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10-letter words containing k, i

  • big-ticket — If you describe something as a big-ticket item, you mean that it costs a lot of money.
  • bikini cut — a horizontal surgical incision in the lower abdomen, often used for a hysterectomy or a Cesarean delivery, so called because it leaves a less noticeable scar than does a vertical incision.
  • bikini top — the part of a bikini worn over the breasts
  • bikini wax — a treatment to remove hair from the bikini line with hot wax
  • bilge keel — one of two keel-like projections along the bilges of some vessels to improve sideways stability
  • biobanking — the practice of creating large-scale repositories of human biological material (eg blood, urine, tissue samples, DNA, etc) designed to further medical research
  • birkenhead — a port in NW England, in Wirral unitary authority, Merseyside: former shipbuilding centre. Pop: 83 729 (2001)
  • bit bucket — (jargon)   1. (Or "write-only memory", "WOM") The universal data sink (originally, the mythical receptacle used to catch bits when they fall off the end of a register during a shift instruction). Discarded, lost, or destroyed data is said to have "gone to the bit bucket". On Unix, often used for /dev/null. Sometimes amplified as "the Great Bit Bucket in the Sky". 2. The place where all lost mail and news messages eventually go. The selection is performed according to Finagle's Law; important mail is much more likely to end up in the bit bucket than junk mail, which has an almost 100% probability of getting delivered. Routing to the bit bucket is automatically performed by mail-transfer agents, news systems, and the lower layers of the network. 3. The ideal location for all unwanted mail responses: "Flames about this article to the bit bucket." Such a request is guaranteed to overflow one's mailbox with flames. 4. Excuse for all mail that has not been sent. "I mailed you those figures last week; they must have landed in the bit bucket." Compare black hole. This term is used purely in jest. It is based on the fanciful notion that bits are objects that are not destroyed but only misplaced. This appears to have been a mutation of an earlier term "bit box", about which the same legend was current; old-time hackers also report that trainees used to be told that when the CPU stored bits into memory it was actually pulling them "out of the bit box". Another variant of this legend has it that, as a consequence of the "parity preservation law", the number of 1 bits that go to the bit bucket must equal the number of 0 bits. Any imbalance results in bits filling up the bit bucket. A qualified computer technician can empty a full bit bucket as part of scheduled maintenance. In contrast, a "chad box" is a real container used to catch chad. This may be related to the origin of the term "bit bucket" [Comments ?].
  • bitterbark — an Australian tree, Alstonia constricta, with bitter-tasting bark that is used in preparing tonic medicines
  • bivouacked — a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
  • black bile — one of the four bodily humours; melancholy
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • bolsheviks — a member of the more radical majority of the Social Democratic Party, 1903–17, advocating immediate and forceful seizure of power by the proletariat. (after 1918) a member of the Russian Communist Party.
  • book price — the value of a car as defined by the manufacturers or other accredited organization
  • bookbinder — A bookbinder is a person whose job is fastening books together and putting covers on them.
  • bookmaking — Bookmaking is the activity of taking people's money when they bet and paying them money if they win.
  • bookmobile — a vehicle providing lending library facilities
  • bookviewer — A hypertext documentation system from Oracle based on Oracle Toolkit. It allows the user to create private links and bookmarks, and to make multimedia annotations.
  • bootlicker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
  • bootmaking — the activity of making boots and shoes
  • boris bike — any bicycle rented out by London's public bicycle hire scheme
  • bousingken — a drinking house frequented by thieves or other disreputable characters
  • bracketing — a set of brackets
  • bradykinin — a peptide in blood plasma that dilates blood vessels and causes contraction of smooth muscles. Formula: C50H73N15O11
  • brailowsky — Alexander [al-ig-zan-der,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr/ (Show IPA), 1896–1976, Russian pianist.
  • brake disc — a metal disc that revolves with the wheel in a disc brake
  • breadknife — a knife, usually with a serrated blade, used for cutting slices from a loaf of bread
  • breadstick — bread baked in a long thin crisp stick
  • break into — If someone breaks into a building, they get into it by force.
  • break wind — to emit wind from the anus
  • 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
  • brick wall — a wall made out of brick
  • brick-kiln — a kiln in which blocks of clay are baked into bricks
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