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11-letter words containing e, b, o, k

  • outbreaking — The act of breaking out.
  • outer banks — chain of long, narrow, sandy islands, along the coast of N.C.
  • overblanket — a blanket that is placed on a bed on top of the other bedding
  • overbooking — Present participle of overbook.
  • packet boat — a boat that travels a regular route, as along a coast or on a river, carrying passengers, freight, and mail
  • phrase book — a small book containing everyday phrases and sentences and their equivalents in a foreign language, written especially for travelers.
  • picket boat — a vessel used to patrol a harbor.
  • plate block — a block of four or more stamps containing the number or numbers of the printing plate or plates in the margin of the sheet.
  • pobeda peak — a mountain in central Asia, on the boundary between Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan) and China: highest peak of the Tien Shan range. 24,406 feet (7439 meters).
  • pocket book — a book small enough to be carried in one's pocket
  • poke bonnet — a bonnet with a projecting front brim
  • pork barrel — a government appropriation, bill, or policy that supplies funds for local improvements designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents.
  • power brake — an automotive brake set by pressure from some power source, as a compressed-air reservoir, in proportion to a smaller amount of pressure on the brake pedal.
  • powerbroker — a person who wields great political, governmental, or financial power.
  • prayer book — a book containing formal prayers to be used in public or private religious devotions.
  • prony brake — a friction brake serving as a dynamometer for measuring torque.
  • purple book — 1.   (publication)   The "System V Interface Definition". The covers of the first editions were an amazingly nauseating shade of off-lavender. 2.   (publication)   The Wizard Book. See also book titles.
  • puzzle book — a book of games or questions presenting problems that require skill or ingenuity for their solution
  • rainbowlike — resembling a rainbow
  • recipe book — a book containing lists of ingredients and directions for making different food dishes
  • record book — log
  • report back — If you report back to someone, you tell them about something that they asked you to find out about.
  • rock beauty — a gold and black butterflyfish, Holocanthus tricolor, ranging from the West Indies to Brazil.
  • rock blenny — a prickleback, Xiphister mucosus, of the Pacific coast from southern California to Alaska.
  • rock-ribbed — having ribs or ridges of rock: the rock-ribbed coast of Maine.
  • rocket bomb — an aerial bomb equipped with a rocket for added velocity after being dropped from an aircraft.
  • sample book — a number of pieces of fabric, wallpaper, etc fastened together at one edge, for people to examine when trying to choose which example to buy
  • sealed book — something beyond understanding and therefore unknown.
  • shacklebone — the wrist
  • shcherbakov — a former name (1946–57) of Andropov.
  • ship-broker — a person who acts for a shipowner by getting cargo and passengers for his ships and also handling insurance and other matters
  • shopbreaker — a robber who breaks into a shop
  • shovel beak — a deformity of the beak in intensively reared chicks
  • silver book — (publication)   Jensen and Wirth's infamous "Pascal User Manual and Report", so called because of the silver cover of the widely distributed Springer-Verlag second edition of 1978 (ISBN 0-387-90144-2). See also book titles, Pascal.
  • skatemobile — a scooterlike vehicle built of boxes, boards, or the like, and mounted on skate wheels.
  • sketch book — a collection of essays and stories (1819–20) by Washington Irving.
  • skinner box — a box used in experiments in animal learning, especially in operant conditioning, equipped with a mechanism that automatically gives the animal food or other reward or permits escape, as by opening a door.
  • slop bucket — slop pail.
  • smokey bear — an officer or officers of a state highway patrol.
  • source book — an original writing, as a document, record, or diary, that supplies an authoritative basis for future writing, study, evaluation, etc.
  • step reebok — a set of aerobic exercises designed to improve the cardiovascular system, which consists of stepping on and off a special box of adjustable height
  • stockbroker — a broker, especially one employed by a member firm of a stock exchange, who buys and sells stocks and other securities for customers.
  • stockjobber — a stock salesperson, especially one who sells or promotes worthless securities.
  • stone broke — having no money whatsoever.
  • stone-broke — having no money whatsoever.
  • stony-broke — completely without money; penniless
  • strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
  • subnotebook — a laptop computer smaller and lighter than a notebook, typically weighing less than 5 pounds (2.3 kg).
  • swage block — an iron block containing holes and grooves of various sizes, used for heading bolts and shaping objects not easily worked on an anvil.
  • swivelblock — a block that supports a swivel
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