11-letter words containing e, s, k
- badderlocks — a seaweed, Alaria esculenta, that has long brownish-green fronds and is eaten in parts of N Europe
- bake-wares' — heat-resistant dishes, as of glass or pottery, in which food may be baked; ovenware.
- baked beans — Baked beans are dried beans cooked in tomato sauce in Britain or cooked with salt pork in North America. Baked beans are usually sold in cans.
- bakersfield — city in SC Calif.: pop. 247,000
- barge spike — a square spike with a chisel point.
- barley sack — a burlap bag.
- basingstoke — a town in S England, in N Hampshire. Pop: 90 171 (2001)
- baskerville — a style of type
- basket case — If someone describes a country or organization as a basket case, they mean that its economy or finances are in a seriously bad state.
- basket fern — a small, compact fern, Nephrolepis pectinata, of tropical America, often grown in hanging baskets.
- basket fish — basket star.
- basket hilt — a hilt fitted to a broadsword, with a generally padded basket-shaped guard to protect the hand
- basket star — any echinoderm of the class Ophiuroidea, especially of the genus Gorgonocephalus, having long, slender, branching arms.
- basket-star — any of several echinoderms of the genus Gorgonocephalus, in which long slender arms radiate from a central disc: order Ophiuroidea (brittle-stars)
- basketballs — Plural form of basketball.
- basketmaker — A person who makes baskets.
- basketweave — a weave of two or more yarns together, resembling that of a basket, esp in wool or linen fabric
- beaky-nosed — having a nose that is large, pointed, or hooked
- bee's knees — an excellent or ideally suitable person or thing
- below decks — If someone or something is below decks, they are inside a ship in the part of it that is underneath the deck.
- berkeleyism — any philosophical system or doctrine derived from the views of Bishop Berkeley.
- bewhiskered — having whiskers on the cheeks
- big bickies — a large sum of money
- biokinetics — the study of movements of or within organisms.
- bird strike — a collision of an aircraft with a bird
- bird's beak — beak (def 9).
- black house — a type of thatched house, usually made of turf, formerly found in the highlands and islands of Scotland
- black sheep — If you describe someone as the black sheep of their family or of a group that they are a member of, you mean that they are considered bad or worthless by other people in that family or group.
- blacklister — someone who blacklists
- 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.
- bleak house — a novel (1852) by Charles Dickens.
- blind snake — any burrowing snake of the family Typhlopidae and related families of warm and tropical regions, having very small or vestigial eyes
- block house — Stock Exchange. a firm that specializes in block trades.
- blockbuster — A blockbuster is a film or book that is very popular and successful, usually because it is very exciting.
- bloodsucker — A bloodsucker is any creature that sucks blood from a wound that it has made in an animal or person.
- blue streak — anything regarded as like a streak of lightning in speed, vividness, etc.
- boeremusiek — a variety of light music associated with the culture of the Afrikaners
- 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 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.
- bookselling — the activity of selling books
- bracket saw — a handsaw for cutting curved forms.
- 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.
- brankursine — a bear's-breech, a type of acanthus plant
- breadbasket — a basket for carrying bread or rolls
- breadsticks — bread baked in long thin crisp sticks
- break loose — to free oneself by force