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10-letter words containing k, i

  • 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
  • bridgetalk — (language)   A visual language.
  • bridgework — a partial denture attached to the surrounding teeth
  • brightwork — shiny metal trimmings or fittings on ships, cars, etc
  • 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.
  • brokership — an agent who buys or sells for a principal on a commission basis without having title to the property.
  • brookfield — a city in SE Wisconsin, near Milwaukee.
  • 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.
  • bumpkinish — like a bumpkin
  • bumsucking — obsequious behaviour; toadying
  • bunch pink — sweet william.
  • bunker oil — Nautical. oil taken on board a tanker as fuel, as distinguished from the oil carried as cargo.
  • burushaski — a language of NW Kashmir, not known to be related to any other language.
  • bush knife — a large heavy knife suitable for outdoor use
  • 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
  • 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
  • centistoke — one hundredth of a stoke
  • centrelink — the Australian federal agency that distributes welfare funds
  • chaikovski — Peter Ilyich [il-yich] /ˈɪl yɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich.
  • chain-link — designating a fence made of galvanized steel links that are continuously interwoven
  • chain-work — any decorative product, handiwork, etc., in which parts are looped or woven together, like the links of a chain.
  • chainbrake — a device for cutting off the power to a chainsaw if the saw kicks back
  • chalk line — a chalked string for making a straight line on a large surface, as a wall, by holding the string taut against the surface and snapping it to transfer the chalk.
  • chalkiness — of or like chalk.
  • 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.
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