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