11-letter words containing b, u, k
- 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.
- doublecheck — Alternative form of double-check.
- doublespeak — evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse.
- doublethink — the acceptance of two contradictory ideas or beliefs at the same time.
- dummy block — a freely moving cylinder for transmitting the pressure of a ram to a piece being extruded.
- fault block — a mass of rock bounded on at least two opposite sides by faults.
- golden buck — a dish consisting of Welsh rabbit topped with a poached egg.
- hash bucket — hash coding
- housebreaks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of housebreak.
- housebroken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
- huckleberry — the dark-blue or black edible berry of any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Gaylussacia of the heath family.
- hunchbacked — humpbacked.
- husbandlike — resembling a husband
- husking bee — a gathering of farm families or friends to husk corn, usually as part of a celebration or party.
- ibn khaldun — Abd-al-Rahman [ahb-dahl-rah-mahn] /ɑb dɑlˈrɑ mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1332–1406, Arab historian and philosopher.
- ibn-khaldun — 1332–1406, Arab historian and philosopher. His Kitab al-`ibar (Book of Examples) is a history of Islam
- jockey club — an association for the regulation and promotion of thoroughbred horse racing, usually composed of racing officials and thoroughbred owners at a specific racetrack or in a particular region.
- kennel club — an association of dog breeders, usually concerned only with certain breeds of dogs.
- keyed bugle — a bugle that has keys to make it possible to play a chromatic scale
- kibbutzniks — Plural form of kibbutznik.
- king's blue — cobalt blue.
- kissing bug — Informal. a person much given to kissing. an irresistible desire to kiss or be kissed.
- klausenburg — German name of Cluj-Napoca.
- knock about — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
- knockabouts — Plural form of knockabout.
- knuckleball — a slow pitch that moves erratically toward home plate, usually delivered by holding the ball between the thumb and the knuckles of the first joints of the first two or three fingers.
- knucklebone — (in humans) any of the bones forming a knuckle of a finger.
- kookaburras — Plural form of kookaburra.
- koulibiacas — Plural form of koulibiaca.
- kublai khan — 1216–94, khan c1260–94: founder of the Mongol dynasty in China (grandson of Genghis Khan).
- kuiper belt — a disk-shaped region on the edge of the solar system that contains masses of ice and icy rock, believed to be the source of comets with orbital periods of less than 200 years. Compare Oort cloud.
- lockout box — Television. lockbox (def 3).
- luckenbooth — a booth or shop capable of being locked up
- lucky break — a fortunate and unexpected turn of events
- lumberjacks — Plural form of lumberjack.
- lunch break — pause for midday meal
- make a buck — If you are trying to make a buck, you are trying to earn some money.
- make-up bag — a bag in which cosmetics are kept
- marker buoy — a buoy used to distinguish or mark something
- mecklenburg — a former state in NE Germany, formed in 1934 from two states (Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz)
- minangkabau — a member of an Indonesian people native to west-central Sumatra.
- minute book — a book in which the minutes of a meeting are recorded
- mobuto lake — Lake Albert.
- mossbunkers — Plural form of mossbunker.
- mountebanks — Plural form of mountebank.
- necker cube — a line drawing showing the 12 edges of a transparent cube, so that it can be seen alternately facing in two different directions: an example of an ambiguous figure
- number keys — keypad
- number work — simple arithmetic and similar mathematical procedures as used and studied at primary level
- numbskulled — (informal) stupid.