10-letter words containing b, s, k
- bobbysocks — ankle-length socks worn by teenage girls, esp in the US in the 1940s
- bolsheviks — a member of the more radical majority of the Social Democratic Party, 1903–17, advocating immediate and forceful seizure of power by the proletariat. (after 1918) a member of the Russian Communist Party.
- boneshaker — an early type of bicycle having solid tyres and no springs
- bonkbuster — a novel characterized by graphic descriptions of the heroine's frequent sexual encounters
- bonus pack — anything sold with a product and marketed as a useful and free extra
- book louse — any of various small, usually wingless, insects (order Psocoptera) that infest and destroy old books
- book lungs — primitive lungs of many arachnids, consisting of pagelike layers of tissue over which air circulates for respiration
- book share — a share of a mutual fund credited to the account of a shareholder without the physical issuance of a certificate evidencing ownership.
- bookseller — A bookseller is a person who sells books.
- boris bike — any bicycle rented out by London's public bicycle hire scheme
- boskop man — the undated cranial remains of a possible Homo sapiens found in the Transvaal of South Africa.
- boss cocky — a boss or person in power
- bousingken — a drinking house frequented by thieves or other disreputable characters
- brailowsky — Alexander [al-ig-zan-der,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr/ (Show IPA), 1896–1976, Russian pianist.
- brake disc — a metal disc that revolves with the wheel in a disc brake
- brake shoe — the curved metal casting to which the brake lining is riveted in a drum brake
- brass neck — effrontery; nerve
- breadstick — bread baked in a long thin crisp stick
- break step — to cease to march in step
- breakables — objects that are delicate and could be easily broken
- breastwork — a temporary defensive work, usually breast-high
- brickworks — a factory or plant where bricks are made
- brockhouse — Bertram Neville, 1918–2003, Canadian physicist: Nobel Prize 1994.
- brokenness — the quality of being broken
- brokership — an agent who buys or sells for a principal on a commission basis without having title to the property.
- broomstick — A broomstick is an old-fashioned broom which has a bunch of small sticks at the end.
- buckpasser — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
- bucky bits — /buh'kee bits/ 1. Obsolete. The bits produced by the CONTROL and META shift keys on a SAIL keyboard (octal 200 and 400 respectively), resulting in a 9-bit keyboard character set. The MIT AI TV (Knight) keyboards extended this with TOP and separate left and right CONTROL and META keys, resulting in a 12-bit character set; later, LISP Machines added such keys as SUPER, HYPER, and GREEK (see space-cadet keyboard). 2. By extension, bits associated with "extra" shift keys on any keyboard, e.g. the ALT on an IBM PC or command and option keys on a Macintosh. It has long been rumored that "bucky bits" were named after Buckminster Fuller during a period when he was consulting at Stanford. Actually, bucky bits were invented by Niklaus Wirth when *he* was at Stanford in 1964--65; he first suggested the idea of an EDIT key to set the 8th bit of an otherwise 7 bit ASCII character. It seems that, unknown to Wirth, certain Stanford hackers had privately nicknamed him "Bucky" after a prominent portion of his dental anatomy, and this nickname transferred to the bit. Bucky-bit commands were used in a number of editors written at Stanford, including most notably TV-EDIT and NLS. The term spread to MIT and CMU early and is now in general use. Ironically, Wirth himself remained unaware of its derivation for nearly 30 years, until GLS dug up this history in early 1993! See double bucky, quadruple bucky.
- buff stick — a small stick covered with leather or the like, used in polishing.
- bull shark — a requiem shark, Carcharhinus leucas, inhabiting shallow waters from North Carolina to Brazil.
- bull snake — any burrowing North American nonvenomous colubrid snake of the genus Pituophis, typically having yellow and brown markings
- bumpkinish — like a bumpkin
- bumsucking — obsequious behaviour; toadying
- bundesbank — the central bank of Germany
- burushaski — a language of NW Kashmir, not known to be related to any other language.
- bush knife — a large heavy knife suitable for outdoor use
- bushwalker — a person who hikes through bushland
- by mistake — accidentally, not on purpose
- canebrakes — Plural form of canebrake.
- canvasback — a North American diving duck, Aythyra valisineria, the male of which has a white body and reddish-brown head
- cat basket — a basket used for transporting a cat
- cellblocks — Plural form of cellblock.
- cheboksary — a port in W central Russia on the River Volga: capital of the Chuvash Republic. Pop: 446 000 (2005 est)
- check stub — A check stub is the part of a check that is kept by the payee with information such as the check number, date, and amount.
- checkbooks — Plural form of checkbook.
- cheekbones — Plural form of cheekbone.
- chubsucker — any of several stout suckers of the genus Erimyzon, inhabiting sluggish streams, backwaters, and lakes of the central and eastern U.S.
- clarksburg — a city in N West Virginia, on the Monongahela River.
- 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.
- club steak — a small steak that is cut from the short loin of beef and contains no part of the tenderloin