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11-letter words containing k, a, t

  • backlisting — Present participle of backlist.
  • 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
  • backscratch — a favour done for someone in return for another
  • backseaters — Plural form of backseater.
  • backside-to — backend-to.
  • 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.
  • backtalking — Present participle of backtalk.
  • backtracked — Simple past tense and past participle of backtrack.
  • backtracker — One who, or that which, backtracks.
  • baking tray — A baking tray is the same as a baking sheet.
  • bankability — acceptable for processing by a bank: bankable checks and money orders.
  • bankrupting — Present participle of bankrupt.
  • bantam work — Coromandel work.
  • bark beetle — any small beetle of the family Scolytidae, which bore tunnels in the bark and wood of trees, causing great damage. They are closely related to the weevils
  • barrel knot — a knot for fastening together two strands of gut or nylon, as fishing lines or leaders.
  • basingstoke — a town in S England, in N Hampshire. Pop: 90 171 (2001)
  • basket case — If someone describes a country or organization as a basket case, they mean that its economy or finances are in a seriously bad state.
  • basket fern — a small, compact fern, Nephrolepis pectinata, of tropical America, often grown in hanging baskets.
  • basket fish — basket star.
  • basket hilt — a hilt fitted to a broadsword, with a generally padded basket-shaped guard to protect the hand
  • basket star — any echinoderm of the class Ophiuroidea, especially of the genus Gorgonocephalus, having long, slender, branching arms.
  • basket-star — any of several echinoderms of the genus Gorgonocephalus, in which long slender arms radiate from a central disc: order Ophiuroidea (brittle-stars)
  • basketballs — Plural form of basketball.
  • basketmaker — A person who makes baskets.
  • basketweave — a weave of two or more yarns together, resembling that of a basket, esp in wool or linen fabric
  • bateau neck — boat neck.
  • bear market — A bear market is a situation on the stock market when people are selling a lot of shares because they expect that the shares will decrease in value and that they will be able to make a profit by buying them again after a short time. Compare bull market.
  • beauty mark — A beauty mark is a small, dark spot on the skin that is supposed to add to a woman's beauty.
  • bethel park — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
  • bitter lake — a salt lake containing in solution a high concentration of sulfates, carbonates, and chlorides.
  • black death — a deadly disease, probably bubonic plague, which devastated Europe and Asia in the 14th cent.
  • black frost — a frost without snow or rime that is severe enough to blacken vegetation
  • black light — the invisible electromagnetic radiation in the ultraviolet and infrared regions of the spectrum
  • black metal — a type of heavy-metal music characterized by extremely nihilistic and satanic lyrics, a repetitive drum beat rapidly alternating betweeen the snare and bass drum (a blast beat), and the ghoulish make-up worn by performers (corpse paint)
  • black shirt — a member of any fascist organization (specif., the former Italian Fascist party) with a black-shirted uniform
  • black stump — a long way off
  • black volta — a river in W Africa, rising in SW Burkina Faso and flowing northeast, then south into Lake Volta: forms part of the border of Ghana with Burkina-Faso and with Côte d'Ivoire. Length: about 800 km (500 miles)
  • black vomit — vomit containing blood, often a manifestation of disease, such as yellow fever
  • black watch — a regiment of Scottish infantry in the British army (so called from the dark colors in their tartan).
  • black water — household waste water that cannot be reused without purification
  • black witch — any of several large noctuid moths of the genus Erebus, especially the blackish E. odora (black witch) of Central and North America.
  • blackbeetle — oriental cockroach.
  • blacklister — someone who blacklists
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