10-letter words containing k, o, b
- book share — a share of a mutual fund credited to the account of a shareholder without the physical issuance of a certificate evidencing ownership.
- book token — a gift token to be exchanged for books
- book value — In business, the book value of an asset is the value it is given in the account books of the company that owns it.
- book-ended — a support placed at the end of a row of books to hold them upright, usually used in pairs.
- bookbinder — A bookbinder is a person whose job is fastening books together and putting covers on them.
- bookkeeper — A bookkeeper is a person whose job is to keep an accurate record of the money that is spent and received by a business or other organization.
- bookmaking — Bookmaking is the activity of taking people's money when they bet and paying them money if they win.
- bookmarked — a ribbon or other marker placed between the pages of a book to mark a place.
- bookmobile — a vehicle providing lending library facilities
- bookreader — DEC's CD-ROM-based on-line documentation browser.
- bookseller — A bookseller is a person who sells books.
- 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.
- boondocker — combat boot.
- boot block — (operating system) A program on a hard disk, floppy disk or other media, which is loaded when the computer is turned on or rebooted and which controls the next phase of loading the actual operating system. The loading and execution of the boot block is usually controlled by firmware in ROM or PROM. It may be at some fixed location possibly or may be pointed to by the master boot record.
- bootlicker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- bootmaking — the activity of making boots and shoes
- borah peak — a mountain in central Idaho, in the Lost River Range: highest peak in Idaho. 12,662 feet (3861 meters).
- boris bike — any bicycle rented out by London's public bicycle hire scheme
- boskop man — the undated cranial remains of a possible Homo sapiens found in the Transvaal of South Africa.
- boss cocky — a boss or person in power
- bottleneck — A bottleneck is a place where a road becomes narrow or where it meets another road so that the traffic slows down or stops, often causing traffic jams.
- boullework — elaborate inlaid work of woods, metals, tortoiseshell, ivory, etc.
- bounceback — the act or an instance of bouncing back, recovering, or recuperating: Fall sales have experienced a tremendous bounceback.
- bousingken — a drinking house frequented by thieves or other disreputable characters
- brahmaloka — the highest part of Kamaloka, where refined souls exist in blissful contemplation of Brahma.
- 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 shoe — the curved metal casting to which the brake lining is riveted in a drum brake
- break down — If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
- break into — If someone breaks into a building, they get into it by force.
- breakfront — (of a bookcase, bureau, etc) having a slightly projecting central section
- breakpoint — an instruction inserted by a debug program causing a return to the debug program
- breastwork — a temporary defensive work, usually breast-high
- brickworks — a factory or plant where bricks are made
- bridgework — a partial denture attached to the surrounding teeth
- brightwork — shiny metal trimmings or fittings on ships, cars, etc
- brockhouse — Bertram Neville, 1918–2003, Canadian physicist: Nobel Prize 1994.
- 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.
- broken lot — an irregular quantity or lot of securities that is smaller than the amount normally traded
- brokenness — the quality of being broken
- brokership — an agent who buys or sells for a principal on a commission basis without having title to the property.
- brook farm — an experimental communist community established by writers and scholars in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, from 1841 to 1847
- brook park — a city in NE Ohio.
- brookfield — a city in SE Wisconsin, near Milwaukee.
- brookhaven — a town in SW Mississippi.
- broomstick — A broomstick is an old-fashioned broom which has a bunch of small sticks at the end.
- bucket out — to empty out with or as if with a bucket
- bulk cargo — unpackaged cargoes, such as grain or coal
- bull block — a machine for drawing wire in which the wire is pulled through the dies by a power-operated drum.
- bunker oil — Nautical. oil taken on board a tanker as fuel, as distinguished from the oil carried as cargo.