11-letter words containing k, l
- block print — a design printed by means of one or more blocks of wood or metal.
- block trade — the purchase and sale of blocks of securities through brokers, sometimes not members of an exchange, who negotiate between buyers and sellers.
- blockbuster — A blockbuster is a film or book that is very popular and successful, usually because it is very exciting.
- blogjacking — the use of another person’s blog without his or her consent, esp for malicious or satirical purposes
- blood fluke — any parasitic flatworm, such as a schistosome, that lives in the blood vessels of man and other vertebrates: class Digenea
- blood-caked — caked with blood
- bloodsucker — A bloodsucker is any creature that sucks blood from a wound that it has made in an animal or person.
- blow a kiss — to kiss one's hand, then blow across it as if to carry the kiss through the air to another person
- blue streak — anything regarded as like a streak of lightning in speed, vividness, etc.
- bluejacking — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to gain access to another, esp in order to send anonymous text messages
- boilermaker — a person who works with metal in heavy industry; plater or welder
- bok globule — a dense spherical cloud of gas and dust in interstellar space that absorbs light from stars.
- bolingbroke — the surname of Henry IV of England
- bolingbrook — a city in NE Illinois.
- book titles — (publication) There is a tradition in hackerdom of informally tagging important textbooks and standards documents with the dominant colour of their covers or with some other conspicuous feature of the cover. Many of these are described in this dictionary under their own entries. See Aluminum Book, Blue Book, Cinderella Book, Devil Book, Dragon Book, Green Book, Orange Book, Pink-Shirt Book, Purple Book, Red Book, Silver Book, White Book, Wizard Book, Yellow Book, bible, rainbow series.
- bookselling — the activity of selling books
- boot-licker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- bootlicking — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- bottle bank — A bottle bank is a large container into which people can put empty bottles so that the glass can be used again.
- bottle rack — a rack for bottles, such as bottles of wine
- bottle-jack — a large jack used for heavy lifts
- brake block — the part of the brake in a train or on a bicycle that is applied to the wheel to slow the vehicle down or stop it
- brake cable — a cable that connects a brake handle, pedal, or lever to a vehicle's braking mechanism
- brake fluid — an oily liquid used to transmit pressure in a hydraulic brake or clutch system
- brake lever — (on a bicycle) a lever on the handlebar that connects to the brake cable and thus operates the braking mechanism
- brake light — a red light attached to the rear of a motor vehicle that lights up when the brakes are applied, serving as a warning to following drivers
- brake pedal — (in a vehicle) a pedal that connects to the brake cable and thus operates the braking mechanism
- brake wheel — (in a windmill) a bevel gearwheel rotating with the wind shaft.
- break a leg — to performer: good luck
- break loose — to free oneself by force
- breast milk — Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies.
- brecksville — a town in N Ohio.
- breechblock — a metal block in breech-loading firearms that is withdrawn to insert the cartridge and replaced to close the breech before firing
- brick-built — made of bricks
- bricklaying — the technique or practice of laying bricks
- bristlelike — resembling a bristle
- broken coal — anthracite in pieces ranging from 2 1/2 to 4 inches (6.5 to 11 cm) in extreme dimension; the largest commercial size, larger than egg coal.
- broken hill — a town in SE Australia, in W New South Wales: mining centre for lead, silver, and zinc. Pop: 19 834 (2001)
- broken line — a discontinuous line or series of line segments, as a series of dashes, or a figure made up of line segments meeting at oblique angles.
- broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
- brooklynese — the speech, especially the pronunciation, thought to be characteristic of a person coming from New York City, especially Brooklyn.
- brotherlike — like a brother
- bucket list — a list of experiences one wants to have before one dies
- bucket-load — a large quantity
- buckle down — If you buckle down to something, you start working seriously at it.
- bulk buying — the purchase at one time, and often at a reduced price, of a large quantity of a particular commodity
- bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
- bull market — A bull market is a situation on the stock market when people are buying a lot of shares because they expect that the shares will increase in value and that they will be able to make a profit by selling them again after a short time. Compare bear market.
- bull-necked — having a short thick neck
- bullwhacker — (especially in the early 19th century) the driver of a team of oxen.