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11-letter words containing k, i, n

  • ban ki-moon — born 1944, South Korean international civil servant; secretary-general of the United Nations from 2007
  • banana skin — The thick yellow or green covering of a banana is called a banana skin.
  • bandkeramik — the pottery of the early Neolithic Danubian culture of Europe, having characteristic parallel spiral lines over the body and neck of the gourdlike vessels and dated 5000–4000 b.c.
  • bankability — acceptable for processing by a bank: bankable checks and money orders.
  • banking 2.0 — a name given to several radical departures from the traditional model of banking, esp the use of communications technology to facilitate lending between individuals
  • banking pin — either of two pins for damping or halting the oscillation, in either direction, of a balance or lever.
  • bankrolling — Present participle of bankroll.
  • bankrupting — Present participle of bankrupt.
  • barebacking — sexual intercourse performed without the use of a condom
  • barking mad — If you say that someone is barking mad, you mean that they are insane or are acting very strangely.
  • baryshnikov — Mikhail. born 1948, Soviet-born ballet dancer, who defected (1974) to the West while on tour with the Kirov Ballet: director (1980–90) of the American Ballet Theatre
  • basingstoke — a town in S England, in N Hampshire. Pop: 90 171 (2001)
  • bikini line — A woman's bikini line is the edges of the area where her pubic hair grows.
  • bikini scar — a horizontal scar on the lower abdomen in the area where a bikini would be worn, usually resulting from a Caesarean section.
  • biokinetics — the study of movements of or within organisms.
  • bismarckian — of, relating to, or resembling Otto von Bismarck, especially in respect to his aggressiveness in politics and diplomacy.
  • bivouacking — a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
  • black cumin — a Eurasian herb, Nigella sativa, having pungent aromatic seeds used as a spice, but unrelated to cumin.
  • blanketlike — resembling a blanket
  • blind snake — any burrowing snake of the family Typhlopidae and related families of warm and tropical regions, having very small or vestigial eyes
  • block print — a design printed by means of one or more blocks of wood or metal.
  • blogjacking — the use of another person’s blog without his or her consent, esp for malicious or satirical purposes
  • bluejacking — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to gain access to another, esp in order to send anonymous text messages
  • bolingbroke — the surname of Henry IV of England
  • bolingbrook — a city in NE Illinois.
  • book-ending — a support placed at the end of a row of books to hold them upright, usually used in pairs.
  • bookbindery — a place in which books are bound
  • bookbinding — Bookbinding is the work of fastening books together and putting covers on them.
  • booking fee — a fee that some theatre and agencies charge the customer for booking through them
  • bookkeeping — Bookkeeping is the job or activity of keeping an accurate record of the money that is spent and received by a business or other organization.
  • bookselling — the activity of selling books
  • bootlicking — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
  • bowie knife — a stout hunting knife with a short hilt and a guard for the hand
  • box-ticking — the process of satisfying bureaucratic administrative requirements rather than assessing the actual merit of something
  • brankursine — a bear's-breech, a type of acanthus plant
  • bread knife — a knife designed or suitable for slicing bread, as one having a wavy or saw-toothed blade.
  • break in on — to intrude on
  • break point — a point which allows the receiving player to break the service of the server
  • breaking-up — separation, or the action of separating, into smaller parts
  • bricklaying — the technique or practice of laying bricks
  • brickmaking — the activity of making bricks
  • broken hill — a town in SE Australia, in W New South Wales: mining centre for lead, silver, and zinc. Pop: 19 834 (2001)
  • 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 vein — a ruptured blood vessel
  • broken wind — heaves
  • buckjumping — a competitive event for buckjumpers in a rodeo
  • buckskinned — made of buckskin
  • bulk buying — the purchase at one time, and often at a reduced price, of a large quantity of a particular commodity
  • bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
  • 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
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