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10-letter words containing n, k

  • back bacon — lean bacon from the back of a pig's loin
  • back bench — any of the rows of seats occupied by the backbenchers.
  • back green — grass or a garden at the back of a house, esp a tenement
  • back slang — a type of slang in which words are spelled and, as far as possible, pronounced backwards
  • backbiting — If you accuse someone of backbiting, you mean that they say unpleasant or unkind things about someone who is not present, especially in order to stop them doing well at work.
  • backburned — Simple past tense and past participle of backburn.
  • backburner — a condition of low priority or temporary deferment (usually used in the phrase on the back burner): Put other issues on the back burner until after the election.
  • backdating — Present participle of backdate.
  • backend-to — in a reversed position; backward.
  • backfiring — Present participle of backfire.
  • backgammon — Backgammon is a game for two people, played on a board marked with long triangles. Each player has 15 wooden or plastic discs. The players throw dice and move the discs around the board.
  • background — Your background is the kind of family you come from and the kind of education you have had. It can also refer to such things as your social and racial origins, your financial status, or the type of work experience that you have.
  • backhanded — A backhanded compliment is a remark which seems to be an insult but could also be understood as a compliment. A backhanded compliment is also a remark which seems to be a compliment but could also be understood as an insult.
  • backhander — A backhander is an amount of money that is illegally paid to someone in a position of authority in order to encourage them to do something.
  • backplanes — Plural form of backplane.
  • backronyms — Plural form of backronym.
  • backswings — Plural form of backswing.
  • backwinded — Simple past tense and past participle of backwind.
  • badakhshan — a former province in NE Afghanistan.
  • bake blind — to bake (the empty crust of a pie, pastry, etc) by half filling with dried peas, crusts of bread, etc, to keep it in shape
  • baking tin — an open metal container in which dough, cake mixture etc can be placed for baking
  • balikbayan — (Philippines) A Filipino returning to the Philippines after spending time in another country. (from 20th c.).
  • balikpapan — a city in Indonesia, on the SE coast of Borneo. Pop: 409 023 (2000)
  • balkan war — Also called First Balkan War. a war (1912–13) in which Bulgaria, Serbia, and Greece opposed Turkey.
  • balkanized — Simple past tense and past participle of balkanize.
  • band brake — a brake using a brake band.
  • banja luka — a city in NW Bosnia-Herzegovina, on the Vrbas River: scene of battles between the Austrians and Turks in 1527, 1688, and 1737; besieged by Serb forces (1992–95). Pop: 182 000 (2005 est)
  • bank check — A bank check is a check that you can buy from a bank in order to pay someone who is not willing to accept a personal check.
  • bank clerk — an employee of a bank
  • bank draft — A bank draft is a cheque which you can buy from a bank in order to pay someone who is not willing to accept a personal cheque.
  • bank money — checks, drafts, and bank credits other than currency that are the equivalent of money.
  • bank night — Informal. (especially in the 1930s) an evening when prizes are awarded to members of the audience at a motion-picture theater.
  • bank paper — bank notes collectively
  • bank vault — a strongroom in a bank for the storage of valuable items
  • bankrolled — money in one's possession; monetary resources.
  • bankroller — the person or organization that provides the finance for a project, business, etc
  • bankruptcy — Bankruptcy is the state of being bankrupt.
  • bankrupted — Law. a person who upon his or her own petition or that of his or her creditors is adjudged insolvent by a court and whose property is administered for and divided among his or her creditors under a bankruptcy law.
  • barenecked — Having the neck bare.
  • barkantine — a sailing vessel having three or more masts, square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft-rigged on the other masts.
  • barkentine — a sailing ship of three or more masts rigged square on the foremast and fore-and-aft on the others
  • barkhausen — Heinrich Georg. 1881–1956, German physicist; discovered that ferromagnetic material in an increasing magnetic field becomes magnetized in discrete jumps (the Barkhausen effect)
  • barracking — Present participle of barrack.
  • be in luck — You can say someone is in luck when they are in a situation where they can have what they want or need.
  • beanie key — feature key
  • beanstalks — Plural form of beanstalk.
  • beekeeping — Beekeeping is the practice of owning and taking care of bees.
  • bell crank — a lever with two arms having a common fulcrum at their junction
  • belly tank — a fuel tank in the belly of a plane
  • bench hook — a device with a hooklike part fitting over the front edge of a workbench as a means of preventing an object from slipping toward the rear of the bench.
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