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10-letter words containing e, n, k

  • barkhausen — Heinrich Georg. 1881–1956, German physicist; discovered that ferromagnetic material in an increasing magnetic field becomes magnetized in discrete jumps (the Barkhausen effect)
  • be in luck — You can say someone is in luck when they are in a situation where they can have what they want or need.
  • beanie key — feature key
  • beanstalks — Plural form of beanstalk.
  • beekeeping — Beekeeping is the practice of owning and taking care of bees.
  • bell crank — a lever with two arms having a common fulcrum at their junction
  • belly tank — a fuel tank in the belly of a plane
  • bench hook — a device with a hooklike part fitting over the front edge of a workbench as a means of preventing an object from slipping toward the rear of the bench.
  • bench mark — a surveyor's mark made on a permanent landmark of known position and altitude: it is used as a reference point in determining other altitudes
  • bench work — work done at a workbench, worktable, etc., as in a factory or laboratory.
  • berkeleian — denoting or relating to the philosophy of George Berkeley
  • besprinkle — to sprinkle all over with liquid, powder, etc
  • birkenhead — a port in NW England, in Wirral unitary authority, Merseyside: former shipbuilding centre. Pop: 83 729 (2001)
  • black bean — an Australian leguminous tree, Castanospermum australe, having thin smooth bark and yellow or reddish flowers: used in furniture manufacture
  • black tern — a small tern with a black head and body, Chlidonias niger, found on all continents except Australasia
  • blacksnake — any of several Old World black venomous elapid snakes, esp Pseudechis porphyriacus (Australian blacksnake)
  • blackstone — Sir William. 1723–80, English jurist noted particularly for his Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–69), which had a profound influence on jurisprudence in the US
  • blank tape — magnetic tape that has no recorded sound or image, as an unused or erased tape.
  • blanketing — a large, rectangular piece of soft fabric, often with bound edges, used especially for warmth as a bed covering.
  • block line — a rope or cable used in a block and tackle
  • bone black — a fine charcoal made by burning animal bones in closed containers: used as a pigment, in refining sugar, etc.
  • boneshaker — an early type of bicycle having solid tyres and no springs
  • bonkbuster — a novel characterized by graphic descriptions of the heroine's frequent sexual encounters
  • book token — a gift token to be exchanged for books
  • book-ended — a support placed at the end of a row of books to hold them upright, usually used in pairs.
  • bookbinder — A bookbinder is a person whose job is fastening books together and putting covers on them.
  • boondocker — combat boot.
  • bottleneck — A bottleneck is a place where a road becomes narrow or where it meets another road so that the traffic slows down or stops, often causing traffic jams.
  • bounceback — the act or an instance of bouncing back, recovering, or recuperating: Fall sales have experienced a tremendous bounceback.
  • bousingken — a drinking house frequented by thieves or other disreputable characters
  • bracketing — a set of brackets
  • brake band — a strip of fabric, leather, or metal tightened around a pulley or shaft to act as a brake
  • brass neck — effrontery; nerve
  • breadknife — a knife, usually with a serrated blade, used for cutting slices from a loaf of bread
  • break down — If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
  • break even — to attain a level of activity, as in commerce, or a point of operation, as in gambling, at which there is neither profit nor loss
  • break into — If someone breaks into a building, they get into it by force.
  • break wind — to emit wind from the anus
  • break-even — having income exactly equal to expenditure, thus showing neither profit nor loss.
  • breakdance — to perform break dancing.
  • breakfront — (of a bookcase, bureau, etc) having a slightly projecting central section
  • breakpoint — an instruction inserted by a debug program causing a return to the debug program
  • broken ice — sea ice that covers from 50 to 80 percent of the surface of water in any particular area.
  • broken lot — an irregular quantity or lot of securities that is smaller than the amount normally traded
  • brokenness — the quality of being broken
  • brookhaven — a town in SW Mississippi.
  • buck naked — Someone who is buck naked is not wearing any clothes at all.
  • buena park — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 78,000
  • bull snake — any burrowing North American nonvenomous colubrid snake of the genus Pituophis, typically having yellow and brown markings
  • bundesbank — the central bank of Germany
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