10-letter words containing k, o, b
- buttonhook — a thin tapering hooked instrument formerly used for pulling buttons through the buttonholes of gloves, shoes, etc
- cabin hook — a hook and eye for fastening a cabinet door or the like.
- calicoback — harlequin bug
- cellblocks — Plural form of cellblock.
- chalkboard — A chalkboard is a dark-coloured board that you can write on with chalk. Chalkboards are often used by teachers in the classroom.
- cheboksary — a port in W central Russia on the River Volga: capital of the Chuvash Republic. Pop: 446 000 (2005 est)
- checkbooks — Plural form of checkbook.
- cheekbones — Plural form of cheekbone.
- chequebook — a book containing detachable blank cheques and issued by a bank or building society to holders of cheque accounts
- choke back — If you choke back tears or a strong emotion, you force yourself not to show your emotion.
- chokeberry — any of various North American rosaceous shrubs of the genus Aronia
- chop block — butcher-block.
- chubb lock — a type of lock with a device that sets the bolt immovably if the lock is picked
- class book — a book published by members of a school or college class, containing pictures of students and teachers, an account of student activities, etc.
- coal-black — of a very dark black
- cobweblike — Resembling or characteristic of a cobweb.
- cockabully — any of several small freshwater fish of New Zealand
- cockblocks — Plural form of cockblock.
- cockleboat — cockboat.
- cockleburr — Alternative form of cocklebur.
- cockleburs — Plural form of cocklebur.
- cockscombs — Plural form of cockscomb.
- 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.
- comebacker — (baseball) A pop fly that falls behind home plate, typically caught by the catcher for an out.
- comic book — A comic book is a magazine that contains stories told in pictures.
- corkboards — Plural form of corkboard.
- cornerback — a defensive back
- coursebook — a book studied on an educational course
- cross buck — an offensive play in which two running backs cross paths and charge into the line on opposite sides, one back receiving the ball from the quarterback and the other back faking possession.
- cuckoo bee — any of several species of parasitic or inquiline bee the queen of which lays her eggs in the nest of the bumblebee or other species, sometimes killing the host queen, leaving her eggs to be raised by the workers of the nest
- deblocking — Present participle of deblock.
- desk-bound — engaged in or involving sedentary work, as at an office desk
- 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).
- dobzhansky — Theodosius (Grigorievich) [gri-gawr-ee-uh-vich,, -gohr-] /grɪˈgɔr i ə vɪtʃ,, -ˈgoʊr-/ (Show IPA), 1900–75, U.S. geneticist, born in Russia.
- dog basket — a basket for a dog to sleep in
- donnybrook — an inordinately wild fight or contentious dispute; brawl; free-for-all.
- doukhobors — Dukhobors
- dream book — a book, pamphlet, etc., that lists common dreams and purports to interpret them, especially in regard to their meaning for the future.
- drop black — carbon, as animal black or lampblack, formed into pellets by mixing with water or glue: used as a black pigment.
- duckboards — Plural form of duckboard.
- facebooker — A person using the social networking website Facebook.
- flakeboard — a form of particle board.
- flat broke — having no money
- foot brake — a brake that is operated by pressure on a foot pedal, as in an automobile.
- force back — If you force back an emotion or desire, you manage, with an effort, not to experience it.
- fuck about — to act in a stupid or aimless manner
- funny book — comic book.
- go back on — at, to, or toward the rear; backward: to step back.
- go back to — revert