9-letter words containing k, a, t
- bartokian — characteristic of the music of Béla Bartók: driving, percussive, Bartokian rhythm.
- basestock — Refined petroleum oil with no additives.
- basketeer — Someone who makes baskets; a basketmaker.
- basketful — a sufficient quantity to fill a basket; the amount contained in a basket.
- batu khan — d. 1255, Mongol conqueror: leader of the Golden Horde (grandson of Genghis Khan).
- beanstalk — the stem of a bean plant
- beastlike — resembling a beast
- beat back — to force to retreat; drive back
- bedjacket — A short jacket worn when sitting up in bed, usually by women.
- beefsteak — Beefsteak is steak.
- bethankit — (used as part of a grace spoken before a meal) God be thanked!
- betsiboka — a river in central Madagascar, flowing NW to the Mozambique Channel. About 200 miles (320 km) long.
- bhaktapur — a city in E central Nepal, near Kathmandu.
- bialystok — a city in E Poland.
- białystok — a city in E Poland: belonged to Prussia (1795–1807) and to Russia (1807–1919). Pop: 315 000 (2005 est)
- big skate — See under skate2 .
- bike path — A bike path is a special path on which people can travel by bicycle separately from motor vehicles.
- birthmark — A birthmark is a mark on someone's skin that has been there since they were born.
- bite back — If you bite back a feeling or something that you were going to say, you stop yourself from expressing it.
- black art — black magic
- black hat — a computer hacker who carries out illegal malicious hacking work
- black out — If you black out, you lose consciousness for a short time.
- black pit — a disease of lemons, characterized by dark brown, sunken spots on the skin of the fruit, caused by a bacterium, Xanthomonas syringae.
- black rat — a common rat, Rattus rattus: a household pest that has spread from its native Asia to all countries
- black rot — any of various plant diseases of fruits and vegetables, producing blackening, rotting, and shrivelling and caused by bacteria (including Xanthomonas campestris) and fungi (such as Physalospora malorum)
- black tar — black heroin.
- black tea — tea withered and fermented before being dried by heating
- black tie — A black tie event is a formal social event such as a party at which people wear formal clothes called evening dress.
- black-tie — requiring that guests wear semiformal attire, especially that men wear black bow ties with tuxedos or dinner jackets: a black-tie dance.
- blackbutt — any of various Australian eucalyptus trees having rough fibrous bark and hard wood used as timber
- blackfoot — a member of a group of Native American peoples formerly living in the northwestern Plains
- blacklist — If someone is on a blacklist, they are seen by a government or other organization as being one of a number of people who cannot be trusted or who have done something wrong.
- blacktail — a variety of mule deer having a black tail
- blacktown — a city in New South Wales, SE Australia, near Sydney.
- blank out — If you blank out a particular feeling or thought, you do not allow yourself to experience that feeling or to have that thought.
- blavatsky — Elena Petrovna (jɪˈljɛnə pɪˈtrɔvnə), called Madame Blavatsky. 1831–91, Russian theosophist; author of Isis Unveiled (1877)
- boat deck — the deck of a ship on which the lifeboats are kept
- boat hook — a hook mounted at the end of a pole, used to pull or push boats toward or away from a landing, to pick up a mooring, etc.
- boat neck — a high slitlike neckline of a garment that extends onto the shoulders
- bob skate — an ice skate with two parallel blades
- bookcraft — literary skill; authorship.
- bookplate — A bookplate is a piece of decorated paper which is stuck in the front of a book and on which the owner's name is printed or written.
- bookstack — Usually, bookstacks. stack (def 4).
- bookstall — A bookstall is a long table from which books and magazines are sold, for example at a conference or in a street market.
- bookstand — a cradle for holding an open book so that it may be read comfortably
- bootblack — a person whose work is shining shoes and boots
- bootmaker — a person who makes boots and shoes for a living
- bop stack — A BOP stack is one of two or more units which control well pressure, and contain the wellhead and blowout preventers.
- bracketed — a support, as of metal or wood, projecting from a wall or the like to hold or bear the weight of a shelf, part of a cornice, etc.
- brat pack — A brat pack is a group of young people, especially actors or writers, who are popular or successful at the moment.