11-letter words containing k, r
- asterisking — Present participle of asterisk.
- at a stroke — If something happens at a stroke or in one stroke, it happens suddenly and completely because of one single action.
- autoworkers — Plural form of autoworker.
- awestricken — filled with awe.
- awkward age — early adolescence.
- awkwardness — lacking skill or dexterity. Synonyms: clumsy, inept; unskillful, unhandy, inexpert. Antonyms: deft, adroit, skillful, dexterous; handy.
- axe-breaker — an Australian oleaceous tree, Notelaea longifolia, yielding very hard timber
- baby broker — an adoption service, esp on the internet
- baby-walker — a light frame on casters or wheels to help a baby learn to walk
- back anchor — a small anchor for backing a larger one.
- back boiler — a tank or series of pipes at the back of a fireplace for heating water
- back burner — If you put an issue on the back burner, you leave it in order to deal with it later because you now consider it to have become less urgent or important.
- back garden — a garden at the rear of a house
- back matter — the parts of a book, such as the index and appendices, that follow the main text
- back number — A back number of a magazine or newspaper is the same as a back issue.
- back stairs — stairs at the back of a house, as for use by servants.
- back street — A back street in a town or city is a small, narrow street with very little traffic.
- back-burner — a condition of low priority or temporary deferment (usually used in the phrase on the back burner): Put other issues on the back burner until after the election.
- back-street — taking place in secrecy and often illegally: back-street political maneuvering; back-street drug dealing.
- backbencher — A backbencher is a Member of Parliament who is not a minister and who does not hold an official position in their political party.
- backbreaker — a wrestling hold in which a wrestler uses his knee or shoulder as a fulcrum to bend his opponent's body backwards
- backcountry — an area far from cities and towns that is thinly populated and largely undeveloped; hinterland
- backcrossed — Simple past tense and past participle of backcross.
- backcrosses — Plural form of backcross.
- backdraught — a reverse movement of air, gas, or liquid
- backgrounds — Plural form of background.
- backhanders — Plural form of backhander.
- backmarkers — Plural form of backmarker.
- backpackers — Plural form of backpacker.
- backscatter — the scattering of particles or radiation, such as sound waves, X-rays, or alpha-particles, by the atoms of the medium through which they pass, in the backward direction
- backscratch — a favour done for someone in return for another
- backseaters — Plural form of backseater.
- backslapper — a person who backslaps; a hearty jovial person
- backstabber — someone who attacks another deceitfully, behind his or her back
- backstopper — a wall, wire screen, or the like, serving to prevent a ball from going too far beyond the normal playing area.
- backstreets — Plural form of backstreet.
- backstretch — the part of a racetrack farthest from the grandstand and opposite and parallel to the homestretch
- backstroker — a person who swims the backstroke, especially a member of a competitive swimming team who specializes in the backstroke.
- backstrokes — Plural form of backstroke.
- backswimmer — an aquatic bug belonging to the family Notonectidae that swims on its back using its back legs as oars
- backtracked — Simple past tense and past participle of backtrack.
- backtracker — One who, or that which, backtracks.
- badderlocks — a seaweed, Alaria esculenta, that has long brownish-green fronds and is eaten in parts of N Europe
- bake-wares' — heat-resistant dishes, as of glass or pottery, in which food may be baked; ovenware.
- bakersfield — city in SC Calif.: pop. 247,000
- baking tray — A baking tray is the same as a baking sheet.
- ballbreaker — a person, esp a woman, whose character and behaviour may be regarded as threatening a man's sense of power
- bandkeramik — the pottery of the early Neolithic Danubian culture of Europe, having characteristic parallel spiral lines over the body and neck of the gourdlike vessels and dated 5000–4000 b.c.
- bank robber — someone who steals from a bank, often using violence
- bankrolling — Present participle of bankroll.