10-letter words containing n, k
- breadknife — a knife, usually with a serrated blade, used for cutting slices from a loaf of bread
- break down — If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
- break even — to attain a level of activity, as in commerce, or a point of operation, as in gambling, at which there is neither profit nor loss
- break into — If someone breaks into a building, they get into it by force.
- break wind — to emit wind from the anus
- break-even — having income exactly equal to expenditure, thus showing neither profit nor loss.
- breakdance — to perform break dancing.
- breakfront — (of a bookcase, bureau, etc) having a slightly projecting central section
- breakpoint — an instruction inserted by a debug program causing a return to the debug program
- brick-kiln — a kiln in which blocks of clay are baked into bricks
- bring back — Something that brings back a memory makes you think about it.
- broken ice — sea ice that covers from 50 to 80 percent of the surface of water in any particular area.
- broken lot — an irregular quantity or lot of securities that is smaller than the amount normally traded
- brokenness — the quality of being broken
- brookhaven — a town in SW Mississippi.
- buck naked — Someone who is buck naked is not wearing any clothes at all.
- buckingham — a town in S central England, in Buckinghamshire; university (1975). Pop: 12 512 (2001)
- buckraking — the practice of accepting large sums of money for speaking to special interest groups.
- buena park — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 78,000
- bull snake — any burrowing North American nonvenomous colubrid snake of the genus Pituophis, typically having yellow and brown markings
- bumpkinish — like a bumpkin
- bumsucking — obsequious behaviour; toadying
- bunch pink — sweet william.
- bundesbank — the central bank of Germany
- bunker oil — Nautical. oil taken on board a tanker as fuel, as distinguished from the oil carried as cargo.
- bush knife — a large heavy knife suitable for outdoor use
- butt-naked — completely naked
- buttonhook — a thin tapering hooked instrument formerly used for pulling buttons through the buttonholes of gloves, shoes, etc
- cabin deck — the deck above the weather deck in the bridge house of a ship.
- cabin hook — a hook and eye for fastening a cabinet door or the like.
- cable-knit — knitted using the cable stitch
- cackhanded — left-handed
- cake stand — a plate on a pedestal used for displaying cakes in a shop or café, or for special cakes such as wedding cakes
- candlewick — unbleached cotton or muslin into which loops of yarn are hooked and then cut to give a tufted pattern. It is used for bedspreads, dressing gowns, etc
- canebrakes — Plural form of canebrake.
- caney fork — a river in central Tennessee, flowing NW to the Cumberland River. 144 miles (232 km) long.
- cankeredly — spitefully or crabbedly
- cankerroot — goldthread.
- cankerworm — the larva of either of two geometrid moths, Paleacrita vernata or Alsophila pometaria, which feed on and destroy fruit and shade trees in North America
- canvasback — a North American diving duck, Aythyra valisineria, the male of which has a white body and reddish-brown head
- canvaslike — resembling canvas
- caretaking — a person who is in charge of the maintenance of a building, estate, etc.; superintendent.
- carjacking — A carjacking is an attack on a person who is driving their own car during which things may be stolen or they may be harmed physically.
- case knife — sheath knife
- catskinner — an operator of a vehicle or machine with caterpillar treads.
- centistoke — one hundredth of a stoke
- centrelink — the Australian federal agency that distributes welfare funds
- chain-link — designating a fence made of galvanized steel links that are continuously interwoven
- chain-work — any decorative product, handiwork, etc., in which parts are looped or woven together, like the links of a chain.
- chainbrake — a device for cutting off the power to a chainsaw if the saw kicks back