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11-letter words containing k, e, i, r

  • break it up — stop fighting
  • break point — a point which allows the receiving player to break the service of the server
  • breaking-up — separation, or the action of separating, into smaller parts
  • breast milk — Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies.
  • brecksville — a town in N Ohio.
  • brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
  • bridge deck — a deck on top of a bridge house; flying bridge.
  • bristlelike — resembling a bristle
  • broken hill — a town in SE Australia, in W New South Wales: mining centre for lead, silver, and zinc. Pop: 19 834 (2001)
  • broken line — a discontinuous line or series of line segments, as a series of dashes, or a figure made up of line segments meeting at oblique angles.
  • broken vein — a ruptured blood vessel
  • broken wind — heaves
  • brotherlike — like a brother
  • bunker hill — the first battle of the American Revolution, actually fought on Breed's Hill, next to Bunker Hill, near Boston, on June 17, 1775. Though defeated, the colonists proved that they could stand against British regular soldiers
  • bush shrike — any shrike of the African subfamily Malaconotinae, such as Chlorophoneus nigrifrons (black-fronted bush shrike)
  • cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
  • caneworking — A glassblowing technique that uses rods of coloured glass to add intricate patterns and stripes to blown glass objects.
  • care-taking — a person who is in charge of the maintenance of a building, estate, etc.; superintendent.
  • carsickness — a feeling of nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, as a result of the motion of the car in which one is traveling.
  • cartoonlike — cartoonish
  • chalkstripe — clothing with a pattern of thin white stripes on a dark background
  • checkerwise — Alternative spelling of chequerwise.
  • checkwriter — a machine for printing amounts on checks, as by perforations, so as to prevent alterations.
  • cherry-pick — If someone cherry-picks people or things, they choose the best ones from a group of them, often in a way that other people consider unfair.
  • chicken run — the departure of white residents from South Africa
  • chicken-fry — to dip (meat, vegetables, etc.) in batter and fry, usually in deep fat: chicken-fried steak.
  • cinderblock — Made of cinder blocks.
  • circle jerk — mutual masturbation among three or more persons.
  • clarksville — city in N Tenn., on the Cumberland River: pop. 103,000
  • clerk vicar — a lay officer in a cathedral who performs those parts of a service not reserved to the priests.
  • clerkliness — (obsolete) scholarship.
  • clever dick — a person considered to have an unwarrantably high opinion of his or her own ability or knowledge
  • clickstream — a record of the path taken by users through a website, enabling designers to access the use being made of their website
  • cliff brake — any of several common ferns of the genus Pellaea, usually growing in pockets of thin soil on rocks.
  • clock-timer — timer (def 4).
  • coal strike — a cessation of work by coal miners as a protest against working conditions or low pay
  • cockatrices — Plural form of cockatrice.
  • cockfighter — One who engages in a cockfight.
  • computernik — a person who is very interested in, and knowledgeable about, computers
  • cookie bear — cookie monster
  • cork-tipped — (of a cigarette) having a filter of cork or some material resembling cork
  • corn picker — a machine for picking the ears of corn from standing stalks and removing the husks.
  • corn-picker — a machine for removing ears of maize from the standing stalks, often also equipped to separate the corn from the husk and shell
  • corner kick — a free kick taken from the corner of the field after the defending side has played the ball behind their own goal line
  • countersink — to enlarge the upper part of (a hole) in timber, metal, etc, so that the head of a bolt or screw can be sunk below the surface
  • craft knife — a knife used for paper crafts, etc, that has a sharp replaceable blade
  • crank-sided — lopsided; askew.
  • credit risk — a person or institution judged to be unlikely to be able to repay a loan
  • cricket bat — a specially shaped, carved wooden bat used to play cricket
  • crinkle-cut — (of chips or crisps) having a striated or furrowed surface
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