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10-letter words containing k, i, c, b

  • brick wall — a wall made out of brick
  • brick-kiln — a kiln in which blocks of clay are baked into bricks
  • brickearth — a clayey alluvium suitable for the making of bricks: specifically, such a deposit in southern England, yielding a fertile soil
  • brickfield — an area of ground where bricks are made
  • bricklayer — A bricklayer is a person whose job is to build walls using bricks.
  • brickmaker — a person who makes bricks
  • brickworks — a factory or plant where bricks are made
  • bring back — Something that brings back a memory makes you think about it.
  • brockville — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
  • broken ice — sea ice that covers from 50 to 80 percent of the surface of water in any particular area.
  • broomstick — A broomstick is an old-fashioned broom which has a bunch of small sticks at the end.
  • buckingham — a town in S central England, in Buckinghamshire; university (1975). Pop: 12 512 (2001)
  • buckraking — the practice of accepting large sums of money for speaking to special interest groups.
  • bucky bits — /buh'kee bits/ 1. Obsolete. The bits produced by the CONTROL and META shift keys on a SAIL keyboard (octal 200 and 400 respectively), resulting in a 9-bit keyboard character set. The MIT AI TV (Knight) keyboards extended this with TOP and separate left and right CONTROL and META keys, resulting in a 12-bit character set; later, LISP Machines added such keys as SUPER, HYPER, and GREEK (see space-cadet keyboard). 2. By extension, bits associated with "extra" shift keys on any keyboard, e.g. the ALT on an IBM PC or command and option keys on a Macintosh. It has long been rumored that "bucky bits" were named after Buckminster Fuller during a period when he was consulting at Stanford. Actually, bucky bits were invented by Niklaus Wirth when *he* was at Stanford in 1964--65; he first suggested the idea of an EDIT key to set the 8th bit of an otherwise 7 bit ASCII character. It seems that, unknown to Wirth, certain Stanford hackers had privately nicknamed him "Bucky" after a prominent portion of his dental anatomy, and this nickname transferred to the bit. Bucky-bit commands were used in a number of editors written at Stanford, including most notably TV-EDIT and NLS. The term spread to MIT and CMU early and is now in general use. Ironically, Wirth himself remained unaware of its derivation for nearly 30 years, until GLS dug up this history in early 1993! See double bucky, quadruple bucky.
  • buff stick — a small stick covered with leather or the like, used in polishing.
  • bumsucking — obsequious behaviour; toadying
  • bunch pink — sweet william.
  • cabin deck — the deck above the weather deck in the bridge house of a ship.
  • cabin hook — a hook and eye for fastening a cabinet door or the like.
  • cable-knit — knitted using the cable stitch
  • calicoback — harlequin bug
  • chainbrake — a device for cutting off the power to a chainsaw if the saw kicks back
  • cherublike — a celestial being. Gen. 3:24; Ezek. 1, 10.
  • china bark — cinchona (sense 2)
  • city break — a short holiday spent in a city
  • click bait — Click bait is something on a website that encourages people to click on a link.
  • cobweblike — Resembling or characteristic of a cobweb.
  • comic book — A comic book is a magazine that contains stories told in pictures.
  • crab stick — a stick of finely ground white fish, coloured to resemble crabmeat
  • crabsticks — Plural form of crabstick.
  • crackbrain — a person who is insane
  • cyberknife — a laser surgery technique which uses a mobile robotic arm to target tumours, etc, more effectively than conventional radiotherapy
  • deblocking — Present participle of deblock.
  • deck cabin — a cabin on the deck of a boat from which the vessel is steered
  • dickeybird — dickey1 (def 4).
  • die brücke — a group of German Expressionist painters (1905–13), including Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. In 1912 they exhibited with der Blaue Reiter
  • disc brake — a brake system in which a disc attached to a wheel is slowed by the friction of brake pads being pressed against the disc by a caliper.
  • duckbilled — Having a bill like that of a duck.
  • fabricking — the action of building or constructing
  • fiddleback — something shaped like a fiddle.
  • fight back — retaliate
  • firebricks — Plural form of firebrick.
  • gold brick — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
  • ice bucket — a cylindrical container for holding ice to use in drinks or to keep a wine bottle cold.
  • icebreaker — Nautical. a ship specially built for breaking navigable passages through ice.
  • in back of — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
  • iron brick — brick having a sprinkling of dark spots caused by the presence of iron salts.
  • jack kilby — (person)   (1924 - 2005-06-20) The electronics engineer who invented the integrated circuit in 1958 at Texas Instruments.
  • jackrabbit — resembling a jack rabbit, as in suddenness or rapidity of movement: The car made a jackrabbit start when the traffic light turned green.
  • job ticket — a slip or card accompanying a job order and used for giving instructions or for recording time spent on the work.
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