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11-letter words containing b, r, a, c, k

  • black dwarf — a cold, dark dwarf star
  • black friar — a Dominican friar
  • black frost — a frost without snow or rime that is severe enough to blacken vegetation
  • black humor — a form of humor that regards human suffering as absurd rather than pitiable, or that considers human existence as ironic and pointless but somehow comic.
  • black ivory — Black slaves collectively
  • black maria — a police van for transporting prisoners
  • black perch — a livebearing surfperch, Embiotoca jacksoni, occurring in abundance along the coast of California, having brownish-black scales often tinged with blue or yellow and a thick, reddish mouth.
  • black power — a social, economic, and political movement of Black people, esp in the US, to obtain equality with White people
  • black racer — blacksnake (def 1).
  • black shirt — a member of any fascist organization (specif., the former Italian Fascist party) with a black-shirted uniform
  • black water — household waste water that cannot be reused without purification
  • blackbirder — a person or vessel involved in the capture and transportation of slaves
  • blackhander — a member of a Black Hand group
  • blacklister — someone who blacklists
  • block grant — (in Britain) an annual grant made by the government to a local authority to help to pay for the public services it provides, such as health, education, and housing
  • block party — A block party is an outdoor party for all the residents of a block or neighborhood.
  • block trade — the purchase and sale of blocks of securities through brokers, sometimes not members of an exchange, who negotiate between buyers and sellers.
  • board check — a body check in which the opponent is thrown against the wooden wall enclosing the rink. Compare check1 (def 37).
  • body packer — a smuggler of illegal drugs, especially one who swallows bags containing them.
  • body-packer — a person who smuggles illicit drugs in balloons, condoms, or similar plastic bags which have either been swallowed or inserted in the rectum or vagina
  • bottle rack — a rack for bottles, such as bottles of wine
  • bracket saw — a handsaw for cutting curved forms.
  • brake block — the part of the brake in a train or on a bicycle that is applied to the wheel to slow the vehicle down or stop it
  • brake cable — a cable that connects a brake handle, pedal, or lever to a vehicle's braking mechanism
  • brass tacks — basic realities; hard facts (esp in the phrase get down to brass tacks)
  • breadsticks — bread baked in long thin crisp sticks
  • break cover — (esp of game animals) to come out from a shelter or hiding place
  • break dance — an acrobatic dance style originating in the 1980s
  • breakdancer — a person who does breakdancing
  • bricklaying — the technique or practice of laying bricks
  • brickmaking — the activity of making bricks
  • brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
  • broken coal — anthracite in pieces ranging from 2 1/2 to 4 inches (6.5 to 11 cm) in extreme dimension; the largest commercial size, larger than egg coal.
  • buck passer — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
  • buck rabbit — Welsh rabbit with either an egg or a piece of toast on top
  • buck-passer — a person who regularly seeks to shift blame or responsibility to someone else
  • bullwhacker — (especially in the early 19th century) the driver of a team of oxen.
  • bumper jack — a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper.
  • bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
  • cabin trunk — a large trunk specially designed to be used on journeys, and often having large handles at either end to make it easy to move
  • cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
  • cackleberry — a hen's egg used for food.
  • carbon sink — areas of vegetation, esp forests, and the phytoplankton-rich seas that absorb the carbon dioxide produced by the burning of fossil fuels
  • cassia bark — the cinnamon-like bark of this tree, used as a spice
  • center back — the player in the middle of the back line.
  • chalkboards — Plural form of chalkboard.
  • chargebacks — Plural form of chargeback.
  • checker cab — a taxi with a checked pattern as part of the trim
  • clark gable — (William) Clark, 1901–60, U.S. film actor.
  • cliff brake — any of several common ferns of the genus Pellaea, usually growing in pockets of thin soil on rocks.
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