11-letter words containing k, a, e
- awestricken — filled with awe.
- awkward age — early adolescence.
- awkwardness — lacking skill or dexterity. Synonyms: clumsy, inept; unskillful, unhandy, inexpert. Antonyms: deft, adroit, skillful, dexterous; handy.
- awning deck — a weather deck supported on very light scantlings.
- axe-breaker — an Australian oleaceous tree, Notelaea longifolia, yielding very hard timber
- baby broker — an adoption service, esp on the internet
- baby-walker — a light frame on casters or wheels to help a baby learn to walk
- back boiler — a tank or series of pipes at the back of a fireplace for heating water
- back burner — If you put an issue on the back burner, you leave it in order to deal with it later because you now consider it to have become less urgent or important.
- back garden — a garden at the rear of a house
- back matter — the parts of a book, such as the index and appendices, that follow the main text
- back number — A back number of a magazine or newspaper is the same as a back issue.
- back office — the administrative and support staff of a financial institution or other business
- back street — A back street in a town or city is a small, narrow street with very little traffic.
- back-burner — a condition of low priority or temporary deferment (usually used in the phrase on the back burner): Put other issues on the back burner until after the election.
- back-loaded — to defer to a later date, as wages, benefits, or costs: The union agreed to back-load pay raises.
- back-logged — a reserve or accumulation, as of stock, work, or business: a backlog of business orders.
- back-mutate — to undergo back mutation.
- back-paddle — to propel a boat by paddling backward, as by using a stroke in the direction of stern to bow.
- back-street — taking place in secrecy and often illegally: back-street political maneuvering; back-street drug dealing.
- backbencher — A backbencher is a Member of Parliament who is not a minister and who does not hold an official position in their political party.
- backbenches — The backbenches are the seats in the British House of Commons where backbenchers sit. The Members of Parliament who sit on the backbenches are also referred to as the backbenches.
- backbreaker — a wrestling hold in which a wrestler uses his knee or shoulder as a fulcrum to bend his opponent's body backwards
- backchannel — an unofficial or covert means of conveying information, originally or esp in political or diplomatic circles
- backchecked — Simple past tense and past participle of backcheck.
- backcrossed — Simple past tense and past participle of backcross.
- backcrosses — Plural form of backcross.
- backhanders — Plural form of backhander.
- backlighted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlight.
- backmarkers — Plural form of backmarker.
- backpackers — Plural form of backpacker.
- backpedaled — (US) Simple past tense and past participle of backpedal.
- backscatter — the scattering of particles or radiation, such as sound waves, X-rays, or alpha-particles, by the atoms of the medium through which they pass, in the backward direction
- backseaters — Plural form of backseater.
- backside-to — backend-to.
- backslapped — Simple past tense and past participle of backslap.
- backslapper — a person who backslaps; a hearty jovial person
- backslashed — Simple past tense and past participle of backslash.
- backslashes — Plural form of backslash.
- backslidden — Past participle of backslide.
- backstabbed — Simple past tense and past participle of backstab.
- backstabber — someone who attacks another deceitfully, behind his or her back
- backstopped — Simple past tense and past participle of backstop.
- backstopper — a wall, wire screen, or the like, serving to prevent a ball from going too far beyond the normal playing area.
- backstreets — Plural form of backstreet.
- backstretch — the part of a racetrack farthest from the grandstand and opposite and parallel to the homestretch
- backstroker — a person who swims the backstroke, especially a member of a competitive swimming team who specializes in the backstroke.
- backstrokes — Plural form of backstroke.
- backswimmer — an aquatic bug belonging to the family Notonectidae that swims on its back using its back legs as oars
- backtracked — Simple past tense and past participle of backtrack.