11-letter words containing e, s, k
- break ranks — to fall out of line, esp when under attack
- breakfasted — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
- breast milk — Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies.
- breastworks — a defensive work, usually breast high.
- brecksville — a town in N Ohio.
- breshkovsky — Catherine, 1844–1934, Russian revolutionary of noble birth: called “the little grandmother of the Russian Revolution.”.
- brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
- bristlelike — resembling a bristle
- 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
- brush maker — a manufacturer or crafter of brushes
- brushstroke — Brushstrokes are the marks made on a surface by a painter's brush.
- buck passer — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
- buck-passer — a person who regularly seeks to shift blame or responsibility to someone else
- bucket list — a list of experiences one wants to have before one dies
- bucket seat — A bucket seat is a seat for one person in a car or aeroplane which has rounded sides that partly enclose and support the body.
- bucket shop — an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
- buckskinned — made of buckskin
- 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.
- bush jacket — a casual jacket or shirt having four patch pockets and a belt
- bush shrike — any shrike of the African subfamily Malaconotinae, such as Chlorophoneus nigrifrons (black-fronted bush shrike)
- bush tucker — any wild animal, insect, plant or plant extract, etc traditionally used as food by native Australians
- bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
- butt stroke — a blow struck with the butt of a rifle, as in close combat.
- butt-cheeks — the flesh of the buttocks
- candlestick — A candlestick is a narrow object with a hole at the top which holds a candle.
- canker sore — an ulceration, esp of the lips or lining of the oral cavity
- cankerworms — Plural form of cankerworm.
- 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.
- caseworkers — Plural form of caseworker.
- castle peak — highest peak in the Elk Mountain range, in W central Colorado. 14,265 feet (4352 meters).
- castle walk — a ballroom dance of the pre–World War I era, consisting of a sedate step to each beat.
- chain-smoke — Someone who chain-smokes smokes cigarettes or cigars continuously.
- chalkstones — Plural form of chalkstone.
- chalkstripe — clothing with a pattern of thin white stripes on a dark background
- chargebacks — Plural form of chargeback.
- cheap skate — a person who is stingy and miserly.
- cheapskates — Plural form of cheapskate.
- checkerspot — any of several butterflies of the genus Melitaea, having black wings with yellowish-brown, checkerlike markings.
- checkerwise — Alternative spelling of chequerwise.
- checkpoints — Plural form of checkpoint.
- checksheets — Plural form of checksheet.
- cheek strap — (of a bridle) one of two straps passing over the cheeks of the horse and connecting the crown piece with the bit or noseband.
- cheekpieces — Plural form of cheekpiece.
- cheesecakes — Plural form of cheesecake.
- cheesemaker — a person or thing that makes cheese.
- cheesesteak — a sandwich filled with grilled beef and cheese
- 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)
- chess clock — a timer for chess players, having a dial for each player on which his or her accumulated time is recorded and a device for stopping one timer and starting the other at the end of each move.
- chickenshit — If you say that someone or something is chickenshit, you mean that they are worthless.