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

  • bolingbroke — the surname of Henry IV of England
  • bond market — the market in which bonds are traded
  • bone shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
  • bone-shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
  • book jacket — a removable paper cover used to protect a bound book
  • book review — a description and analysis of a new 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.
  • book-ending — a support placed at the end of a row of books to hold them upright, usually used in pairs.
  • bookbindery — a place in which books are bound
  • booking fee — a fee that some theatre and agencies charge the customer for booking through them
  • bookkeeping — Bookkeeping is the job or activity of keeping an accurate record of the money that is spent and received by a business or other organization.
  • bookselling — the activity of selling books
  • boot-licker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
  • bottle bank — A bottle bank is a large container into which people can put empty bottles so that the glass can be used again.
  • bottle rack — a rack for bottles, such as bottles of wine
  • bottle-jack — a large jack used for heavy lifts
  • bounce back — If you bounce back after a bad experience, you return very quickly to your previous level of success, enthusiasm, or activity.
  • bowie knife — a stout hunting knife with a short hilt and a guard for the hand
  • brake block — the part of the brake in a train or on a bicycle that is applied to the wheel to slow the vehicle down or stop it
  • 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.
  • break cover — (esp of game animals) to come out from a shelter or hiding place
  • break in on — to intrude on
  • break loose — to free oneself by force
  • break point — a point which allows the receiving player to break the service of the server
  • breastworks — a defensive work, usually breast high.
  • breechblock — a metal block in breech-loading firearms that is withdrawn to insert the cartridge and replaced to close the breech before firing
  • breshkovsky — Catherine, 1844–1934, Russian revolutionary of noble birth: called “the little grandmother of the Russian Revolution.”.
  • brocken bow — anticorona.
  • broken coal — anthracite in pieces ranging from 2 1/2 to 4 inches (6.5 to 11 cm) in extreme dimension; the largest commercial size, larger than egg coal.
  • broken hill — a town in SE Australia, in W New South Wales: mining centre for lead, silver, and zinc. Pop: 19 834 (2001)
  • broken home — a family in which one parent is absent, usually due to divorce or desertion: children from broken homes.
  • broken line — a discontinuous line or series of line segments, as a series of dashes, or a figure made up of line segments meeting at oblique angles.
  • broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
  • broken reed — a weak, unreliable, or ineffectual person
  • broken vein — a ruptured blood vessel
  • broken wind — heaves
  • broken-down — A broken-down vehicle or machine no longer works because it has something wrong with it.
  • brooklynese — the speech, especially the pronunciation, thought to be characteristic of a person coming from New York City, especially Brooklyn.
  • brotherlike — like a brother
  • brown snake — any of various common venomous snakes of the genus Pseudonaja
  • brushstroke — Brushstrokes are the marks made on a surface by a painter's brush.
  • bucket down — If the rain buckets down, or if it buckets down with rain, it rains very heavily.
  • bucket shop — an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
  • bucket-load — a large quantity
  • buckle down — If you buckle down to something, you start working seriously at it.
  • 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.
  • butt stroke — a blow struck with the butt of a rifle, as in close combat.
  • by the book — according to the rules; in the prescribed or usual way
  • cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
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