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11-letter words containing k

  • buck-passer — a person who regularly seeks to shift blame or responsibility to someone else
  • bucket down — If the rain buckets down, or if it buckets down with rain, it rains very heavily.
  • bucket list — a list of experiences one wants to have before one dies
  • bucket seat — A bucket seat is a seat for one person in a car or aeroplane which has rounded sides that partly enclose and support the body.
  • bucket shop — an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
  • bucket-load — a large quantity
  • buckjumping — a competitive event for buckjumpers in a rodeo
  • buckle down — If you buckle down to something, you start working seriously at it.
  • buckskinned — made of buckskin
  • bukhara rug — a kind of rug, typically having a black-and-white geometrical pattern on a reddish ground
  • bulk buying — the purchase at one time, and often at a reduced price, of a large quantity of a particular commodity
  • bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
  • 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.
  • bull-necked — having a short thick neck
  • bullwhacker — (especially in the early 19th century) the driver of a team of oxen.
  • bumper jack — a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper.
  • bundelkhand — a region of central India: formerly native states, now mainly part of Madhya Pradesh
  • bunker hill — the first battle of the American Revolution, actually fought on Breed's Hill, next to Bunker Hill, near Boston, on June 17, 1775. Though defeated, the colonists proved that they could stand against British regular soldiers
  • 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 jacket — a casual jacket or shirt having four patch pockets and a belt
  • bush shrike — any shrike of the African subfamily Malaconotinae, such as Chlorophoneus nigrifrons (black-fronted bush shrike)
  • bush tucker — any wild animal, insect, plant or plant extract, etc traditionally used as food by native Australians
  • bushwalking — an expedition on foot in the bush
  • 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
  • by the book — according to the rules; in the prescribed or usual way
  • by the neck — (of a bottle of beer) served unpoured
  • 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
  • cache block — cache line
  • cack-handed — If you describe someone as cack-handed, you mean that they handle things in an awkward or clumsy way.
  • cackleberry — a hen's egg used for food.
  • cake makeup — face makeup in the form of a cake, usually applied with a damp sponge.
  • cakewalking — Present participle of cakewalk.
  • 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.
  • candlemaker — Someone who makes candles; candler.
  • candlestick — A candlestick is a narrow object with a hole at the top which holds a candle.
  • caneworking — A glassblowing technique that uses rods of coloured glass to add intricate patterns and stripes to blown glass objects.
  • canker sore — an ulceration, esp of the lips or lining of the oral cavity
  • cankerworms — Plural form of cankerworm.
  • canvas duck — a lightweight cotton or linen fabric.
  • canvas-back — a North American wild duck, Aythya valisineria, the male of which has a whitish back and a reddish-brown head and neck.
  • canvasbacks — Plural form of canvasback.
  • capped hock — any swelling, inflammatory or otherwise, on the point of the hock of horses.
  • carbon sink — areas of vegetation, esp forests, and the phytoplankton-rich seas that absorb the carbon dioxide produced by the burning of fossil fuels
  • care worker — A care worker is someone whose job involves helping people who have particular problems or special needs, for example in a care home.
  • care-taking — a person who is in charge of the maintenance of a building, estate, etc.; superintendent.
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