11-letter words containing k
- 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.
- blogjacking — the use of another person’s blog without his or her consent, esp for malicious or satirical purposes
- blood fluke — any parasitic flatworm, such as a schistosome, that lives in the blood vessels of man and other vertebrates: class Digenea
- blood-caked — caked with blood
- bloodsucker — A bloodsucker is any creature that sucks blood from a wound that it has made in an animal or person.
- blow a kiss — to kiss one's hand, then blow across it as if to carry the kiss through the air to another person
- blue streak — anything regarded as like a streak of lightning in speed, vividness, etc.
- bluejacking — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to gain access to another, esp in order to send anonymous text messages
- board check — a body check in which the opponent is thrown against the wooden wall enclosing the rink. Compare check1 (def 37).
- bobby socks — Bobby socks or bobbysox are short socks worn by girls or women.
- body packer — a smuggler of illegal drugs, especially one who swallows bags containing them.
- body-packer — a person who smuggles illicit drugs in balloons, condoms, or similar plastic bags which have either been swallowed or inserted in the rectum or vagina
- boeremusiek — a variety of light music associated with the culture of the Afrikaners
- boilermaker — a person who works with metal in heavy industry; plater or welder
- bok globule — a dense spherical cloud of gas and dust in interstellar space that absorbs light from stars.
- bokhara rug — a Turkoman rug having a tan or red background and decorated with varied octagon patterns.
- bokmakierie — a large yellow shrike, Telephorus zeylonus, of southern Africa, known for its melodious song
- bolingbroke — the surname of Henry IV of England
- bolingbrook — a city in NE Illinois.
- bombay duck — a teleost fish, Harpodon nehereus, that resembles and is related to the lizard fishes: family Harpodontidae. It is eaten dried with curry dishes as a savoury
- 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 jacket — a removable paper cover used to protect a bound book
- book review — a description and analysis of a new book
- book rights — the legal right to make use of the text of a printed book
- book titles — (publication) There is a tradition in hackerdom of informally tagging important textbooks and standards documents with the dominant colour of their covers or with some other conspicuous feature of the cover. Many of these are described in this dictionary under their own entries. See Aluminum Book, Blue Book, Cinderella Book, Devil Book, Dragon Book, Green Book, Orange Book, Pink-Shirt Book, Purple Book, Red Book, Silver Book, White Book, Wizard Book, Yellow Book, bible, rainbow series.
- 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
- boot-licker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- 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.
- bottle rack — a rack for bottles, such as bottles of wine
- bottle-jack — a large jack used for heavy lifts
- 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
- bracket saw — a handsaw for cutting curved forms.
- brake block — the part of the brake in a train or on a bicycle that is applied to the wheel to slow the vehicle down or stop it
- brake cable — a cable that connects a brake handle, pedal, or lever to a vehicle's braking mechanism
- brake fluid — an oily liquid used to transmit pressure in a hydraulic brake or clutch system
- brake lever — (on a bicycle) a lever on the handlebar that connects to the brake cable and thus operates the braking mechanism
- 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
- brake pedal — (in a vehicle) a pedal that connects to the brake cable and thus operates the braking mechanism