11-letter words containing k, t, r
- bethel park — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- bird strike — a collision of an aircraft with a bird
- bitter dock — any of various weedy plants belonging to the genus Rumex, of the buckwheat family, as R. obtusifolius (bitter dock) or R. acetosa (sour dock) having long taproots.
- bitter lake — a salt lake containing in solution a high concentration of sulfates, carbonates, and chlorides.
- black frost — a frost without snow or rime that is severe enough to blacken vegetation
- black shirt — a member of any fascist organization (specif., the former Italian Fascist party) with a black-shirted uniform
- black water — household waste water that cannot be reused without purification
- blacklister — someone who blacklists
- block front — Furniture. a front of a desk, chest of drawers, etc., of the third quarter of the 18th century, having three vertical divisions of equal width, a sunken one between raised ones, all divided by flat areas to which they are connected by curves, often with a shell motif forming a rounded termination to each section.
- 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 party — A block party is an outdoor party for all the residents of a block or neighborhood.
- 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.
- blue streak — anything regarded as like a streak of lightning in speed, vividness, etc.
- bond market — the market in which bonds are traded
- book rights — the legal right to make use of the text of a printed book
- boot-licker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- bottle rack — a rack for bottles, such as bottles of wine
- bracket saw — a handsaw for cutting curved forms.
- brake light — a red light attached to the rear of a motor vehicle that lights up when the brakes are applied, serving as a warning to following drivers
- bram stoker — Bram [bram] /bræm/ (Show IPA), (Abraham Stoker) 1847–1912, British novelist, born in Ireland: creator of Dracula.
- brass tacks — basic realities; hard facts (esp in the phrase get down to brass tacks)
- breadbasket — a basket for carrying bread or rolls
- breadsticks — bread baked in long thin crisp sticks
- break it up — stop fighting
- break point — a point which allows the receiving player to break the service of the server
- breakfasted — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
- breast milk — Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies.
- breastworks — a defensive work, usually breast high.
- brick-built — made of bricks
- bristlelike — resembling a bristle
- brook trout — a North American freshwater trout, Salvelinus fontinalis, introduced in Europe and valued as a food and game fish
- brotherlike — like a brother
- brushstroke — Brushstrokes are the marks made on a surface by a painter's brush.
- buck rabbit — Welsh rabbit with either an egg or a piece of toast on top
- bull market — A bull market is a situation on the stock market when people are buying a lot of shares because they expect that the shares will increase in value and that they will be able to make a profit by selling them again after a short time. Compare bear market.
- burkburnett — a town in N Texas.
- 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.
- bush tucker — any wild animal, insect, plant or plant extract, etc traditionally used as food by native Australians
- butt stroke — a blow struck with the butt of a rifle, as in close combat.
- cabin trunk — a large trunk specially designed to be used on journeys, and often having large handles at either end to make it easy to move
- cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
- cakravartin — (in Indian philosophy, politics, etc.) an ideal, universal, enlightened ruler, under whom the world exists in justice and peace.
- call market — the market for lending call money.
- care-taking — a person who is in charge of the maintenance of a building, estate, etc.; superintendent.
- carpet tack — a flat-headed tack used especially to tack down carpets.
- carpetmaker — One who manufactures carpets.
- carrot cake — a sweet cake made with grated carrots
- cartoonlike — cartoonish