9-letter words containing k, e, s
- backstage — In a theatre, backstage refers to the areas behind the stage.
- backswept — slanting backwards
- bahookies — Plural form of bahookie.
- bake sale — a sale of homemade, donated baked goods, as by a church or club to raise money.
- bakegoods — baked goods, as bread, cakes, or pies.
- bakehouse — a building or room to bake in; bakery.
- bakeshops — Plural form of bakeshop.
- bakestone — a flat stone placed in or near an oven or fire, for baking cakes on
- baksheesh — money given as a tip, a present, or alms
- balikesir — city in NW Asiatic Turkey: pop. 173,000
- balkanise — to divide (a country, territory, etc.) into small, quarrelsome, ineffectual states.
- balkiness — The state or quality of being balky.
- balklines — Plural form of balkline.
- bankerish — resembling or befitting a banker, especially in being perceived as reserved and conservative in dress and demeanor: a model of bankerish decorum.
- banknotes — Plural form of banknote.
- barklouse — any of numerous insects of the order Psocoptera that live on the bark of trees and other plants.
- basestock — Refined petroleum oil with no additives.
- basinlike — resembling a basin
- basketeer — Someone who makes baskets; a basketmaker.
- basketful — a sufficient quantity to fill a basket; the amount contained in a basket.
- beanstalk — the stem of a bean plant
- bearskins — Plural form of bearskin.
- beastlike — resembling a beast
- beefcakes — Plural form of beefcake.
- beefsteak — Beefsteak is steak.
- berdyansk — a city in S Ukraine, on the Sea of Azov.
- bergamask — person from Bergamo
- berkshire — a historic county of S England: since reorganization in 1974 the River Thames has marked the N boundary while the Berkshire Downs occupy central parts; the county council was replaced by six unitary authorities in 1998. Area: 1259 sq km (486 sq miles)
- berserker — a member of a class of ancient Norse warriors who worked themselves into a frenzy before battle and fought with insane fury and courage
- berserkly — in a berserk or crazy manner
- bespeckle — to mark with speckles
- betsiboka — a river in central Madagascar, flowing NW to the Mozambique Channel. About 200 miles (320 km) long.
- big skate — See under skate2 .
- black sea — an inland sea between SE Europe and Asia: connected to the Aegean Sea by the Bosporus, the Sea of Marmara, and the Dardanelles, and to the Sea of Azov by the Kerch Strait. Area: about 415 000 sq km (160 000 sq miles)
- blackness — Blackness is the state of being very dark.
- bleakness — bare, desolate, and often windswept: a bleak plain.
- bob skate — an ice skate with two parallel blades
- bolshevik — Bolshevik is used to describe the political system and ideas that Lenin and his supporters introduced in Russia after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
- book rest — a support for an open book, usually holding it at a slight angle.
- booklouse — any small insect of the order Psocoptera, esp Trogium pulsatorium (common booklouse), a wingless species that feeds on bookbinding paste, etc
- bookshelf — A bookshelf is a shelf on which you keep books.
- bookstore — A bookstore is a shop where books are sold.
- boskiness — the quality of being bosky
- brakesman — a pithead winch operator
- breakages — things broken, usually accidentally
- breakfast — Breakfast is the first meal of the day. It is usually eaten in the early part of the morning.
- briskness — quick and active; lively: brisk trading; a brisk walk.
- buckley's — no chance at all
- bulkiness — of relatively large and cumbersome bulk or size.
- bullsnake — an American burrowing snake