11-letter words containing b, s, k
- bone shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
- bone-shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
- bonus stock — shares of stock, usually common, given by a corporation as a bonus with the purchase of another class of security
- book rights — the legal right to make use of the text of a printed book
- book titles — (publication) There is a tradition in hackerdom of informally tagging important textbooks and standards documents with the dominant colour of their covers or with some other conspicuous feature of the cover. Many of these are described in this dictionary under their own entries. See Aluminum Book, Blue Book, Cinderella Book, Devil Book, Dragon Book, Green Book, Orange Book, Pink-Shirt Book, Purple Book, Red Book, Silver Book, White Book, Wizard Book, Yellow Book, bible, rainbow series.
- bookselling — the activity of selling books
- bracket saw — a handsaw for cutting curved forms.
- brake servo — The brake servo is a device for increasing the pressure of the driver's foot on the brake pedal.
- bram stoker — Bram [bram] /bræm/ (Show IPA), (Abraham Stoker) 1847–1912, British novelist, born in Ireland: creator of Dracula.
- brankursine — a bear's-breech, a type of acanthus plant
- brass tacks — basic realities; hard facts (esp in the phrase get down to brass tacks)
- breadbasket — a basket for carrying bread or rolls
- breadsticks — bread baked in long thin crisp sticks
- break loose — to free oneself by force
- break ranks — to fall out of line, esp when under attack
- breakfasted — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
- breast milk — Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies.
- breastworks — a defensive work, usually breast high.
- brecksville — a town in N Ohio.
- breshkovsky — Catherine, 1844–1934, Russian revolutionary of noble birth: called “the little grandmother of the Russian Revolution.”.
- brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
- bristlelike — resembling a bristle
- brooklynese — the speech, especially the pronunciation, thought to be characteristic of a person coming from New York City, especially Brooklyn.
- brown snake — any of various common venomous snakes of the genus Pseudonaja
- brush maker — a manufacturer or crafter of brushes
- brushstroke — Brushstrokes are the marks made on a surface by a painter's brush.
- buck passer — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
- buck's fizz — Buck's Fizz is a drink made by mixing champagne or another fizzy white wine with orange juice.
- buck-passer — a person who regularly seeks to shift blame or responsibility to someone else
- bucket list — a list of experiences one wants to have before one dies
- bucket seat — A bucket seat is a seat for one person in a car or aeroplane which has rounded sides that partly enclose and support the body.
- bucket shop — an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
- buckskinned — made of buckskin
- bus network — (networking) A network topology in which all nodes are connected to a single wire or set of wires (the bus). Bus networks typically use CSMA/CD techniques to determine which node should transmit data at any given time. Some networks are implemented as a bus, e.g. Ethernet - a one-bit bus operating at 10, 100, 1000 or 10,000 megabits per second. Originally Ethernet was a physical layer bus consisting of a wire (with terminators at each end) to which each node was attached. Switched Ethernet, while no longer physically a bus still acts as one at the logical layers.
- bush jacket — a casual jacket or shirt having four patch pockets and a belt
- bush shrike — any shrike of the African subfamily Malaconotinae, such as Chlorophoneus nigrifrons (black-fronted bush shrike)
- bush tucker — any wild animal, insect, plant or plant extract, etc traditionally used as food by native Australians
- bushwalking — an expedition on foot in the bush
- bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
- butt stroke — a blow struck with the butt of a rifle, as in close combat.
- butt-cheeks — the flesh of the buttocks
- canvas-back — a North American wild duck, Aythya valisineria, the male of which has a whitish back and a reddish-brown head and neck.
- canvasbacks — Plural form of canvasback.
- 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
- chalkboards — Plural form of chalkboard.
- chargebacks — Plural form of chargeback.
- chelyabinsk — an industrial city in SW Russia; in 2013 a large meteor exploded in an airburst over the city's surrounding district. Pop: 1 067 000 (2005 est)
- chip basket — a wire basket for holding potato chips, etc, while frying in deep fat
- closed book — something deemed unknown or incapable of being understood