8-letter words containing k
- bro talk — Māori English
- brockage — a defect or fault imposed on a coin during its minting.
- brockton — city in E Mass., near Boston: pop. 94,000
- broekies — underpants
- brokered — an agent who buys or sells for a principal on a commission basis without having title to the property.
- brookite — a reddish-brown to black mineral consisting of titanium oxide in orthorhombic crystalline form: occurs in silica veins. Formula: TiO2
- brooklet — a small brook
- brooklyn — a borough of New York City, on the SW end of Long Island. Pop: 2 465 326 (2000)
- brookner — Anita. 1928–2016, British writer and art historian. Her novels include Hotel du Lac (1984), which won the Booker Prize, Brief Lives (1990), and The Next Big Thing (2002)
- bruckner — Anton (ˈantoːn). 1824–96, Austrian composer and organist in the Romantic tradition. His works include nine symphonies, four masses, and a Te Deum
- buck for — If you are bucking for something, you are working very hard to get it.
- buck-eye — any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Aesculus, as A. glabra (Ohio buckeye) having palmate leaves, gray, scaly bark, and bell-shaped greenish-yellow flowers in upright clusters: the state tree of Ohio.
- buckaroo — a cowboy
- buckbean — a marsh plant, Menyanthes trifoliata, with white or pink flowers: family Menyanthaceae
- bucketed — a deep, cylindrical vessel, usually of metal, plastic, or wood, with a flat bottom and a semicircular bail, for collecting, carrying, or holding water, sand, fruit, etc.; pail.
- buckfast — a fortified tonic wine
- buckhorn — horn from a buck, used for knife handles, etc
- buckjump — (of a horse) to buck.
- buckland — William. 1784–1856, English geologist; he became a proponent of the idea of catastrophic ice ages
- buckling — Buckling happens when a force presses on a slender structure and makes it collapse.
- buckrake — a large rake for agricultural use, often attached to a tractor
- buckshee — without charge; free
- buckshot — Buckshot consists of pieces of lead fired from a gun when hunting animals.
- buckskin — Buckskin is soft, strong leather made from the skin of a deer or a goat.
- buckstay — a beam held by stays to the exterior of a masonry wall, as that of a furnace or boiler, to keep the adjacent areas of the wall from being forced outward.
- bucktail — a fishing lure adorned with deer hair
- bukharin — Nikolai Ivanovich (nikaˈlaj iˈvanəvitʃ). 1888–1938, Soviet Bolshevik leader: executed in one of Stalin's purges
- bukovina — a region of E central Europe, part of the NE Carpathians: the north was seized by the Soviet Union (1940) and later became part of Ukraine; the south remained Romanian
- bulgakov — Mikhail Afanaseyev (ʌfʌˈnasjef). 1891–1940, Soviet novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer; his novels include The Master and Margerita (1966–67)
- bulk-buy — to buy (goods) in large quantities
- bulkhead — A bulkhead is a wall which divides the inside of a ship or aeroplane into separate sections.
- bulldyke — a mannish lesbian
- bulllike — the male of a bovine animal, especially of the genus Bos, with sexual organs intact and capable of reproduction.
- bullneck — an enlarged neck
- bullocky — the driver of a team of bullocks
- bunk bed — Bunk beds are two beds fixed one above the other in a frame.
- bunk off — If you bunk off from school or work, you leave without permission and do something else.
- bunkmate — a person who sleeps in the same quarters as another
- bunkroom — temporary sleeping quarters, especially for travelers.
- bushbuck — a small nocturnal spiral-horned antelope, Tragelaphus scriptus, of the bush and tropical forest of Africa. Its coat is reddish-brown with a few white markings
- bushlike — resembling a bush
- bushwalk — to hike through bushland
- buskined — relating to tragic drama
- busywork — Busywork is work that is intended to keep someone occupied and is not completely necessary.
- buttocks — the two large fleshy masses of thick muscular tissue that form the human rump
- buy-back — A buy-back is a situation in which a company buys shares back from its investors.
- buzkashi — a game played in Afghanistan, in which opposing teams of horsemen strive for possession of the headless carcass of a goat
- buzzkill — someone or something that stops people from enjoying themselves
- byrlakin — a mild oath
- cab rank — an area, often specially designated, where taxis wait to pick up passengers