10-letter words containing b, s, k
- 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.
- klaberjass — a card game played with a 32-card pack, made by removing all cards below the sevens from a regular 52-card pack, in which scoring values are assigned to certain cards taken in tricks, to sequences in the same suit, to the king and queen of trumps, and to the last trick.
- klebsiella — any of several rod-shaped, aerobic bacteria of the genus Klebsiella, certain species of which, as K. pneumoniae, are found in the respiratory, intestinal, and genitourinary tracts of humans and animals and are sometimes pathogenic.
- 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.
- lease-back — an arrangement by which a company sells a property and simultaneously obtains a long-term lease from the buyer for continued use of the deeded property
- leasebacks — Plural form of leaseback.
- leukoblast — an immature leukocyte.
- like lambs — If you say that people do something like lambs or like lambs to the slaughter, you mean that they do what someone wants them to do without complaining or fighting.
- 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":
- maasbanker — (South Africa) A species of edible mackerel, Trachurus trachurus.
- matchbooks — Plural form of matchbook.
- mistakable — capable of being or liable to be mistaken or misunderstood.
- mistakably — In a mistakable manner.
- mossbacked — Very conservative or reactionary, with old-fashioned views.
- mossbanker — A fish, the menhaden.
- mossbunker — the menhaden.
- motorbikes — Plural form of motorbike.
- newsbreaks — Plural form of newsbreak.
- notchbacks — Plural form of notchback.
- numbskulls — Plural form of numbskull.
- out-basket — out-box.
- pick basic — Data/BASIC
- press-back — a wooden chair back having a design pressed, rather than carved, into its crossrails.
- quillbacks — Plural form of quillback.
- rackabones — 'a rack of bones', a metaphor for a person or animal that is very thin or emaciated
- reichsbank — the former German national bank.
- rustbucket — an old, run-down freighter, especially one whose hull is covered with rust.
- saddleback — any of various animals having markings on the back that resemble a saddle, as a male harp seal.
- sassy bark — sasswood.
- sb's likes — someone's favourable feelings, desires, preferences, etc
- scale back — a reduction in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaledown of military expenditures.
- scale-back — a reduction in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaledown of military expenditures.
- schaerbeek — a city in central Belgium, near Brussels.
- schoolbook — a book for study in schools.
- shark bell — a bell sounded to warn swimmers of the presence of sharks
- shell back — an underside of a spoon bowl ornamented with a shell motif.
- 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
- sickle bar — cutter bar (def 1).
- sicklebill — any of various birds having a long, curved bill, as the long-billed curlew or curve-billed thrasher.
- silverback — an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.
- sinkerball — sinker (def 5).