10-letter words containing k, c
- blackamoor — a Black African or other person with dark skin
- blackbeard — nickname of (Edward) Teach
- blackberry — A blackberry is a small, soft black or dark purple fruit.
- blackboard — A blackboard is a dark-coloured board that you can write on with chalk. Blackboards are often used by teachers in the classroom.
- blackfella — an Aborigine or Black person
- blackguard — an unprincipled contemptible person; scoundrel
- blackheart — an abnormal darkening of the woody stems of some plants, thought to be caused by extreme cold
- blackheath — a residential district in SE London, mainly in the boroughs of Lewisham and Greenwich: a large heath formerly notorious for highwaymen
- blacklands — an area of fertile soil in Texas
- blackpatch — a disease of red and white clover, caused by an unidentified fungus and characterized by brown or blackish lesions on the plant.
- blackplate — cold-rolled sheet steel before pickling or cleaning.
- blacksburg — a town in SW Virginia.
- blackshirt — (in Europe) a member of a fascist organization, esp a member of the Italian Fascist party before and during World War II
- blacksmith — A blacksmith is a person whose job is making things by hand out of metal that has been heated to a high temperature.
- blacksnake — any of several Old World black venomous elapid snakes, esp Pseudechis porphyriacus (Australian blacksnake)
- blackstone — Sir William. 1723–80, English jurist noted particularly for his Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–69), which had a profound influence on jurisprudence in the US
- blackstrap — a kind of port wine
- blackthorn — a thorny Eurasian rosaceous shrub, Prunus spinosa, with black twigs, white flowers, and small sour plumlike fruits
- blackwater — a stream stained dark with peat
- block coal — bituminous coal that breaks into large lumps or cubical blocks.
- block lava — volcanic lava occurring as rough-surfaced jagged blocks
- block line — a rope or cable used in a block and tackle
- block mast — a short mast from the head of which a lateen yard is suspended.
- block vote — A block vote is a large number of votes that are all cast in the same way by one person on behalf of a group of people.
- blockboard — a type of plywood in which soft wood strips are bonded together and sandwiched between two layers of veneer
- blockflote — a recorder.
- blockhouse — (formerly) a wooden fortification with ports or loopholes for defensive fire, observation, etc
- bloodstock — Horses that are bred for racing are referred to as bloodstock.
- blue dicks — a plant, Dichelostemma pulchellum, of the amaryllis family, common on the western coast of the U.S., having headlike clusters of blue flowers.
- blue-black — Something that is blue-black is bluish black in colour.
- bluejacket — a sailor in the Navy
- blues-rock — a blend of rock-'n'-roll and blues.
- bobbysocks — ankle-length socks worn by teenage girls, esp in the US in the 1940s
- body check — the fair block of an opponent who has the puck by bumping with the body, shoulder to hip, from the front or side
- body clock — Your body clock is the internal biological mechanism which causes your body to automatically behave in particular ways at particular times of the day.
- body track — the tracks of a railroad yard used for switching or sorting cars.
- bollocking — a severe telling-off; dressing-down
- bomb ketch — Nautical. a ketch-rigged vessel of the 17th and 18th centuries, carrying heavy mortars for firing bombs.
- bone black — a fine charcoal made by burning animal bones in closed containers: used as a pigment, in refining sugar, etc.
- bonus pack — anything sold with a product and marketed as a useful and free extra
- book cover — the cover of a book
- book match — a match in or from a matchbook.
- book price — the value of a car as defined by the manufacturers or other accredited organization
- boondocker — combat boot.
- boot block — (operating system) A program on a hard disk, floppy disk or other media, which is loaded when the computer is turned on or rebooted and which controls the next phase of loading the actual operating system. The loading and execution of the boot block is usually controlled by firmware in ROM or PROM. It may be at some fixed location possibly or may be pointed to by the master boot record.
- bootlicker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- boss cocky — a boss or person in power
- bottleneck — A bottleneck is a place where a road becomes narrow or where it meets another road so that the traffic slows down or stops, often causing traffic jams.
- bounceback — the act or an instance of bouncing back, recovering, or recuperating: Fall sales have experienced a tremendous bounceback.
- brace jack — a triangular piece of wood used for propping up scenery from behind.