed under and around the neck of an ox with its upper ends in the bar of the yoke.
- oxbow-lake — a U -shaped piece of wood placed under and around the neck of an ox with its upper ends in the bar of the yoke.
- pawnbroker — a person whose business is lending money at interest on personal, movable property deposited with the lender until redeemed.
- picketboat — a boat which keeps guard
- playbroker — play agent.
- pocketable — small enough to be carried in one's pocket; pocket-size.
- 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.
- provokable — able to be provoked
- rackabones — 'a rack of bones', a metaphor for a person or animal that is very thin or emaciated
- reckonable — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- rekeyboard — to enter (information) again on a keyboard or other similar device
- roach back — an arched back, as of a dog.
- rock brake — any of various ferns of the genera Pellaea and Cryptogramma, which grow on rocky ground and have sori at the ends of the veins
- rockabilly — a style of popular music combining the features of rock-'n'-roll and hillbilly music.
- 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.
- smokeboard — a board situated above a fireplace to prevent the emission of smoke into a room
- spoil bank — a bank of excavated refuse or waste earth, as of shale from surface coal mining.
- spoon back — a back of a chair or the like, having a splat curved outward at the bottom.
- squawk box — the speaker of a public-address system or an intercom system; loudspeaker.
- 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.
- stonebreak — any of a variety of plants in the genus Saxifraga
- strongbark — any of the several tropical American shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Bourreria, of the borage family, especially B. ovata, of southern Florida and the West Indies, having elliptic leaves and fragrant, white flowers.
- swatchbook — a booklet containing samples (of paper, cloth, etc)
- szymborska — Wislawa [vis-lah-vah] /vɪsˈlɑ vɑ/ (Show IPA), 1923–2012, Polish poet: Nobel prize 1996.
- take a bow — to bend the knee or body or incline the head, as in reverence, submission, salutation, recognition, or acknowledgment.