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10-letter words containing k, i, c

  • black diet — deprivation of all food and water as a punishment, often leading to death.
  • black disc — a conventional black vinyl gramophone record as opposed to a compact disc
  • black iris — a painting (1926) by Georgia O'Keeffe.
  • black kite — a bird of prey, Milvus migrans, found in much of Eurasia
  • black list — a list of persons under suspicion, disfavor, censure, etc.: His record as an anarchist put him on the government's blacklist.
  • black ring — a disease of grasses, characterized by black rings surrounding the stems and blighted seeds, caused by a fungus, Balansia strangulans.
  • black site — a secret facility used by a country's military as a prison and interrogation centre, whose existence is denied by the government
  • black taxi — a minibus used to transport workers from the townships to the city centres
  • black titi — See under titi2 .
  • blackshirt — (in Europe) a member of a fascist organization, esp a member of the Italian Fascist party before and during World War II
  • blacksmith — A blacksmith is a person whose job is making things by hand out of metal that has been heated to a high temperature.
  • block line — a rope or cable used in a block and tackle
  • blue dicks — a plant, Dichelostemma pulchellum, of the amaryllis family, common on the western coast of the U.S., having headlike clusters of blue flowers.
  • bollocking — a severe telling-off; dressing-down
  • book price — the value of a car as defined by the manufacturers or other accredited organization
  • bootlicker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
  • bracketing — a set of brackets
  • brake disc — a metal disc that revolves with the wheel in a disc brake
  • breadstick — bread baked in a long thin crisp stick
  • 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
  • caipiroska — a cocktail drink containing vodka, lime juice, sugar, and crushed ice, based on the Caipirinha cocktail but with vodka replacing the Brazilian rum-like spirit Cachaça
  • calicoback — harlequin bug
  • candlewick — unbleached cotton or muslin into which loops of yarn are hooked and then cut to give a tufted pattern. It is used for bedspreads, dressing gowns, etc
  • canvaslike — resembling canvas
  • card trick — an illusory feat performed with playing cards
  • caretaking — a person who is in charge of the maintenance of a building, estate, etc.; superintendent.
  • carjacking — A carjacking is an attack on a person who is driving their own car during which things may be stolen or they may be harmed physically.
  • case knife — sheath knife
  • castlelike — a fortified, usually walled residence, as of a prince or noble in feudal times.
  • catskinner — an operator of a vehicle or machine with caterpillar treads.
  • catwhisker — a sharply pointed, flexible wire used to make contact with a specific point on a semiconductor or a crystal detector
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