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11-letter words containing k, b

  • 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 whale — a black, dolphinlike whale, Globicephala melaena, of the North Atlantic.
  • black widow — an American spider, Latrodectus mactans, the female of which is black with red markings, highly venomous, and commonly eats its mate
  • black witch — any of several large noctuid moths of the genus Erebus, especially the blackish E. odora (black witch) of Central and North America.
  • blackballed — to vote against (a candidate, applicant, etc.).
  • blackbeetle — oriental cockroach.
  • blackbirder — a person or vessel involved in the capture and transportation of slaves
  • blackfellow — Australian Aborigine
  • blackhander — a member of a Black Hand group
  • blacklister — someone who blacklists
  • blacktongue — canine pellagra.
  • bladderlike — resembling a bladder
  • blanca peak — highest peak of the Sangre de Cristo range, S Colo.: 14,317 ft (4,364 m)
  • blank check — If someone is given a blank check, they are given the authority to spend as much money as they need or want.
  • blank shell — a shotgun shell containing powder but no shot.
  • blank slate — tabula rasa.
  • blank verse — Blank verse is poetry that does not rhyme. In English literature it usually consists of lines with five stressed syllables.
  • blanket bog — a very acid peat bog, low in nutrients, extending widely over a flat terrain, found in cold wet climates
  • blanketlike — resembling a blanket
  • blanketweed — a type of filamentous pond algae
  • bleak house — a novel (1852) by Charles Dickens.
  • blind snake — any burrowing snake of the family Typhlopidae and related families of warm and tropical regions, having very small or vestigial eyes
  • block chord — a two-handed chord played usually in the middle range of the piano with the left hand duplicating or complementing the right-hand notes.
  • block front — Furniture. a front of a desk, chest of drawers, etc., of the third quarter of the 18th century, having three vertical divisions of equal width, a sunken one between raised ones, all divided by flat areas to which they are connected by curves, often with a shell motif forming a rounded termination to each section.
  • block grant — (in Britain) an annual grant made by the government to a local authority to help to pay for the public services it provides, such as health, education, and housing
  • block house — Stock Exchange. a firm that specializes in block trades.
  • block party — A block party is an outdoor party for all the residents of a block or neighborhood.
  • block plane — a carpenter's small plane used to cut across the end grain of wood
  • block print — a design printed by means of one or more blocks of wood or metal.
  • block trade — the purchase and sale of blocks of securities through brokers, sometimes not members of an exchange, who negotiate between buyers and sellers.
  • blockbuster — A blockbuster is a film or book that is very popular and successful, usually because it is very exciting.
  • blogjacking — the use of another person’s blog without his or her consent, esp for malicious or satirical purposes
  • blood fluke — any parasitic flatworm, such as a schistosome, that lives in the blood vessels of man and other vertebrates: class Digenea
  • blood-caked — caked with blood
  • bloodsucker — A bloodsucker is any creature that sucks blood from a wound that it has made in an animal or person.
  • blow a kiss — to kiss one's hand, then blow across it as if to carry the kiss through the air to another person
  • blue streak — anything regarded as like a streak of lightning in speed, vividness, etc.
  • bluejacking — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to gain access to another, esp in order to send anonymous text messages
  • board check — a body check in which the opponent is thrown against the wooden wall enclosing the rink. Compare check1 (def 37).
  • bobby socks — Bobby socks or bobbysox are short socks worn by girls or women.
  • body packer — a smuggler of illegal drugs, especially one who swallows bags containing them.
  • body-packer — a person who smuggles illicit drugs in balloons, condoms, or similar plastic bags which have either been swallowed or inserted in the rectum or vagina
  • boeremusiek — a variety of light music associated with the culture of the Afrikaners
  • boilermaker — a person who works with metal in heavy industry; plater or welder
  • bok globule — a dense spherical cloud of gas and dust in interstellar space that absorbs light from stars.
  • bokhara rug — a Turkoman rug having a tan or red background and decorated with varied octagon patterns.
  • bokmakierie — a large yellow shrike, Telephorus zeylonus, of southern Africa, known for its melodious song
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