11-letter words containing k
- 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
- backtalking — Present participle of backtalk.
- backtracked — Simple past tense and past participle of backtrack.
- backtracker — One who, or that which, backtracks.
- backwashing — A form of water treatment in which water is pumped backwards through the filter media, sometimes with intermittent use of compressed air.
- 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.
- baked beans — Baked beans are dried beans cooked in tomato sauce in Britain or cooked with salt pork in North America. Baked beans are usually sold in cans.
- bakersfield — city in SC Calif.: pop. 247,000
- baking dish — a usually ceramic dish in which items can be baked
- baking soda — Baking soda is the same as bicarbonate of soda.
- baking tray — A baking tray is the same as a baking sheet.
- ball hockey — a game similar to ice hockey, but played on foot on a hard surface without ice, using a hard plastic ball instead of a puck
- ballbreaker — a person, esp a woman, whose character and behaviour may be regarded as threatening a man's sense of power
- ban ki-moon — born 1944, South Korean international civil servant; secretary-general of the United Nations from 2007
- banana skin — The thick yellow or green covering of a banana is called a banana skin.
- banded pack — two products which are held together with a band and sold together at a discounted price
- 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.
- banjo clock — a clock of the early 19th century in the U.S., having a drumlike case for the dial mounted on a narrow, tapering body, with a boxlike bottom containing the pendulum and its weight.
- bank robber — someone who steals from a bank, often using violence
- bankability — acceptable for processing by a bank: bankable checks and money orders.
- banking 2.0 — a name given to several radical departures from the traditional model of banking, esp the use of communications technology to facilitate lending between individuals
- banking pin — either of two pins for damping or halting the oscillation, in either direction, of a balance or lever.
- bankrolling — Present participle of bankroll.
- bankrupting — Present participle of bankrupt.
- bannockburn — a village in central Scotland, south of Stirling: nearby is the site of a victory (1314) of the Scots, led by Robert the Bruce, over the English. Pop: 7396 (2001)
- bantam work — Coromandel work.
- barebacking — sexual intercourse performed without the use of a condom
- bareknuckle — (of a prizefight, prizefighter, etc.) without boxing gloves; using the bare fists.
- barge spike — a square spike with a chisel point.
- bark beetle — any small beetle of the family Scolytidae, which bore tunnels in the bark and wood of trees, causing great damage. They are closely related to the weevils
- barking mad — If you say that someone is barking mad, you mean that they are insane or are acting very strangely.
- barley sack — a burlap bag.
- barrel knot — a knot for fastening together two strands of gut or nylon, as fishing lines or leaders.
- baryshnikov — Mikhail. born 1948, Soviet-born ballet dancer, who defected (1974) to the West while on tour with the Kirov Ballet: director (1980–90) of the American Ballet Theatre
- bashibazouk — (in the 19th century) one of a group of irregular Turkish soldiers notorious for their brutality
- basingstoke — a town in S England, in N Hampshire. Pop: 90 171 (2001)
- baskerville — a style of type
- basket case — If someone describes a country or organization as a basket case, they mean that its economy or finances are in a seriously bad state.
- basket fern — a small, compact fern, Nephrolepis pectinata, of tropical America, often grown in hanging baskets.
- basket fish — basket star.
- basket hilt — a hilt fitted to a broadsword, with a generally padded basket-shaped guard to protect the hand
- basket star — any echinoderm of the class Ophiuroidea, especially of the genus Gorgonocephalus, having long, slender, branching arms.
- basket-star — any of several echinoderms of the genus Gorgonocephalus, in which long slender arms radiate from a central disc: order Ophiuroidea (brittle-stars)
- basketballs — Plural form of basketball.
- basketmaker — A person who makes baskets.