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11-letter words containing k, o, n

  • block grant — (in Britain) an annual grant made by the government to a local authority to help to pay for the public services it provides, such as health, education, and housing
  • 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.
  • blogjacking — the use of another person’s blog without his or her consent, esp for malicious or satirical purposes
  • bolingbroke — the surname of Henry IV of England
  • bolingbrook — a city in NE Illinois.
  • bond market — the market in which bonds are traded
  • bone shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
  • bone-shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
  • bonus stock — shares of stock, usually common, given by a corporation as a bonus with the purchase of another class of security
  • book-ending — a support placed at the end of a row of books to hold them upright, usually used in pairs.
  • bookbindery — a place in which books are bound
  • bookbinding — Bookbinding is the work of fastening books together and putting covers on them.
  • booking fee — a fee that some theatre and agencies charge the customer for booking through them
  • bookkeeping — Bookkeeping is the job or activity of keeping an accurate record of the money that is spent and received by a business or other organization.
  • bookselling — the activity of selling books
  • 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.
  • bounce back — If you bounce back after a bad experience, you return very quickly to your previous level of success, enthusiasm, or activity.
  • bowie knife — a stout hunting knife with a short hilt and a guard for the hand
  • box-ticking — the process of satisfying bureaucratic administrative requirements rather than assessing the actual merit of something
  • break in on — to intrude on
  • break point — a point which allows the receiving player to break the service of the server
  • brocken bow — anticorona.
  • 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 home — a family in which one parent is absent, usually due to divorce or desertion: children from broken homes.
  • 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.
  • broken reed — a weak, unreliable, or ineffectual person
  • broken vein — a ruptured blood vessel
  • broken wind — heaves
  • broken-down — A broken-down vehicle or machine no longer works because it has something wrong with it.
  • brooklynese — the speech, especially the pronunciation, thought to be characteristic of a person coming from New York City, especially Brooklyn.
  • brown snake — any of various common venomous snakes of the genus Pseudonaja
  • bucket down — If the rain buckets down, or if it buckets down with rain, it rains very heavily.
  • buckle down — If you buckle down to something, you start working seriously at it.
  • bus network — (networking)   A network topology in which all nodes are connected to a single wire or set of wires (the bus). Bus networks typically use CSMA/CD techniques to determine which node should transmit data at any given time. Some networks are implemented as a bus, e.g. Ethernet - a one-bit bus operating at 10, 100, 1000 or 10,000 megabits per second. Originally Ethernet was a physical layer bus consisting of a wire (with terminators at each end) to which each node was attached. Switched Ethernet, while no longer physically a bus still acts as one at the logical layers.
  • cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
  • caneworking — A glassblowing technique that uses rods of coloured glass to add intricate patterns and stripes to blown glass objects.
  • canker sore — an ulceration, esp of the lips or lining of the oral cavity
  • cankerworms — Plural form of cankerworm.
  • carbon sink — areas of vegetation, esp forests, and the phytoplankton-rich seas that absorb the carbon dioxide produced by the burning of fossil fuels
  • cartoonlike — cartoonish
  • chain-smoke — Someone who chain-smokes smokes cigarettes or cigars continuously.
  • chalkstones — Plural form of chalkstone.
  • check up on — to examine the record, character, etc. of; investigate
  • checkpoints — Plural form of checkpoint.
  • chicken out — If someone chickens out of something they were intending to do, they decide not to do it because they are afraid.
  • chicken pox — a disease, commonly of children, caused by the varicella zoster virus and characterized by mild headache and fever, malaise, and eruption of blisters on the skin and mucous membranes.
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