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10-letter words containing r, a, k

  • brake disc — a metal disc that revolves with the wheel in a disc brake
  • brake drum — the cast-iron drum attached to the hub of a wheel of a motor vehicle fitted with drum brakes
  • brake fade — a gradual loss of braking power resulting from decreased friction between the lining and the drum or disc of the brake and usually caused by overheating.
  • brake shoe — the curved metal casting to which the brake lining is riveted in a drum brake
  • brake-fade — the decrease in efficiency of braking of a motor vehicle due to overheating of the brakes
  • brass neck — effrontery; nerve
  • breadknife — a knife, usually with a serrated blade, used for cutting slices from a loaf of bread
  • breadstick — bread baked in a long thin crisp stick
  • break away — If you break away from someone who is trying to hold you or catch you, you free yourself and run away.
  • break bulk — of or relating to packaged cargo, usually manufactured goods, that is marked for individual consignees and has to be loaded and unloaded piece by piece at each point of transfer. Compare bulk1 (def 3), containerization.
  • break camp — to pack up equipment and leave a camp
  • 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 step — to cease to march in step
  • break wind — to emit wind from the anus
  • break with — to end a relationship or association with (someone or an organization or social group)
  • break-bulk — of or relating to packaged cargo, usually manufactured goods, that is marked for individual consignees and has to be loaded and unloaded piece by piece at each point of transfer. Compare bulk1 (def 3), containerization.
  • break-even — having income exactly equal to expenditure, thus showing neither profit nor loss.
  • breakables — objects that are delicate and could be easily broken
  • 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
  • breakwater — A breakwater is a wooden or stone wall that extends from the shore into the sea and is built in order to protect a harbour or beach from the force of the waves.
  • breastwork — a temporary defensive work, usually breast-high
  • brick wall — a wall made out of brick
  • brickearth — a clayey alluvium suitable for the making of bricks: specifically, such a deposit in southern England, yielding a fertile soil
  • bricklayer — A bricklayer is a person whose job is to build walls using bricks.
  • brickmaker — a person who makes bricks
  • bridgetalk — (language)   A visual language.
  • bring back — Something that brings back a memory makes you think about it.
  • brook farm — an experimental communist community established by writers and scholars in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, from 1841 to 1847
  • brook park — a city in NE Ohio.
  • brookhaven — a town in SW Mississippi.
  • buckpasser — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
  • 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
  • bulk cargo — unpackaged cargoes, such as grain or coal
  • bulk large — to be or seem important or prominent
  • bull shark — a requiem shark, Carcharhinus leucas, inhabiting shallow waters from North Carolina to Brazil.
  • burckhardt — Jacob Christoph. 1818–97, Swiss art and cultural historian; author of The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)
  • burushaski — a language of NW Kashmir, not known to be related to any other language.
  • bushwalker — a person who hikes through bushland
  • caipiroska — a cocktail drink containing vodka, lime juice, sugar, and crushed ice, based on the Caipirinha cocktail but with vodka replacing the Brazilian rum-like spirit Cachaça
  • cake eater — a ladies' man.
  • cake flour — finely ground wheat flour.
  • camerawork — The camerawork in a film is the way it has been filmed, especially if the style is interesting or unusual in some way.
  • 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
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