9-letter words containing b, s, k
- berkshire — a historic county of S England: since reorganization in 1974 the River Thames has marked the N boundary while the Berkshire Downs occupy central parts; the county council was replaced by six unitary authorities in 1998. Area: 1259 sq km (486 sq miles)
- berserker — a member of a class of ancient Norse warriors who worked themselves into a frenzy before battle and fought with insane fury and courage
- berserkly — in a berserk or crazy manner
- bespeckle — to mark with speckles
- betsiboka — a river in central Madagascar, flowing NW to the Mozambique Channel. About 200 miles (320 km) long.
- bhikshuni — a female bhikshu; nun.
- bialystok — a city in E Poland.
- białystok — a city in E Poland: belonged to Prussia (1795–1807) and to Russia (1807–1919). Pop: 315 000 (2005 est)
- big bucks — If someone earns or spends big bucks, they earn or spend a lot of money.
- big skate — See under skate2 .
- big stick — force or the threat of using force
- black sea — an inland sea between SE Europe and Asia: connected to the Aegean Sea by the Bosporus, the Sea of Marmara, and the Dardanelles, and to the Sea of Azov by the Kerch Strait. Area: about 415 000 sq km (160 000 sq miles)
- blackfish — a minnow-like Alaskan freshwater fish, Dallia pectoralis, related to the pikes and thought to be able to survive prolonged freezing
- blacklist — If someone is on a blacklist, they are seen by a government or other organization as being one of a number of people who cannot be trusted or who have done something wrong.
- blackness — Blackness is the state of being very dark.
- blackwash — to present (someone or something) in the worst possible light
- blavatsky — Elena Petrovna (jɪˈljɛnə pɪˈtrɔvnə), called Madame Blavatsky. 1831–91, Russian theosophist; author of Isis Unveiled (1877)
- bleakness — bare, desolate, and often windswept: a bleak plain.
- blockbust — to encourage the sale of property by means of blockbusting
- blockship — a ship used to block a river or channel
- bob skate — an ice skate with two parallel blades
- bobbysock — ankle-length sock worn esp by teenage girls
- bogorodsk — former name of Noginsk.
- bokassa i — original name Jean Bedel Bokassa. 1921–96, president of the Central African Republic (1972–76); emperor of the renamed Central African Empire from 1976 until overthrown in 1979
- bolshevik — Bolshevik is used to describe the political system and ideas that Lenin and his supporters introduced in Russia after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
- book list — a list of books, especially a list of recommended or required readings.
- book post — a special system and rate for posting books
- book rest — a support for an open book, usually holding it at a slight angle.
- booklouse — any small insect of the order Psocoptera, esp Trogium pulsatorium (common booklouse), a wingless species that feeds on bookbinding paste, etc
- bookmarks — a ribbon or other marker placed between the pages of a book to mark a place.
- bookshelf — A bookshelf is a shelf on which you keep books.
- bookstack — Usually, bookstacks. stack (def 4).
- bookstall — A bookstall is a long table from which books and magazines are sold, for example at a conference or in a street market.
- bookstand — a cradle for holding an open book so that it may be read comfortably
- bookstore — A bookstore is a shop where books are sold.
- boondocks — If you say that someone lives in the boondocks, you mean that they live a long way from any large cities.
- boot disk — (operating system) The magnetic disk (usually a hard disk) from which an operating system kernel is loaded (or "bootstrapped"). This second phase in system start-up is performed by a simple bootstrap loader program held in ROM, possibly configured by data stored in some form of writable non-volatile storage. Some operating systems, notably SunOS and Solaris, can be configured to boot from a network rather than from disk. Such a system can thus run as a diskless workstation.
- bop stack — A BOP stack is one of two or more units which control well pressure, and contain the wellhead and blowout preventers.
- boschvark — a bush pig of S Africa
- boskiness — the quality of being bosky
- boskopoid — of, relating to, or characteristic of Boskop man or the culture or habitat of Boskop man.
- bow shock — the shock front along which the solar wind encounters a planet's magnetic field.
- brainsick — relating to or caused by insanity; crazy; mad
- brakesman — a pithead winch operator
- breakages — things broken, usually accidentally
- breakfast — Breakfast is the first meal of the day. It is usually eaten in the early part of the morning.
- briskness — quick and active; lively: brisk trading; a brisk walk.
- brookings — Robert Somers [suhm-erz] /ˈsʌm ərz/ (Show IPA), 1850–1932, U.S. merchant and philanthropist.
- brunswick — a former duchy (1635–1918) and state (1918–46) of central Germany, now part of the state of Lower Saxony; formerly (1949–90) part of West Germany
- brushback — a pitch that narrowly misses the batter