11-letter words containing k
- brake servo — The brake servo is a device for increasing the pressure of the driver's foot on the brake pedal.
- brake wheel — (in a windmill) a bevel gearwheel rotating with the wind shaft.
- bram stoker — Bram [bram] /bræm/ (Show IPA), (Abraham Stoker) 1847–1912, British novelist, born in Ireland: creator of Dracula.
- brankursine — a bear's-breech, a type of acanthus plant
- brass tacks — basic realities; hard facts (esp in the phrase get down to brass tacks)
- bread knife — a knife designed or suitable for slicing bread, as one having a wavy or saw-toothed blade.
- breadbasket — a basket for carrying bread or rolls
- breadsticks — bread baked in long thin crisp sticks
- break a leg — to performer: good luck
- break bread — to eat a meal, esp with others
- break cover — (esp of game animals) to come out from a shelter or hiding place
- break dance — an acrobatic dance style originating in the 1980s
- break in on — to intrude on
- break it up — stop fighting
- break loose — to free oneself by force
- break point — a point which allows the receiving player to break the service of the server
- break ranks — to fall out of line, esp when under attack
- breakdancer — a person who does breakdancing
- breakfasted — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
- breaking-up — separation, or the action of separating, into smaller parts
- breast milk — Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies.
- breastworks — a defensive work, usually breast high.
- brecksville — a town in N Ohio.
- breechblock — a metal block in breech-loading firearms that is withdrawn to insert the cartridge and replaced to close the breech before firing
- breshkovsky — Catherine, 1844–1934, Russian revolutionary of noble birth: called “the little grandmother of the Russian Revolution.”.
- brick-built — made of bricks
- bricklaying — the technique or practice of laying bricks
- brickmaking — the activity of making bricks
- brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
- bridge deck — a deck on top of a bridge house; flying bridge.
- bristlelike — resembling a bristle
- brocken bow — anticorona.
- broken coal — anthracite in pieces ranging from 2 1/2 to 4 inches (6.5 to 11 cm) in extreme dimension; the largest commercial size, larger than egg coal.
- broken hill — a town in SE Australia, in W New South Wales: mining centre for lead, silver, and zinc. Pop: 19 834 (2001)
- broken home — a family in which one parent is absent, usually due to divorce or desertion: children from broken homes.
- broken line — a discontinuous line or series of line segments, as a series of dashes, or a figure made up of line segments meeting at oblique angles.
- broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
- broken reed — a weak, unreliable, or ineffectual person
- broken vein — a ruptured blood vessel
- broken wind — heaves
- broken-down — A broken-down vehicle or machine no longer works because it has something wrong with it.
- brook trout — a North American freshwater trout, Salvelinus fontinalis, introduced in Europe and valued as a food and game fish
- brooklynese — the speech, especially the pronunciation, thought to be characteristic of a person coming from New York City, especially Brooklyn.
- brotherlike — like a brother
- brown snake — any of various common venomous snakes of the genus Pseudonaja
- brush maker — a manufacturer or crafter of brushes
- brushstroke — Brushstrokes are the marks made on a surface by a painter's brush.
- buck passer — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
- buck rabbit — Welsh rabbit with either an egg or a piece of toast on top
- buck's fizz — Buck's Fizz is a drink made by mixing champagne or another fizzy white wine with orange juice.