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

  • breaking-up — separation, or the action of separating, into smaller parts
  • brocken bow — anticorona.
  • broken coal — anthracite in pieces ranging from 2 1/2 to 4 inches (6.5 to 11 cm) in extreme dimension; the largest commercial size, larger than egg coal.
  • broken hill — a town in SE Australia, in W New South Wales: mining centre for lead, silver, and zinc. Pop: 19 834 (2001)
  • broken home — a family in which one parent is absent, usually due to divorce or desertion: children from broken homes.
  • 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 play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
  • broken reed — a weak, unreliable, or ineffectual person
  • broken vein — a ruptured blood vessel
  • broken wind — heaves
  • broken-down — A broken-down vehicle or machine no longer works because it has something wrong with it.
  • brooklynese — the speech, especially the pronunciation, thought to be characteristic of a person coming from New York City, especially Brooklyn.
  • brown snake — any of various common venomous snakes of the genus Pseudonaja
  • 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
  • burkburnett — a town in N Texas.
  • bus network — (networking)   A network topology in which all nodes are connected to a single wire or set of wires (the bus). Bus networks typically use CSMA/CD techniques to determine which node should transmit data at any given time. Some networks are implemented as a bus, e.g. Ethernet - a one-bit bus operating at 10, 100, 1000 or 10,000 megabits per second. Originally Ethernet was a physical layer bus consisting of a wire (with terminators at each end) to which each node was attached. Switched Ethernet, while no longer physically a bus still acts as one at the logical layers.
  • cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
  • candlemaker — Someone who makes candles; candler.
  • caneworking — A glassblowing technique that uses rods of coloured glass to add intricate patterns and stripes to blown glass objects.
  • canker sore — an ulceration, esp of the lips or lining of the oral cavity
  • cankerworms — Plural form of cankerworm.
  • 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
  • center back — the player in the middle of the back line.
  • changemaker — a person or thing that changes bills or coins for ones of smaller denominations.
  • 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.
  • clerkliness — (obsolete) scholarship.
  • close ranks — to maintain discipline or solidarity, esp in anticipation of attack
  • computernik — a person who is very interested in, and knowledgeable about, computers
  • control key — a key on the keyboard of a computer that is used in conjunction with the standard keys in order to initiate a specific function, such as editing
  • coral snake — any venomous elapid snake of the genus Micrurus and related genera, of tropical and subtropical America, marked with red, black, yellow, and white transverse bands
  • corn cockle — a tall annual weed (Agrostemma githago) of the pink family, with flat, pinkish flowers and poisonous seeds, often found in grainfields
  • 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
  • corncockles — Plural form of corncockle.
  • 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
  • corner rack — A corner rack is a shelving unit designed to fit into corners to maximize space.
  • cornerbacks — Plural form of cornerback.
  • cornhuskers — Plural form of cornhusker.
  • countermark — a mark on an object that is additional to a mark already on that object, and that serves a purpose such as enhancing security, or noting a change in the value of that object, etc
  • countersank — Simple past form of countersink.
  • 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
  • countersunk — driven or sunk into an enlarged hole
  • counterwork — work done in opposition to other work
  • cow-spanker — a dairy farmer
  • craft knife — a knife used for paper crafts, etc, that has a sharp replaceable blade
  • crank-sided — lopsided; askew.
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