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11-letter words containing k, u, b, e

  • bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
  • butt stroke — a blow struck with the butt of a rifle, as in close combat.
  • butt-cheeks — the flesh of the buttocks
  • cheque book — A cheque book is a book of cheques which your bank gives you so that you can pay for things by cheque.
  • chuck-berryCharles Edward Anderson ("Chuck") born 1926, U.S. rock-'n'-roll singer, musician, and composer.
  • course book — A course book is a textbook that students and teachers use as the basis of a course.
  • curb market — curb (def 5).
  • dark nebula — a type of nebula that is observed by its blocking of radiation from other sources
  • double back — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
  • double ikat — a method of printing woven fabric by tie-dyeing the warp yarns (warp ikat) the weft yarns (weft ikat) or both (double ikat) before weaving.
  • double knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
  • double knot — any of various knots that are reinforced with a second tying
  • double lock — a spring lock that can also serve as a deadbolt by an extra turn of the key
  • double take — a rapid or surprised second look, either literal or figurative, at a person or situation whose significance had not been completely grasped at first: His friends did a double take when they saw how much weight he had lost.
  • double talk — speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.
  • double-bank — to have two rowers pull (each of a number of oars).
  • double-book — to overbook by accepting more than one reservation for the same hotel room, airplane seat, etc.
  • double-deck — Also, double-decked. having two decks, tiers, or levels: a double-deck bunk; a double-deck bus.
  • double-knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
  • double-lock — to lock with two turns of a key, so that a second bolt is engaged.
  • double-park — If someone double-parks their car or their car double-parks, they park in a road by the side of another parked car.
  • double-take — a rapid or surprised second look, either literal or figurative, at a person or situation whose significance had not been completely grasped at first: His friends did a double take when they saw how much weight he had lost.
  • double-talk — speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.
  • doublecheck — Alternative form of double-check.
  • doublespeak — evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse.
  • doublethink — the acceptance of two contradictory ideas or beliefs at the same time.
  • golden buck — a dish consisting of Welsh rabbit topped with a poached egg.
  • hash bucket — hash coding
  • housebreaks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of housebreak.
  • housebroken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
  • huckleberry — the dark-blue or black edible berry of any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Gaylussacia of the heath family.
  • hunchbacked — humpbacked.
  • husbandlike — resembling a husband
  • husking bee — a gathering of farm families or friends to husk corn, usually as part of a celebration or party.
  • jockey club — an association for the regulation and promotion of thoroughbred horse racing, usually composed of racing officials and thoroughbred owners at a specific racetrack or in a particular region.
  • kennel club — an association of dog breeders, usually concerned only with certain breeds of dogs.
  • keyed bugle — a bugle that has keys to make it possible to play a chromatic scale
  • king's blue — cobalt blue.
  • klausenburg — German name of Cluj-Napoca.
  • knuckleball — a slow pitch that moves erratically toward home plate, usually delivered by holding the ball between the thumb and the knuckles of the first joints of the first two or three fingers.
  • knucklebone — (in humans) any of the bones forming a knuckle of a finger.
  • kuiper belt — a disk-shaped region on the edge of the solar system that contains masses of ice and icy rock, believed to be the source of comets with orbital periods of less than 200 years. Compare Oort cloud.
  • luckenbooth — a booth or shop capable of being locked up
  • lucky break — a fortunate and unexpected turn of events
  • lumberjacks — Plural form of lumberjack.
  • lunch break — pause for midday meal
  • make a buck — If you are trying to make a buck, you are trying to earn some money.
  • make-up bag — a bag in which cosmetics are kept
  • marker buoy — a buoy used to distinguish or mark something
  • mecklenburg — a former state in NE Germany, formed in 1934 from two states (Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz)
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