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10-letter words containing k, a, b, i

  • black bile — one of the four bodily humours; melancholy
  • black diet — deprivation of all food and water as a punishment, often leading to death.
  • black disc — a conventional black vinyl gramophone record as opposed to a compact disc
  • black iris — a painting (1926) by Georgia O'Keeffe.
  • black kite — a bird of prey, Milvus migrans, found in much of Eurasia
  • black list — a list of persons under suspicion, disfavor, censure, etc.: His record as an anarchist put him on the government's blacklist.
  • black ring — a disease of grasses, characterized by black rings surrounding the stems and blighted seeds, caused by a fungus, Balansia strangulans.
  • black site — a secret facility used by a country's military as a prison and interrogation centre, whose existence is denied by the government
  • black taxi — a minibus used to transport workers from the townships to the city centres
  • black titi — See under titi2 .
  • blackshirt — (in Europe) a member of a fascist organization, esp a member of the Italian Fascist party before and during World War II
  • blacksmith — A blacksmith is a person whose job is making things by hand out of metal that has been heated to a high temperature.
  • blanketing — a large, rectangular piece of soft fabric, often with bound edges, used especially for warmth as a bed covering.
  • blastodisk — germinal disk
  • bookmaking — Bookmaking is the activity of taking people's money when they bet and paying them money if they win.
  • bootmaking — the activity of making boots and shoes
  • bracketing — a set of brackets
  • bradykinin — a peptide in blood plasma that dilates blood vessels and causes contraction of smooth muscles. Formula: C50H73N15O11
  • brailowsky — Alexander [al-ig-zan-der,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr/ (Show IPA), 1896–1976, Russian pianist.
  • brake disc — a metal disc that revolves with the wheel in a disc brake
  • breadknife — a knife, usually with a serrated blade, used for cutting slices from a loaf of bread
  • breadstick — bread baked in a long thin crisp stick
  • break into — If someone breaks into a building, they get into it by force.
  • break wind — to emit wind from the anus
  • break with — to end a relationship or association with (someone or an organization or social group)
  • breakpoint — an instruction inserted by a debug program causing a return to the debug program
  • brick wall — a wall made out of brick
  • brickearth — a clayey alluvium suitable for the making of bricks: specifically, such a deposit in southern England, yielding a fertile soil
  • bricklayer — A bricklayer is a person whose job is to build walls using bricks.
  • brickmaker — a person who makes bricks
  • bridgetalk — (language)   A visual language.
  • bring back — Something that brings back a memory makes you think about it.
  • buckingham — a town in S central England, in Buckinghamshire; university (1975). Pop: 12 512 (2001)
  • buckraking — the practice of accepting large sums of money for speaking to special interest groups.
  • burushaski — a language of NW Kashmir, not known to be related to any other language.
  • by mistake — accidentally, not on purpose
  • cabin deck — the deck above the weather deck in the bridge house of a ship.
  • cabin hook — a hook and eye for fastening a cabinet door or the like.
  • cable-knit — knitted using the cable stitch
  • calicoback — harlequin bug
  • chainbrake — a device for cutting off the power to a chainsaw if the saw kicks back
  • china bark — cinchona (sense 2)
  • city break — a short holiday spent in a city
  • click bait — Click bait is something on a website that encourages people to click on a link.
  • crab stick — a stick of finely ground white fish, coloured to resemble crabmeat
  • crabsticks — Plural form of crabstick.
  • crackbrain — a person who is insane
  • deck cabin — a cabin on the deck of a boat from which the vessel is steered
  • disc brake — a brake system in which a disc attached to a wheel is slowed by the friction of brake pads being pressed against the disc by a caliper.
  • disembarks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disembark.
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