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11-letter words containing k, e

  • breakfasted — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
  • 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.
  • breastworks — a defensive work, usually breast high.
  • brecksville — a town in N Ohio.
  • breechblock — a metal block in breech-loading firearms that is withdrawn to insert the cartridge and replaced to close the breech before firing
  • breshkovsky — Catherine, 1844–1934, Russian revolutionary of noble birth: called “the little grandmother of the Russian Revolution.”.
  • brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
  • bridge deck — a deck on top of a bridge house; flying bridge.
  • bristlelike — resembling a bristle
  • 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.
  • brotherlike — like a brother
  • brown snake — any of various common venomous snakes of the genus Pseudonaja
  • brush maker — a manufacturer or crafter of brushes
  • brushstroke — Brushstrokes are the marks made on a surface by a painter's brush.
  • buck passer — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
  • buck-passer — a person who regularly seeks to shift blame or responsibility to someone else
  • bucket down — If the rain buckets down, or if it buckets down with rain, it rains very heavily.
  • bucket list — a list of experiences one wants to have before one dies
  • bucket seat — A bucket seat is a seat for one person in a car or aeroplane which has rounded sides that partly enclose and support the body.
  • bucket shop — an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
  • bucket-load — a large quantity
  • buckle down — If you buckle down to something, you start working seriously at it.
  • buckskinned — made of buckskin
  • bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
  • bull market — A bull market is a situation on the stock market when people are buying a lot of shares because they expect that the shares will increase in value and that they will be able to make a profit by selling them again after a short time. Compare bear market.
  • bull-necked — having a short thick neck
  • bullwhacker — (especially in the early 19th century) the driver of a team of oxen.
  • bumper jack — a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper.
  • bundelkhand — a region of central India: formerly native states, now mainly part of Madhya Pradesh
  • 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.
  • bush jacket — a casual jacket or shirt having four patch pockets and a belt
  • bush shrike — any shrike of the African subfamily Malaconotinae, such as Chlorophoneus nigrifrons (black-fronted bush shrike)
  • bush tucker — any wild animal, insect, plant or plant extract, etc traditionally used as food by native Australians
  • bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
  • butt stroke — a blow struck with the butt of a rifle, as in close combat.
  • butt-cheeks — the flesh of the buttocks
  • by the book — according to the rules; in the prescribed or usual way
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