11-letter words containing k, o, l
- block party — A block party is an outdoor party for all the residents of a block or neighborhood.
- block plane — a carpenter's small plane used to cut across the end grain of wood
- 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
- 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
- break loose — to free oneself by force
- breechblock — a metal block in breech-loading firearms that is withdrawn to insert the cartridge and replaced to close the breech before firing
- 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-load — a large quantity
- buckle down — If you buckle down to something, you start working seriously at it.
- cache block — cache line
- cartoonlike — cartoonish
- casual work — temporary, as opposed to permanent or regular, employment
- chalkboards — Plural form of chalkboard.
- chalkstones — Plural form of chalkstone.
- chess clock — a timer for chess players, having a dial for each player on which his or her accumulated time is recorded and a device for stopping one timer and starting the other at the end of each move.
- chockablock — pulled so tight as to have the blocks touching
- chucklesome — amusing; full of humour
- cinderblock — Made of cinder blocks.
- clock in at — If something such as a CD or film clocks in at a particular amount of time, it is that amount of time long.
- clock radio — a radio combined with an alarm clock in a compact cabinet, the clock serving as a timer to turn the radio on or off at a preset time.
- clock speed — clock rate
- clock tower — A clock tower is a tall, narrow building with a clock at the top.
- clock watch — a watch that strikes the hours. Compare repeater (def 3).
- clock-radio — a device combining the functions of a radio and alarm clock which can be used to play the radio at a set time
- clock-timer — timer (def 4).
- close ranks — to maintain discipline or solidarity, esp in anticipation of attack
- closed book — something deemed unknown or incapable of being understood