10-letter words containing k, o, b
- go berserk — If someone or something goes berserk, they lose control of themselves and become very angry or violent.
- gobsmacked — utterly astounded; astonished.
- gold brick — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
- grade book — a book in which a student's grades are recorded
- green book — 1.
Informal name for one of the four standard references on PostScript. The other three official guides are known as the Blue Book, the Red Book, and the White Book. 2. (publication) Informal name for one of the three standard references on SmallTalk. Also associated with blue and red books. 3. The "X/Open Compatibility Guide", which defines an international standard Unix environment that is a proper superset of POSIX/SVID. It also includes descriptions of a standard utility toolkit, systems administrations features, and the like. This grimoire is taken with particular seriousness in Europe. See Purple Book. 4. The IEEE 1003.1 POSIX Operating Systems Interface standard has been dubbed "The Ugly Green Book". 5. Any of the 1992 standards issued by the ITU-T's tenth plenary assembly. These include, among other things, the dreadful X.400 electronic mail standard and the Group 1 through 4 fax standards. 6. Green Book CD-ROM. See also book titles. - guest book — (web) The electronic equivalent of the physical notebooks found in some small hotels, in which visitors can write their names, comments and suggestions for the benefit of the proprietors and future visitors or purely for posterity. The electronic version is a form on a website into which users can enter similar details for display on the site.
- guidebooks — Plural form of guidebook.
- hack board — Falconry. a board or platform at which hawks being flown at hack are fed.
- heartbroke — heartbroken
- hog-backed — cambered, as the ridge of a roof, a hill, etc.
- home-baked — baked at home; home-made
- housebreak — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- housebroke — Simple past form of housebreak.
- hucklebone — hipbone.
- in back of — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
- in my book — In my book means 'in my opinion' or 'according to my beliefs'.
- ink bottle — a bottle containing ink
- iron brick — brick having a sprinkling of dark spots caused by the presence of iron salts.
- jabberwock — a playful imitation of language consisting of invented, meaningless words; nonsense; gibberish.
- jabotinsky — Vladimir, 1880–1940, Russian Zionist leader in Palestine.
- jack block — a block used in raising or lowering a topgallant yard.
- jackbooted — wearing jackboots.
- jailbroken — an escape from prison, especially by forcible means.
- job market — the total number of vacant jobs open to those seeking employment.
- job seeker — a person who is actively looking for employment.
- job ticket — a slip or card accompanying a job order and used for giving instructions or for recording time spent on the work.
- jobseekers — Plural form of jobseeker.
- jockey box — a glove compartment, especially in a truck.
- jumbo pack — a very large pack. Used mainly in advertising and in the names of products
- junk bonds — any corporate bond with a low rating and a high yield, often involving high risk.
- kabaragoya — The water monitor, Varanus salvator, a large lizard of Southeast Asia.
- katabolism — Alternative form of catabolism.
- keep books — to keep a record of business transactions
- kenophobia — an abnormal fear of empty spaces
- kerbstones — Plural form of kerbstone.
- keyboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of keyboard.
- keyboarder — One who keyboards; a typist.
- khabarovsk — Formerly Far Eastern Region. a territory of the Russian Federation in NE Asia. 965,400 sq. mi. (2,500,400 sq. km).
- kick about — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- kickboards — Plural form of kickboard.
- kickboxing — a form of boxing in which the gloved combatants may also kick with bare feet.
- king cobra — a cobra, Ophiophagus hannah, of southeastern Asia and the East Indies, that grows to a length of more than 15 feet (5 meters): the largest of the venomous snakes.
- knackebrod — flat, thin, brittle unleavened rye bread.
- knob latch — a latch having a spring bolt controlled by a knob on one or both sides.
- knobbiness — the quality or condition of being knobby
- knobkerrie — a short, heavy wooden club with a knob on one end, used especially by native peoples of South Africa for striking and throwing.
- knock back — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
- knockabout — Nautical. any of various fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessels having a single jib bent to a stay from the stemhead, no bowsprit being used: usually rigged as a sloop.
- knockbacks — Plural form of knockback.
- kohlrabies — Plural form of kohlrabi.