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11-letter words containing i, k

  • bootlicking — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
  • bowie knife — a stout hunting knife with a short hilt and a guard for the hand
  • box-ticking — the process of satisfying bureaucratic administrative requirements rather than assessing the actual merit of something
  • brake fluid — an oily liquid used to transmit pressure in a hydraulic brake or clutch system
  • brake light — a red light attached to the rear of a motor vehicle that lights up when the brakes are applied, serving as a warning to following drivers
  • 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.
  • breadsticks — bread baked in long thin crisp sticks
  • break in on — to intrude on
  • break it up — stop fighting
  • break point — a point which allows the receiving player to break the service of the server
  • breaking-up — separation, or the action of separating, into smaller parts
  • breast milk — Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies.
  • brecksville — a town in N Ohio.
  • brick-built — made of bricks
  • bricklaying — the technique or practice of laying bricks
  • brickmaking — the activity of making bricks
  • brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
  • bridge deck — a deck on top of a bridge house; flying bridge.
  • bristlelike — resembling a bristle
  • broken hill — a town in SE Australia, in W New South Wales: mining centre for lead, silver, and zinc. Pop: 19 834 (2001)
  • 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 vein — a ruptured blood vessel
  • broken wind — heaves
  • brotherlike — like a brother
  • buck rabbit — Welsh rabbit with either an egg or a piece of toast on top
  • buck's fizz — Buck's Fizz is a drink made by mixing champagne or another fizzy white wine with orange juice.
  • bucket list — a list of experiences one wants to have before one dies
  • buckjumping — a competitive event for buckjumpers in a rodeo
  • buckskinned — made of buckskin
  • bulk buying — the purchase at one time, and often at a reduced price, of a large quantity of a particular commodity
  • bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
  • 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
  • bush shrike — any shrike of the African subfamily Malaconotinae, such as Chlorophoneus nigrifrons (black-fronted bush shrike)
  • bushwalking — an expedition on foot in the bush
  • cabin trunk — a large trunk specially designed to be used on journeys, and often having large handles at either end to make it easy to move
  • cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
  • cakewalking — Present participle of cakewalk.
  • cakravartin — (in Indian philosophy, politics, etc.) an ideal, universal, enlightened ruler, under whom the world exists in justice and peace.
  • 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.
  • carbon sink — areas of vegetation, esp forests, and the phytoplankton-rich seas that absorb the carbon dioxide produced by the burning of fossil fuels
  • care-taking — a person who is in charge of the maintenance of a building, estate, etc.; superintendent.
  • carjackings — Plural form of carjacking.
  • 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
  • cassia bark — the cinnamon-like bark of this tree, used as a spice
  • cattle tick — a dark brown tick, Boophilus annulatus, that infests cattle and is a vector for parasitic diseases of cattle, as babesiosis.
  • chain-smoke — Someone who chain-smokes smokes cigarettes or cigars continuously.
  • chalkstripe — clothing with a pattern of thin white stripes on a dark background
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