10-letter words containing i, k, b
- kohlrabies — Plural form of kohlrabi.
- konigsberg — a former province in NE Germany: an enclave separated from Germany by the Polish Corridor; now divided between Poland and the Russian Federation. 14,283 sq. mi. (36,993 sq. km). Capital: Königsberg.
- koobi fora — an archaeological locality on the northeastern side of Lake Rudolf, in northern Kenya, yielding important early hominid fossils and some of the oldest hominid areas with stone tools, bone food waste, and possible evidence of fire use, dating from one to two million years ago.
- koulibiaca — A Russian dish of salmon, rice etc. cooked in puff pastry.
- lego brick — a toy plastic brick with studs which can be connected to other plastic bricks and used to construct toy buildings, vehicles, etc
- liebknecht — Karl [kahrl] /kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1871–1919, German socialist leader.
- likability — readily or easily liked; pleasing: a likable young man.
- like lambs — If you say that people do something like lambs or like lambs to the slaughter, you mean that they do what someone wants them to do without complaining or fighting.
- limberneck — a fatal infection of botulism affecting birds, especially chickens and ducks, characterized by weakness of the neck muscles and inability to eat.
- line block — a letterpress printing block made by a photoengraving process without the use of a screen
- linebacker — a player on defense who takes a position close behind the linemen.
- lions book — (publication) "Source Code and Commentary on Unix level 6", by John Lions. The two parts of this book contained the entire source listing of the Unix Version 6 kernel, and a commentary on the source discussing the algorithms. These were circulated internally at the University of New South Wales beginning 1976-77, and were, for years after, the *only* detailed kernel documentation available to anyone outside Bell Labs. Because Western Electric wished to maintain trade secret status on the kernel, the Lions book was never formally published and was only supposed to be distributed to affiliates of source licensees (it is still possible to get a Bell Labs reprint of the book by sending a copy of a V6 source licence to the right person at Bellcore, but *real* insiders have the UNSW edition). In spite of this, it soon spread by samizdat to a good many of the early Unix hackers. In 1996 it was reprinted as a "classic":
- māori bunk — a raised sleeping platform
- mini-break — A mini-break is a short holiday.
- mistakable — capable of being or liable to be mistaken or misunderstood.
- mistakably — In a mistakable manner.
- motorbikes — Plural form of motorbike.
- nabokovian — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary style of Vladimir Nabokov: a sly, Nabokovian sense of the absurd.
- nonbanking — (finance) Outside of banking.
- oikophobia — Ecophobia; fear of a home environment.
- pick basic — Data/BASIC
- picketboat — a boat which keeps guard
- piggy bank — a small bank, having the shape of a pig, provided with a slot at the top to receive small coins.
- pik pobedy — Russian name of Pobeda Peak.
- pikeblenny — any of several tropical American clinid fishes of the genus Chaenopsis, as C. ocellata (bluethroat pikeblenny) the male of which is noted for its aggressive behavior in defending its territory.
- portakabin — A Portakabin is a small building that can be moved by truck and that can be used for a short period of time, for example as a temporary office.
- quillbacks — Plural form of quillback.
- rabbitlike — Similar to a rabbit.
- reblocking — a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more flat or approximately flat faces.
- rebukingly — in a severe and disapproving manner
- reichsbank — the former German national bank.
- rickburner — an arsonist who sets fire to haystacks
- riebeckite — an amphibolic mineral, silicate of sodium and iron, occurring usually in feldspathoid rocks.
- right bank — a part of Paris, France, on the N bank of the Seine.
- river bank — land at edge of a river
- rock climb — an instance of rock climbing or the route followed
- rockabilly — a style of popular music combining the features of rock-'n'-roll and hillbilly music.
- rubberlike — resembling rubber
- rubik cube — a puzzle consisting of a cube with colored faces made of 26 smaller colored blocks attached to a spindle in the center, the object being to rotate the blocks until each face of the cube is a single color.
- sb's likes — someone's favourable feelings, desires, preferences, etc
- shikibuton — futon.
- sickle bar — cutter bar (def 1).
- sicklebill — any of various birds having a long, curved bill, as the long-billed curlew or curve-billed thrasher.
- silverback — an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.
- sinkerball — sinker (def 5).
- sling-back — Also called sling. a woman's shoe with an open back and a strap or sling encircling the heel of the foot to keep the shoe secure.
- spoil bank — a bank of excavated refuse or waste earth, as of shale from surface coal mining.
- springbuck — springbok.
- squib kick — a kickoff that is purposely low so it will wobble and bounce along the ground, making it hard to field and return.
- sticky bun — honey bun (def 1).