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10-letter words containing t, b, k

  • 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
  • big ticket — costing a great deal; expensive: fur coats and other big-ticket items.
  • big-ticket — If you describe something as a big-ticket item, you mean that it costs a lot of money.
  • bikini cut — a horizontal surgical incision in the lower abdomen, often used for a hysterectomy or a Cesarean delivery, so called because it leaves a less noticeable scar than does a vertical incision.
  • bikini top — the part of a bikini worn over the breasts
  • bit bucket — (jargon)   1. (Or "write-only memory", "WOM") The universal data sink (originally, the mythical receptacle used to catch bits when they fall off the end of a register during a shift instruction). Discarded, lost, or destroyed data is said to have "gone to the bit bucket". On Unix, often used for /dev/null. Sometimes amplified as "the Great Bit Bucket in the Sky". 2. The place where all lost mail and news messages eventually go. The selection is performed according to Finagle's Law; important mail is much more likely to end up in the bit bucket than junk mail, which has an almost 100% probability of getting delivered. Routing to the bit bucket is automatically performed by mail-transfer agents, news systems, and the lower layers of the network. 3. The ideal location for all unwanted mail responses: "Flames about this article to the bit bucket." Such a request is guaranteed to overflow one's mailbox with flames. 4. Excuse for all mail that has not been sent. "I mailed you those figures last week; they must have landed in the bit bucket." Compare black hole. This term is used purely in jest. It is based on the fanciful notion that bits are objects that are not destroyed but only misplaced. This appears to have been a mutation of an earlier term "bit box", about which the same legend was current; old-time hackers also report that trainees used to be told that when the CPU stored bits into memory it was actually pulling them "out of the bit box". Another variant of this legend has it that, as a consequence of the "parity preservation law", the number of 1 bits that go to the bit bucket must equal the number of 0 bits. Any imbalance results in bits filling up the bit bucket. A qualified computer technician can empty a full bit bucket as part of scheduled maintenance. In contrast, a "chad box" is a real container used to catch chad. This may be related to the origin of the term "bit bucket" [Comments ?].
  • 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
  • black kite — a bird of prey, Milvus migrans, found in much of Eurasia
  • black knot — a fungal disease of plums and cherries caused by Dibotryon morbosum, characterized by rough black knotlike swellings on the twigs and branches
  • black list — a list of persons under suspicion, disfavor, censure, etc.: His record as an anarchist put him on the government's blacklist.
  • black rust — a stage in any of several diseases of cereals and grasses caused by rust fungi in which black masses of spores appear on the stems or leaves
  • black site — a secret facility used by a country's military as a prison and interrogation centre, whose existence is denied by the government
  • black spot — If you describe a place, time, or part of a situation as a black spot, you mean that it is particularly bad or likely to cause problems.
  • black stem — a disease of plants, characterized by blackened stems and defoliation, caused by any of several fungi, as Ascochyta imperfecta or Mycosphaerella lethalis.
  • black taxi — a minibus used to transport workers from the townships to the city centres
  • black tern — a small tern with a black head and body, Chlidonias niger, found on all continents except Australasia
  • black titi — See under titi2 .
  • blackheart — an abnormal darkening of the woody stems of some plants, thought to be caused by extreme cold
  • blackheath — a residential district in SE London, mainly in the boroughs of Lewisham and Greenwich: a large heath formerly notorious for highwaymen
  • blackpatch — a disease of red and white clover, caused by an unidentified fungus and characterized by brown or blackish lesions on the plant.
  • blackplate — cold-rolled sheet steel before pickling or cleaning.
  • blackshirt — (in Europe) a member of a fascist organization, esp a member of the Italian Fascist party before and during World War II
  • blacksmith — A blacksmith is a person whose job is making things by hand out of metal that has been heated to a high temperature.
  • blackstone — Sir William. 1723–80, English jurist noted particularly for his Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–69), which had a profound influence on jurisprudence in the US
  • blackstrap — a kind of port wine
  • blackthorn — a thorny Eurasian rosaceous shrub, Prunus spinosa, with black twigs, white flowers, and small sour plumlike fruits
  • blackwater — a stream stained dark with peat
  • blank tape — magnetic tape that has no recorded sound or image, as an unused or erased tape.
  • blanketing — a large, rectangular piece of soft fabric, often with bound edges, used especially for warmth as a bed covering.
  • blastodisk — germinal disk
  • blitzkrieg — A blitzkrieg is a fast and intense military attack that takes the enemy by surprise and is intended to achieve a very quick victory.
  • block mast — a short mast from the head of which a lateen yard is suspended.
  • block vote — A block vote is a large number of votes that are all cast in the same way by one person on behalf of a group of people.
  • blockflote — a recorder.
  • blood knot — barrel knot.
  • bloodstock — Horses that are bred for racing are referred to as bloodstock.
  • bluejacket — a sailor in the Navy
  • body track — the tracks of a railroad yard used for switching or sorting cars.
  • bomb ketch — Nautical. a ketch-rigged vessel of the 17th and 18th centuries, carrying heavy mortars for firing bombs.
  • bonkbuster — a novel characterized by graphic descriptions of the heroine's frequent sexual encounters
  • book match — a match in or from a matchbook.
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