10-letter words containing t, a, k
- back story — background information provided, often in narrative form, to give help in understanding something, as the behavior of a character in a film
- back tooth — a tooth in the back of your jaw
- back water — to reverse the direction of a boat, esp to push the oars of a rowing boat to slow it down or stop it
- back-cloth — backdrop (def 1).
- back-dated — If a purchase order or invoice is back-dated, it is given a date that is some time before the date it was actually prepared.
- back-track — to return over the same course or route.
- back-trail — to backtrack.
- backbiters — Plural form of backbiter.
- 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.
- backcloths — Plural form of backcloth.
- backcourts — Plural form of backcourt.
- backdating — Present participle of backdate.
- backend-to — in a reversed position; backward.
- backlights — Plural form of backlight.
- backlisted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlist.
- backplates — Plural form of backplate.
- backseater — A navigator who accompanies the pilot of an aircraft.
- backsights — Plural form of backsight.
- backstairs — a secondary staircase in a house, esp one originally for the use of servants
- backstitch — a strong sewing stitch made by starting the next stitch at the middle or beginning of the preceding one
- backstreet — a street in a town remote from the main roads
- backstroke — Backstroke is a swimming stroke that you do lying on your back.
- backtalker — One who backtalks.
- backtracks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backtrack.
- backwaters — Plural form of backwater.
- bakersheet — dripping pan.
- baking tin — an open metal container in which dough, cake mixture etc can be placed for baking
- 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 night — Informal. (especially in the 1930s) an evening when prizes are awarded to members of the audience at a motion-picture theater.
- bank vault — a strongroom in a bank for the storage of valuable items
- 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.
- bark cloth — a papery fabric made from the fibrous inner bark of various trees, esp of the moraceous genus Ficus and the leguminous genus Brachystegia
- 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
- basketball — Basketball is a game in which two teams of five players each try to score goals by throwing a large ball through a circular net fixed to a metal ring at each end of the court.
- basketcase — Alternative form of basket case.
- basketlike — resembling a basket
- basketwork — work that is interlaced or woven like a basket; wickerwork
- bath brick — a brick-shaped piece of calcareous earth, used for cleaning polished metal
- battercake — pancake (def 1).
- beanstalks — Plural form of beanstalk.
- bed jacket — a woman's short upper garment worn over a nightgown when sitting up in bed
- belly tank — a fuel tank in the belly of a plane
- beta stock — any of the second rank of active securities on the Stock Exchange, of which there are about 500. Continuous display of prices by market makers is required but not immediate publication of transactions
- bitterbark — an Australian tree, Alstonia constricta, with bitter-tasting bark that is used in preparing tonic medicines
- black belt — A black belt is worn by someone who has reached a very high standard in a sport such as judo or karate.
- black diet — deprivation of all food and water as a punishment, often leading to death.
- black gnat — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
- black heat — heat emitted by an electric element made from low-resistance thick wire that does not glow red