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10-letter words containing t, b, k

  • book token — a gift token to be exchanged for books
  • boot block — (operating system)   A program on a hard disk, floppy disk or other media, which is loaded when the computer is turned on or rebooted and which controls the next phase of loading the actual operating system. The loading and execution of the boot block is usually controlled by firmware in ROM or PROM. It may be at some fixed location possibly or may be pointed to by the master boot record.
  • bootlicker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
  • bootmaking — the activity of making boots and shoes
  • bottleneck — A bottleneck is a place where a road becomes narrow or where it meets another road so that the traffic slows down or stops, often causing traffic jams.
  • bracketing — a set of brackets
  • breadstick — bread baked in a long thin crisp stick
  • break into — If someone breaks into a building, they get into it by force.
  • break step — to cease to march in step
  • break with — to end a relationship or association with (someone or an organization or social group)
  • 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
  • brickearth — a clayey alluvium suitable for the making of bricks: specifically, such a deposit in southern England, yielding a fertile soil
  • bridgetalk — (language)   A visual language.
  • brightwork — shiny metal trimmings or fittings on ships, cars, etc
  • broken lot — an irregular quantity or lot of securities that is smaller than the amount normally traded
  • broomstick — A broomstick is an old-fashioned broom which has a bunch of small sticks at the end.
  • buck teeth — upper front teeth which stick out
  • bucket out — to empty out with or as if with a bucket
  • bucky bits — /buh'kee bits/ 1. Obsolete. The bits produced by the CONTROL and META shift keys on a SAIL keyboard (octal 200 and 400 respectively), resulting in a 9-bit keyboard character set. The MIT AI TV (Knight) keyboards extended this with TOP and separate left and right CONTROL and META keys, resulting in a 12-bit character set; later, LISP Machines added such keys as SUPER, HYPER, and GREEK (see space-cadet keyboard). 2. By extension, bits associated with "extra" shift keys on any keyboard, e.g. the ALT on an IBM PC or command and option keys on a Macintosh. It has long been rumored that "bucky bits" were named after Buckminster Fuller during a period when he was consulting at Stanford. Actually, bucky bits were invented by Niklaus Wirth when *he* was at Stanford in 1964--65; he first suggested the idea of an EDIT key to set the 8th bit of an otherwise 7 bit ASCII character. It seems that, unknown to Wirth, certain Stanford hackers had privately nicknamed him "Bucky" after a prominent portion of his dental anatomy, and this nickname transferred to the bit. Bucky-bit commands were used in a number of editors written at Stanford, including most notably TV-EDIT and NLS. The term spread to MIT and CMU early and is now in general use. Ironically, Wirth himself remained unaware of its derivation for nearly 30 years, until GLS dug up this history in early 1993! See double bucky, quadruple bucky.
  • buff stick — a small stick covered with leather or the like, used in polishing.
  • burckhardt — Jacob Christoph. 1818–97, Swiss art and cultural historian; author of The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)
  • butt-naked — completely naked
  • buttermilk — Buttermilk is the liquid that remains when fat has been removed from cream when butter is being made. You can drink buttermilk or use it in cooking.
  • buttonhook — a thin tapering hooked instrument formerly used for pulling buttons through the buttonholes of gloves, shoes, etc
  • by mistake — accidentally, not on purpose
  • cable-knit — knitted using the cable stitch
  • cat basket — a basket used for transporting a cat
  • check stub — A check stub is the part of a check that is kept by the payee with information such as the check number, date, and amount.
  • city break — a short holiday spent in a city
  • click bait — Click bait is something on a website that encourages people to click on a link.
  • club steak — a small steak that is cut from the short loin of beef and contains no part of the tenderloin
  • cockleboat — cockboat.
  • cokebottle — (character, humour)   /kohk'bot-l/ Any unusual character, particularly one you can't type because it isn't on your keyboard. MIT people used to complain about the "control-meta-cokebottle" commands at SAIL, and SAIL people complained about the "altmode-altmode-cokebottle" commands at MIT. After the demise of the space-cadet keyboard, "cokebottle" was used less, but was often used to describe weird or non-intuitive keystrokes. The OSF/Motif window manager, "mwm" keystroke for switching to the default keybindings and behaviour is control-meta-bang. Since exclamation mark might be thought to look like a Coke bottle, Motif hackers referred to this keystroke as "cokebottle". See also quadruple bucky.
  • crab stick — a stick of finely ground white fish, coloured to resemble crabmeat
  • crabsticks — Plural form of crabstick.
  • cube steak — a thin slice of beef that has been tenderized by being cubed
  • dog basket — a basket for a dog to sleep in
  • dumbstruck — temporarily deprived of the power of speech, as by surprise or confusion; dumbfounded.
  • embankment — A wall or bank of earth or stone built to prevent a river flooding an area.
  • embarkment — Embarkation; the act of setting out.
  • fast break — a play, as in basketball, in which a team quickly moves down the playing area in an attempt to score before an adequate defense can be set up
  • fast-break — to execute or play in the style of a fast break.
  • fight back — retaliate
  • flat broke — having no money
  • foot brake — a brake that is operated by pressure on a foot pedal, as in an automobile.
  • fuck about — to act in a stupid or aimless manner
  • go back to — revert
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