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10-letter words containing k, a

  • break bulk — of or relating to packaged cargo, usually manufactured goods, that is marked for individual consignees and has to be loaded and unloaded piece by piece at each point of transfer. Compare bulk1 (def 3), containerization.
  • break camp — to pack up equipment and leave a camp
  • break down — If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
  • break even — to attain a level of activity, as in commerce, or a point of operation, as in gambling, at which there is neither profit nor loss
  • break into — If someone breaks into a building, they get into it by force.
  • break step — to cease to march in step
  • break wind — to emit wind from the anus
  • break with — to end a relationship or association with (someone or an organization or social group)
  • break-bulk — of or relating to packaged cargo, usually manufactured goods, that is marked for individual consignees and has to be loaded and unloaded piece by piece at each point of transfer. Compare bulk1 (def 3), containerization.
  • break-even — having income exactly equal to expenditure, thus showing neither profit nor loss.
  • breakables — objects that are delicate and could be easily broken
  • breakdance — to perform break dancing.
  • breakfront — (of a bookcase, bureau, etc) having a slightly projecting central section
  • breakpoint — an instruction inserted by a debug program causing a return to the debug program
  • breakwater — A breakwater is a wooden or stone wall that extends from the shore into the sea and is built in order to protect a harbour or beach from the force of the waves.
  • breastwork — a temporary defensive work, usually breast-high
  • 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.
  • brook farm — an experimental communist community established by writers and scholars in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, from 1841 to 1847
  • brook park — a city in NE Ohio.
  • brookhaven — a town in SW Mississippi.
  • buck naked — Someone who is buck naked is not wearing any clothes at all.
  • buckingham — a town in S central England, in Buckinghamshire; university (1975). Pop: 12 512 (2001)
  • buckpasser — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
  • buckraking — the practice of accepting large sums of money for speaking to special interest groups.
  • buena park — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 78,000
  • bulk cargo — unpackaged cargoes, such as grain or coal
  • bulk large — to be or seem important or prominent
  • bull shark — a requiem shark, Carcharhinus leucas, inhabiting shallow waters from North Carolina to Brazil.
  • bull snake — any burrowing North American nonvenomous colubrid snake of the genus Pituophis, typically having yellow and brown markings
  • bundesbank — the central bank of Germany
  • burckhardt — Jacob Christoph. 1818–97, Swiss art and cultural historian; author of The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)
  • burushaski — a language of NW Kashmir, not known to be related to any other language.
  • bushwalker — a person who hikes through bushland
  • butt-naked — completely naked
  • 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
  • cackhanded — left-handed
  • caipiroska — a cocktail drink containing vodka, lime juice, sugar, and crushed ice, based on the Caipirinha cocktail but with vodka replacing the Brazilian rum-like spirit Cachaça
  • cake eater — a ladies' man.
  • cake flour — finely ground wheat flour.
  • cake stand — a plate on a pedestal used for displaying cakes in a shop or café, or for special cakes such as wedding cakes
  • calicoback — harlequin bug
  • camerawork — The camerawork in a film is the way it has been filmed, especially if the style is interesting or unusual in some way.
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