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11-letter words containing e, n, k

  • bank robber — someone who steals from a bank, often using violence
  • barebacking — sexual intercourse performed without the use of a condom
  • bareknuckle — (of a prizefight, prizefighter, etc.) without boxing gloves; using the bare fists.
  • barrel knot — a knot for fastening together two strands of gut or nylon, as fishing lines or leaders.
  • basingstoke — a town in S England, in N Hampshire. Pop: 90 171 (2001)
  • basket fern — a small, compact fern, Nephrolepis pectinata, of tropical America, often grown in hanging baskets.
  • bateau neck — boat neck.
  • beaky-nosed — having a nose that is large, pointed, or hooked
  • beckenbauer — Franz. born 1945, German footballer: team captain when West Germany won the World Cup (1974): manager of West Germany (1984–90), coaching the team to success in the 1990 World Cup
  • becket bend — sheet bend
  • bee's knees — an excellent or ideally suitable person or thing
  • bench check — a test made on an engine or other machine or device in a workshop rather than under field conditions.
  • bikini line — A woman's bikini line is the edges of the area where her pubic hair grows.
  • biokinetics — the study of movements of or within organisms.
  • black money — that part of a nation's income that relates to its black economy
  • blackhander — a member of a Black Hand group
  • blacktongue — canine pellagra.
  • blanca peak — highest peak of the Sangre de Cristo range, S Colo.: 14,317 ft (4,364 m)
  • blank check — If someone is given a blank check, they are given the authority to spend as much money as they need or want.
  • blank shell — a shotgun shell containing powder but no shot.
  • blank slate — tabula rasa.
  • blank verse — Blank verse is poetry that does not rhyme. In English literature it usually consists of lines with five stressed syllables.
  • blanket bog — a very acid peat bog, low in nutrients, extending widely over a flat terrain, found in cold wet climates
  • blanketlike — resembling a blanket
  • blanketweed — a type of filamentous pond algae
  • blind snake — any burrowing snake of the family Typhlopidae and related families of warm and tropical regions, having very small or vestigial eyes
  • block plane — a carpenter's small plane used to cut across the end grain of wood
  • bluejacking — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to gain access to another, esp in order to send anonymous text messages
  • 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-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
  • bottle bank — A bottle bank is a large container into which people can put empty bottles so that the glass can be used again.
  • 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
  • brankursine — a bear's-breech, a type of acanthus plant
  • bread knife — a knife designed or suitable for slicing bread, as one having a wavy or saw-toothed blade.
  • break dance — an acrobatic dance style originating in the 1980s
  • break in on — to intrude on
  • break point — a point which allows the receiving player to break the service of the server
  • break ranks — to fall out of line, esp when under attack
  • breakdancer — a person who does breakdancing
  • breaking-up — separation, or the action of separating, into smaller parts
  • 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.
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