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

  • 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.
  • drop black — carbon, as animal black or lampblack, formed into pellets by mixing with water or glue: used as a black pigment.
  • gold brick — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
  • hucklebone — hipbone.
  • jack block — a block used in raising or lowering a topgallant yard.
  • knob latch — a latch having a spring bolt controlled by a knob on one or both sides.
  • 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
  • line block — a letterpress printing block made by a photoengraving process without the use of a screen
  • lower back — lumbar region
  • pocketable — small enough to be carried in one's pocket; pocket-size.
  • reblocking — a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more flat or approximately flat faces.
  • reckonable — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
  • 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.
  • schoolbook — a book for study in schools.
  • superblock — an area of city land larger than the usual block, treated according to a unified plan and generally closed to vehicular through traffic.
  • tchoukball — a non-contact, team-orientated, ballgame developed by the Swiss biologist Dr H. Brandt, the object of the game is to throw the ball at a frame mounted with a springy surface so that it rebounds without being caught by the defending team
  • unlockable — to undo the lock of (a door, chest, etc.), especially with a key.
  • wood block — a block of wood engraved in relief, for printing from; woodcut.
  • woodblocks — Plural form of woodblock.
  • woollyback — a person who lives in a region near, but not in, Liverpool
  • yellowback — (formerly) an inexpensive, often lurid, novel bound in yellow cloth or paper.
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