10-letter words containing b, o, s, k
- cheekbones — Plural form of cheekbone.
- 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.
- cockblocks — Plural form of cockblock.
- cockleburs — Plural form of cocklebur.
- cockscombs — Plural form of cockscomb.
- corkboards — Plural form of corkboard.
- coursebook — a book studied on an educational course
- cross buck — an offensive play in which two running backs cross paths and charge into the line on opposite sides, one back receiving the ball from the quarterback and the other back faking possession.
- desk-bound — engaged in or involving sedentary work, as at an office desk
- dobzhansky — Theodosius (Grigorievich) [gri-gawr-ee-uh-vich,, -gohr-] /grɪˈgɔr i ə vɪtʃ,, -ˈgoʊr-/ (Show IPA), 1900–75, U.S. geneticist, born in Russia.
- dog basket — a basket for a dog to sleep in
- doukhobors — Dukhobors
- duckboards — Plural form of duckboard.
- go berserk — If someone or something goes berserk, they lose control of themselves and become very angry or violent.
- gobsmacked — utterly astounded; astonished.
- guest book — (web) The electronic equivalent of the physical notebooks found in some small hotels, in which visitors can write their names, comments and suggestions for the benefit of the proprietors and future visitors or purely for posterity. The electronic version is a form on a website into which users can enter similar details for display on the site.
- guidebooks — Plural form of guidebook.
- housebreak — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- housebroke — Simple past form of housebreak.
- jabotinsky — Vladimir, 1880–1940, Russian Zionist leader in Palestine.
- job seeker — a person who is actively looking for employment.
- jobseekers — Plural form of jobseeker.
- junk bonds — any corporate bond with a low rating and a high yield, often involving high risk.
- katabolism — Alternative form of catabolism.
- keep books — to keep a record of business transactions
- kerbstones — Plural form of kerbstone.
- khabarovsk — Formerly Far Eastern Region. a territory of the Russian Federation in NE Asia. 965,400 sq. mi. (2,500,400 sq. km).
- kickboards — Plural form of kickboard.
- knobbiness — the quality or condition of being knobby
- knockbacks — Plural form of knockback.
- 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.
- leukoblast — an immature leukocyte.
- 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":
- matchbooks — Plural form of matchbook.
- mossbacked — Very conservative or reactionary, with old-fashioned views.
- mossbanker — A fish, the menhaden.
- mossbunker — the menhaden.
- motorbikes — Plural form of motorbike.
- notchbacks — Plural form of notchback.
- out-basket — out-box.
- rackabones — 'a rack of bones', a metaphor for a person or animal that is very thin or emaciated
- schoolbook — a book for study in schools.
- sherbrooke — a city in S Quebec, in SE Canada.
- shikibuton — futon.
- shock tube — an apparatus in which a gas is heated to very high temperatures by means of a shock wave, usually for spectroscopic investigation of the natures and reactions of the resulting radicals and excited molecules
- 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.
- sketchbook — Also, sketchpad. a book or pad of drawing paper for sketches.
- smoke bomb — a bomb that produces a continuous discharge of smoke rather than an explosion, used to mark a target for aerial attack, indicate wind direction, produce a smoke screen, etc.
- smokeboard — a board situated above a fireplace to prevent the emission of smoke into a room