10-letter words containing k, l, e, b
- broken lot — an irregular quantity or lot of securities that is smaller than the amount normally traded
- brookfield — a city in SE Wisconsin, near Milwaukee.
- bulk large — to be or seem important or prominent
- bull snake — any burrowing North American nonvenomous colubrid snake of the genus Pituophis, typically having yellow and brown markings
- bullbucker — a foreman who supervises fallers and buckers.
- bunker oil — Nautical. oil taken on board a tanker as fuel, as distinguished from the oil carried as cargo.
- bushwalker — a person who hikes through bushland
- 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.
- cable-knit — knitted using the cable stitch
- cellblocks — Plural form of cellblock.
- cherublike — a celestial being. Gen. 3:24; Ezek. 1, 10.
- club steak — a small steak that is cut from the short loin of beef and contains no part of the tenderloin
- cobweblike — Resembling or characteristic of a cobweb.
- cockleboat — cockboat.
- cockleburr — Alternative form of cocklebur.
- cockleburs — Plural form of cocklebur.
- cockwomble — (UK,slang,derogatory) A foolish or obnoxious person.
- cokebottle — (character, humour) /kohk'bot-l/ Any unusual character, particularly one you can't type because it isn't on your keyboard. MIT people used to complain about the "control-meta-cokebottle" commands at SAIL, and SAIL people complained about the "altmode-altmode-cokebottle" commands at MIT. After the demise of the space-cadet keyboard, "cokebottle" was used less, but was often used to describe weird or non-intuitive keystrokes. The OSF/Motif window manager, "mwm" keystroke for switching to the default keybindings and behaviour is control-meta-bang. Since exclamation mark might be thought to look like a Coke bottle, Motif hackers referred to this keystroke as "cokebottle". See also quadruple bucky.
- deblocking — Present participle of deblock.
- devil book — (publication) "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD Unix Operating System", by Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels, and John S. Quarterman (Addison-Wesley Publishers, 1989, ISBN 0-201-06196-1). The standard reference book on the internals of BSD Unix. So called because the cover has a picture depicting a little devil (a visual play on daemon) in sneakers, holding a pitchfork (referring to one of the characteristic features of Unix, the "fork(2)" system call).
- dislikable — Not capable or worthy of being liked; not liked; regarded with displeasure or aversion.
- duckbilled — Having a bill like that of a duck.
- fibrinlike — Resembling or characteristic of fibrin.
- fiddleback — something shaped like a fiddle.
- flakeboard — a form of particle board.
- flare-back — a blast of flame that sometimes issues from the breech of a large gun or cannon when it is opened after firing.
- flarebacks — Plural form of flareback.
- flat broke — having no money
- gulbenkian — Calouste Sarkis (kæˈluːst ˈsɑːkɪz). 1869–1955, British industrialist, born in Turkey. He endowed the international Gulbenkian Foundation for the advancement of the arts, science, and education
- hackleback — shovelnose sturgeon.
- half-baked — insufficiently cooked.
- hucklebone — hipbone.
- ink bottle — a bottle containing ink
- jailbreaks — Plural form of jailbreak.
- jailbroken — an escape from prison, especially by forcible means.
- kabalevsky — Dmitri [duh-mee-tree;; Russian dmyee-tryee] /dəˈmi tri;; Russian ˈdmyi tryi/ (Show IPA), 1904–1987, Russian composer.
- kerb drill — a pedestrian's procedure for crossing a road safely, esp as taught to children
- kettlebell — A large cast-iron ball-shaped weight with a single handle.
- killer bee — a honeybee, Apis mellifera adansonii, native to Africa, that is extremely aggressive and attacks in swarms when disturbed: brought to Brazil and accidentally released there in 1956.
- kimberlite — Petrology. a variety of micaceous peridotite, low in silica content and high in magnesium content, in which diamonds are formed.
- kitembilla — a shrub or small tree, Dovyalis hebecarpa, of India and Sri Lanka, having velvety, maroon-purple fruit.
- klaberjass — a card game played with a 32-card pack, made by removing all cards below the sevens from a regular 52-card pack, in which scoring values are assigned to certain cards taken in tricks, to sequences in the same suit, to the king and queen of trumps, and to the last trick.
- klangfarbe — instrumental timbre or tone colour
- klebsiella — any of several rod-shaped, aerobic bacteria of the genus Klebsiella, certain species of which, as K. pneumoniae, are found in the respiratory, intestinal, and genitourinary tracts of humans and animals and are sometimes pathogenic.
- kohlrabies — Plural form of kohlrabi.
- kumbh mela — a Hindu festival held once every twelve years in one of four sacred sites, where bathing for purification from sin is considered especially efficacious
- lawbreaker — a person who breaks or violates the law.
- lead block — any block that alters the direction of a rope; fairlead.
- lease-back — an arrangement by which a company sells a property and simultaneously obtains a long-term lease from the buyer for continued use of the deeded property
- leasebacks — Plural form of leaseback.