10-letter words containing b, s, k
- bailiwicks — Plural form of bailiwick.
- bake-wares — heat-resistant dishes, as of glass or pottery, in which food may be baked; ovenware.
- bakeapples — Plural form of bakeapple.
- bakehouses — Plural form of bakehouse.
- bakersheet — dripping pan.
- balalaikas — Plural form of balalaika.
- balashikha — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe: a NE suburb of Moscow.
- barkeepers — Plural form of barkeeper.
- barkhausen — Heinrich Georg. 1881–1956, German physicist; discovered that ferromagnetic material in an increasing magnetic field becomes magnetized in discrete jumps (the Barkhausen effect)
- basal disk — the flattened basal surface by which coelenterate polyps attach to the substrate.
- basketball — Basketball is a game in which two teams of five players each try to score goals by throwing a large ball through a circular net fixed to a metal ring at each end of the court.
- basketcase — Alternative form of basket case.
- basketlike — resembling a basket
- basketwork — work that is interlaced or woven like a basket; wickerwork
- beanstalks — Plural form of beanstalk.
- beekeepers — Plural form of beekeeper.
- belowdecks — below a ship's deck
- bergamasko — an inhabitant of Bergamo
- berkshires — Also called Berks [burks; British bahrks] /bɜrks; British bɑrks/ (Show IPA). a county in S England. 485 sq. mi. (1255 sq. km).
- bespeckled — to speckle.
- besprinkle — to sprinkle all over with liquid, powder, etc
- beta stock — any of the second rank of active securities on the Stock Exchange, of which there are about 500. Continuous display of prices by market makers is required but not immediate publication of transactions
- black bass — any of several predatory North American percoid freshwater game fishes of the genus Micropterus: family Centrarchidae (sunfishes, etc)
- black caps — any of several birds having the top of the head black, as the chickadee and certain warblers, especially the Old World blackcap, Sylvia atricapilla.
- black disc — a conventional black vinyl gramophone record as opposed to a compact disc
- black iris — a painting (1926) by Georgia O'Keeffe.
- black list — a list of persons under suspicion, disfavor, censure, etc.: His record as an anarchist put him on the government's blacklist.
- black mass — a blasphemous travesty of the Christian Mass, performed by practitioners of black magic
- black rust — a stage in any of several diseases of cereals and grasses caused by rust fungi in which black masses of spores appear on the stems or leaves
- black sage — a shrubby Californian plant, Salvia mellifera, of the mint family, having an interrupted spike of lavender-blue or white flowers.
- black sash — (formerly, in South Africa) an organization of women opposed to apartheid
- black shag — a large dark-coloured shag, Phalacrocorax carbo novaehollandis, of Australasian waters
- black site — a secret facility used by a country's military as a prison and interrogation centre, whose existence is denied by the government
- black spot — If you describe a place, time, or part of a situation as a black spot, you mean that it is particularly bad or likely to cause problems.
- black stem — a disease of plants, characterized by blackened stems and defoliation, caused by any of several fungi, as Ascochyta imperfecta or Mycosphaerella lethalis.
- black swan — a phenomenon that occurs even though it had been thought to be impossible
- blacklands — an area of fertile soil in Texas
- blacksburg — a town in SW Virginia.
- blackshirt — (in Europe) a member of a fascist organization, esp a member of the Italian Fascist party before and during World War II
- blacksmith — A blacksmith is a person whose job is making things by hand out of metal that has been heated to a high temperature.
- blacksnake — any of several Old World black venomous elapid snakes, esp Pseudechis porphyriacus (Australian blacksnake)
- blackstone — Sir William. 1723–80, English jurist noted particularly for his Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–69), which had a profound influence on jurisprudence in the US
- blackstrap — a kind of port wine
- blastodisk — germinal disk
- block mast — a short mast from the head of which a lateen yard is suspended.
- blockhouse — (formerly) a wooden fortification with ports or loopholes for defensive fire, observation, etc
- bloodstock — Horses that are bred for racing are referred to as bloodstock.
- blue dicks — a plant, Dichelostemma pulchellum, of the amaryllis family, common on the western coast of the U.S., having headlike clusters of blue flowers.
- blue shark — a shark of the species Prionace glauca, found in temperate and tropical waters
- blues-rock — a blend of rock-'n'-roll and blues.