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9-letter words containing k, o, b

  • classbook — a book kept by a teacher recording student attendance, grades, etc.
  • cloudbank — Alternative form of cloud bank.
  • cockblock — (vulgar, slang) To make impossible another's intended goal of sexual intercourse.
  • cockboats — Plural form of cockboat.
  • cocklebur — any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium, having spiny burs: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • cockscomb — the comb of a domestic cock
  • code book — a book containing a list of code signals with their meanings, usually arranged alphabetically.
  • comb back — a Windsor chair back in which the vertical spindles are surmounted by a broad, carved crest rail resembling a comb.
  • come back — If something that you had forgotten comes back to you, you remember it.
  • comebacks — Plural form of comeback.
  • cookbooks — Plural form of cookbook.
  • copybooks — Plural form of copybook.
  • copybroke — (security)   /kop'ee-brohk/ (Or "copywronged" - a play on "copyright") 1. Used to describe an instance of a copy-protected program that has been "broken"; that is, a copy with the copy-protection scheme disabled or removed. 2. Copy-protected software which is unusable because of some bit-rot or bug that has confused the copy protection. 3. Used to describe data damaged because of a side effect of a copy protection system.
  • corkboard — a thin slab made of granules of cork, used as a floor or wall finish and as an insulator
  • corkborer — a tool that cuts a hole in a stopper, allowing a glass tube to be inserted
  • countback — a system of deciding the winner of a tied competition by comparing earlier points or scores
  • cranbrook — a city in SE British Columbia, in SW Canada.
  • crookback — a hunchback
  • crossbuck — (in the US) a white cross-shaped road sign used at railway crossings
  • cryobanks — Plural form of cryobank.
  • cyberbook — (science fiction) A digital or electronic equivalent of a book.
  • datebooks — Plural form of datebook.
  • deck bolt — a flat-headed bolt for fastening down deck planking.
  • deskbound — doing sedentary work; working exclusively at a desk.
  • dicky bow — a bow tie
  • do a bunk — run away
  • door-buck — a sawhorse.
  • doorknobs — Plural form of doorknob.
  • doukhobor — a member of an independent religious sect originating in Russia in the 18th century, believing in the supreme authority of the inner voice and in the transmigration of souls, rejecting the divinity of Christ and the establishing of churches, and expressing opposition to civil authority by refusing to pay taxes, do military service, etc.
  • drop back — a lowering, as of prices or standards, especially to a previous level: Auto manufacturers requested a dropback in emissions standards.
  • dubrovnik — a seaport in S Croatia, on the Adriatic: resort.
  • duckboard — a board or boards laid as a track or floor over wet or muddy ground.
  • duikerbok — duiker.
  • dukhobors — a pacifistic, nonritualistic, mystical religious sect that separated (1785) from the Eastern Orthodox Church: in the 1890s, many members emigrated to W Canada
  • elbowlike — Resembling an elbow.
  • etobicoke — city in SE Ontario, Canada: part of metropolitan Toronto: pop. 329,000
  • fabrikoid — a waterproof fabric made of cloth coated with pyroxylin
  • fake book — a collection of lead sheets for musicians, especially a songbook of standards for use by jazz instrumentalists.
  • flipbooks — Plural form of flipbook.
  • fly block — (in a Spanish burton or the like) a block, supported by a runner, through which the hauling part of the fall is rove.
  • food bank — an agency, group, or center that collects food and distributes it to the needy.
  • footbrake — a brake operated by applying pressure to a foot pedal
  • fork bomb — (programming)   A particular species of wabbit that can be written in one line of C: main() {for(;;)fork();} or shell: $0 & $0 & on any Unix system, or occasionally created by an egregious coding bug. A fork bomb process "explodes" by recursively spawning copies of itself using the Unix system call "fork(2)". Eventually it eats all the process table entries and effectively wedges the system. Fortunately, fork bombs are relatively easy to spot and kill, so creating one deliberately seldom accomplishes more than to bring the just wrath of the gods down upon the perpetrator. See also logic bomb.
  • forkballs — Plural form of forkball.
  • gaolbreak — Alternative form of jailbreak.
  • gear knob — a gear lever
  • gill book — book gill.
  • gin block — a block having a large sheave in an open metal frame, used especially to support a cargo whip.
  • go back n — (networking)   A data link layer protocol.
  • gobstruck — (slang, chiefly, UK) gobsmacked; astonished; astounded.
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