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11-letter words containing e, n, k

  • 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.
  • brown snake — any of various common venomous snakes of the genus Pseudonaja
  • bucket down — If the rain buckets down, or if it buckets down with rain, it rains very heavily.
  • buckle down — If you buckle down to something, you start working seriously at it.
  • buckskinned — made of buckskin
  • bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
  • bull-necked — having a short thick neck
  • bundelkhand — a region of central India: formerly native states, now mainly part of Madhya Pradesh
  • bunker hill — the first battle of the American Revolution, actually fought on Breed's Hill, next to Bunker Hill, near Boston, on June 17, 1775. Though defeated, the colonists proved that they could stand against British regular soldiers
  • burkburnett — a town in N Texas.
  • 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.
  • by the neck — (of a bottle of beer) served unpoured
  • cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
  • cack-handed — If you describe someone as cack-handed, you mean that they handle things in an awkward or clumsy way.
  • cakewalking — Present participle of cakewalk.
  • candlemaker — Someone who makes candles; candler.
  • candlestick — A candlestick is a narrow object with a hole at the top which holds a candle.
  • caneworking — A glassblowing technique that uses rods of coloured glass to add intricate patterns and stripes to blown glass objects.
  • canker sore — an ulceration, esp of the lips or lining of the oral cavity
  • cankerworms — Plural form of cankerworm.
  • care-taking — a person who is in charge of the maintenance of a building, estate, etc.; superintendent.
  • carsickness — a feeling of nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, as a result of the motion of the car in which one is traveling.
  • cartoonlike — cartoonish
  • center back — the player in the middle of the back line.
  • chain-smoke — Someone who chain-smokes smokes cigarettes or cigars continuously.
  • chalkstones — Plural form of chalkstone.
  • changemaker — a person or thing that changes bills or coins for ones of smaller denominations.
  • check up on — to examine the record, character, etc. of; investigate
  • checkmating — Present participle of checkmate.
  • checkpoints — Plural form of checkpoint.
  • chelyabinsk — an industrial city in SW Russia; in 2013 a large meteor exploded in an airburst over the city's surrounding district. Pop: 1 067 000 (2005 est)
  • chicken out — If someone chickens out of something they were intending to do, they decide not to do it because they are afraid.
  • chicken pox — a disease, commonly of children, caused by the varicella zoster virus and characterized by mild headache and fever, malaise, and eruption of blisters on the skin and mucous membranes.
  • chicken run — the departure of white residents from South Africa
  • chicken-fry — to dip (meat, vegetables, etc.) in batter and fry, usually in deep fat: chicken-fried steak.
  • chickenfeed — If you think that an amount of money is so small it is hardly worth having or considering, you can say that it is chickenfeed.
  • chickenhawk — Also called hen hawk. (not used scientifically) any of various hawks said to prey on poultry.
  • chickenhead — (slang, hip-hop, derogatory) A woman who readily performs fellatio; by extension, an unintelligent and promiscuous woman.
  • chickenshit — If you say that someone or something is chickenshit, you mean that they are worthless.
  • chimneylike — resembling a chimney
  • chinese ink — a black pigment consisting of lampblack mixed with glue or size.
  • choke chain — a collar and lead for a dog so designed that if the dog drags on the lead the collar tightens round its neck
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