11-letter words containing o, r, k
- block chord — a two-handed chord played usually in the middle range of the piano with the left hand duplicating or complementing the right-hand notes.
- block front — Furniture. a front of a desk, chest of drawers, etc., of the third quarter of the 18th century, having three vertical divisions of equal width, a sunken one between raised ones, all divided by flat areas to which they are connected by curves, often with a shell motif forming a rounded termination to each section.
- block grant — (in Britain) an annual grant made by the government to a local authority to help to pay for the public services it provides, such as health, education, and housing
- block party — A block party is an outdoor party for all the residents of a block or neighborhood.
- block print — a design printed by means of one or more blocks of wood or metal.
- 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.
- bloodsucker — A bloodsucker is any creature that sucks blood from a wound that it has made in an animal or person.
- board check — a body check in which the opponent is thrown against the wooden wall enclosing the rink. Compare check1 (def 37).
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- bookbindery — a place in which books are bound
- boot-licker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- bottle rack — a rack for bottles, such as bottles of wine
- 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 servo — The brake servo is a device for increasing the pressure of the driver's foot on the brake pedal.
- bram stoker — Bram [bram] /bræm/ (Show IPA), (Abraham Stoker) 1847–1912, British novelist, born in Ireland: creator of Dracula.
- break cover — (esp of game animals) to come out from a shelter or hiding place
- break in on — to intrude on
- break loose — to free oneself by force
- break point — a point which allows the receiving player to break the service of the server
- breastworks — a defensive work, usually breast high.
- 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.”.
- 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
- brushstroke — Brushstrokes are the marks made on a surface by a painter's brush.