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10-letter words containing k, i, t

  • 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 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.
  • blanketing — a large, rectangular piece of soft fabric, often with bound edges, used especially for warmth as a bed covering.
  • blastodisk — germinal disk
  • blitzkrieg — A blitzkrieg is a fast and intense military attack that takes the enemy by surprise and is intended to achieve a very quick victory.
  • bootlicker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
  • bootmaking — the activity of making boots and shoes
  • bracketing — a set of brackets
  • breadstick — bread baked in a long thin crisp stick
  • break into — If someone breaks into a building, they get into it by force.
  • break with — to end a relationship or association with (someone or an organization or social group)
  • breakpoint — an instruction inserted by a debug program causing a return to the debug program
  • brickearth — a clayey alluvium suitable for the making of bricks: specifically, such a deposit in southern England, yielding a fertile soil
  • bridgetalk — (language)   A visual language.
  • brightwork — shiny metal trimmings or fittings on ships, cars, etc
  • broomstick — A broomstick is an old-fashioned broom which has a bunch of small sticks at the end.
  • 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.
  • buttermilk — Buttermilk is the liquid that remains when fat has been removed from cream when butter is being made. You can drink buttermilk or use it in cooking.
  • by mistake — accidentally, not on purpose
  • cable-knit — knitted using the cable stitch
  • 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.
  • 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
  • centistoke — one hundredth of a stoke
  • centrelink — the Australian federal agency that distributes welfare funds
  • chap stick — lip balm
  • check into — to stop or arrest the motion of suddenly or forcibly: He checked the horse at the edge of the cliff.
  • check list — a list of items, facts, names, etc, to be checked or referred to for comparison, identification, or verification
  • checkdigit — (data)   A one-digit checksum.
  • checklists — Plural form of checklist.
  • checkpoint — A checkpoint is a place where traffic is stopped so that it can be checked.
  • chikamatsu — Monzaemon [mawn-zah-e-mawn] /ˈmɔn zɑ ɛˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), 1653–1724, Japanese playwright.
  • chokepoint — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
  • chopsticks — a pair of small sticks of wood or ivory, held together in one hand and used in some Asian countries as utensils, as to lift food to the mouth
  • christlike — resembling or showing the spirit of Jesus Christ
  • city break — a short holiday spent in a city
  • city clerk — a city official who maintains public records and vital statistics, issues licenses, etc.
  • click bait — Click bait is something on a website that encourages people to click on a link.
  • click stop — a control device, as in a camera, that can be turned or rotated so that when it reaches a specific setting it engages with an audible click.
  • clinkstone — a variety of phonolite that makes a metallic sound when struck
  • close-knit — A close-knit group of people are closely linked, do things together, and take an interest in each other.
  • cloth-like — resembling cloth
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