10-letter words containing k, i
- avenuelike — Resembling or characteristic of an avenue.
- awakenings — Plural form of awakening.
- awkwardish — slightly awkward
- azuki bean — adzuki bean.
- back issue — A back issue of a magazine or newspaper is one that was published some time ago and is not the most recent.
- back light — light falling on a photographic or television subject from the rear
- back river — a river in N Canada, flowing northeast through Nunavut to the Arctic Ocean. Length: about 966 km (600 miles)
- back shift — a group of workers who work a shift from late afternoon to midnight in an industry or occupation where a day shift or a night shift is also worked
- back-trail — to backtrack.
- backbiters — Plural form of backbiter.
- backbiting — If you accuse someone of backbiting, you mean that they say unpleasant or unkind things about someone who is not present, especially in order to stop them doing well at work.
- backdating — Present participle of backdate.
- backfilled — Simple past tense and past participle of backfill.
- backfiring — Present participle of backfire.
- backlights — Plural form of backlight.
- backlisted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlist.
- backoffice — (software) A suite of network server software from Microsoft that includes Windows NT Server, BackOffice Server (for the integrated development, deployment, and management of BackOffice applications in departments, branch offices, and medium sized businesses); Exchange Server; Proxy Server; Site Server for intranet publishing, management, and search; Site Server Commerce Edition For comprehensive Internet commerce transactions; Small Business Server for business operations, resource management, and customer relations; SNA Server for the integration of existing and new systems and data; SQL Server for scalable, reliable database and data-warehousing; Systems Management Server (SMS) for centralised change- and configuration-management.
- backsights — Plural form of backsight.
- backslider — A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
- backsplice — a knot for finishing a rope end neatly, beginning with a crown and proceeding in a series of tucks, each strand over the first adjoining strand and under the next, the strands being split in half at each tuck.
- backstairs — a secondary staircase in a house, esp one originally for the use of servants
- backstitch — a strong sewing stitch made by starting the next stitch at the middle or beginning of the preceding one
- backswings — Plural form of backswing.
- backwinded — Simple past tense and past participle of backwind.
- bailiwicks — Plural form of bailiwick.
- bake blind — to bake (the empty crust of a pie, pastry, etc) by half filling with dried peas, crusts of bread, etc, to keep it in shape
- baking tin — an open metal container in which dough, cake mixture etc can be placed for baking
- balalaikas — Plural form of balalaika.
- balashikha — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe: a NE suburb of Moscow.
- balikbayan — (Philippines) A Filipino returning to the Philippines after spending time in another country. (from 20th c.).
- balikpapan — a city in Indonesia, on the SE coast of Borneo. Pop: 409 023 (2000)
- balkanized — Simple past tense and past participle of balkanize.
- bank night — Informal. (especially in the 1930s) an evening when prizes are awarded to members of the audience at a motion-picture theater.
- barkantine — a sailing vessel having three or more masts, square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft-rigged on the other masts.
- barkentine — a sailing ship of three or more masts rigged square on the foremast and fore-and-aft on the others
- barracking — Present participle of barrack.
- basal disk — the flattened basal surface by which coelenterate polyps attach to the substrate.
- basketlike — resembling a basket
- bath brick — a brick-shaped piece of calcareous earth, used for cleaning polished metal
- be in luck — You can say someone is in luck when they are in a situation where they can have what they want or need.
- beam brick — a face brick for bonding to a concrete lintel poured in place, having a section like a right triangle.
- beanie key — feature key
- bee killer — robber fly.
- beekeeping — Beekeeping is the practice of owning and taking care of bees.
- belly-like — resembling a belly
- berkeleian — denoting or relating to the philosophy of George Berkeley
- berkshires — Also called Berks [burks; British bahrks] /bɜrks; British bɑrks/ (Show IPA). a county in S England. 485 sq. mi. (1255 sq. km).
- besprinkle — to sprinkle all over with liquid, powder, etc
- bierkeller — a public house decorated in German style, selling German beers
- big ticket — costing a great deal; expensive: fur coats and other big-ticket items.