11-letter words containing b, u, k
- buck rabbit — Welsh rabbit with either an egg or a piece of toast on top
- 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 down — If the rain buckets down, or if it buckets down with rain, it rains very heavily.
- 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
- bucket-load — a large quantity
- buckjumping — a competitive event for buckjumpers in a rodeo
- buckle down — If you buckle down to something, you start working seriously at it.
- buckskinned — made of buckskin
- bukhara rug — a kind of rug, typically having a black-and-white geometrical pattern on a reddish ground
- bulk buying — the purchase at one time, and often at a reduced price, of a large quantity of a particular commodity
- bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
- bull market — A bull market is a situation on the stock market when people are buying a lot of shares because they expect that the shares will increase in value and that they will be able to make a profit by selling them again after a short time. Compare bear market.
- bull-necked — having a short thick neck
- bullwhacker — (especially in the early 19th century) the driver of a team of oxen.
- bumper jack — a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper.
- bundelkhand — a region of central India: formerly native states, now mainly part of Madhya Pradesh
- bunker hill — the first battle of the American Revolution, actually fought on Breed's Hill, next to Bunker Hill, near Boston, on June 17, 1775. Though defeated, the colonists proved that they could stand against British regular soldiers
- burkburnett — a town in N Texas.
- 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
- cabin trunk — a large trunk specially designed to be used on journeys, and often having large handles at either end to make it easy to move
- cheque book — A cheque book is a book of cheques which your bank gives you so that you can pay for things by cheque.
- chuck-berry — Charles Edward Anderson ("Chuck") born 1926, U.S. rock-'n'-roll singer, musician, and composer.
- chukka boot — an ankle-high boot made of suede or rubber and worn for playing polo
- church book — any of various books commonly used by a church, as a service book or a parish register.
- course book — A course book is a textbook that students and teachers use as the basis of a course.
- curb market — curb (def 5).
- dark nebula — a type of nebula that is observed by its blocking of radiation from other sources
- double back — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
- double ikat — a method of printing woven fabric by tie-dyeing the warp yarns (warp ikat) the weft yarns (weft ikat) or both (double ikat) before weaving.
- double knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
- double knot — any of various knots that are reinforced with a second tying
- double lock — a spring lock that can also serve as a deadbolt by an extra turn of the key
- double take — a rapid or surprised second look, either literal or figurative, at a person or situation whose significance had not been completely grasped at first: His friends did a double take when they saw how much weight he had lost.
- double talk — speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.
- double-bank — to have two rowers pull (each of a number of oars).
- double-book — to overbook by accepting more than one reservation for the same hotel room, airplane seat, etc.
- double-deck — Also, double-decked. having two decks, tiers, or levels: a double-deck bunk; a double-deck bus.
- double-knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
- double-lock — to lock with two turns of a key, so that a second bolt is engaged.
- double-park — If someone double-parks their car or their car double-parks, they park in a road by the side of another parked car.