8-letter words containing k
- basketry — Basketry is baskets made by weaving together thin strips of materials such as wood.
- baudekin — baldachin
- baulking — to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified (usually followed by at): He balked at making the speech.
- bazookas — Plural form of bazooka.
- beadlike — resembling a bead
- beadwork — a narrow strip of some material used for edging or ornamentation
- beakfish — Any of certain fishes of the family Oplegnathidae.
- beakhead — (nautical) A protruding part of the foremost section of a sailing ship.
- beaklike — Resembling a beak; pointed.
- beanlike — resembling a bean
- bearlike — resembling a bear
- bearskin — A bearskin is a tall fur hat that is worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions.
- beatniks — (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of the Beat Generation.
- beckford — William. 1759–1844, English writer and dilettante; author of the oriental romance Vathek (1787)
- beckmann — Ernst Otto (ɛrnst ˈɔːto). 1853–1923, German chemist: devised the Beckmann thermometer, used for measuring small temperature changes in liquids
- becknell — William, c1790–1865, U.S. frontier trader: opened Santa Fe Trail 1822.
- beckoned — a nod, gesture, etc., that signals, directs, summons, indicates agreement, or the like.
- bedarken — to make dark, to cover in darkness
- bedecked — If a place is bedecked with flags or other ornaments, these things have been hung up to decorate it.
- bedmaker — a person who constructs beds
- bedsocks — the type of socks worn in bed
- beefcake — Attractive men with large muscles can be referred to as beefcake.
- beknight — to esteem
- belostok — a city in E Poland.
- benbrook — a town in N Texas.
- benedick — a newly married man
- bentinck — Lord William Cavendish. 1774–1839, British statesman, governor general of Bengal (1828–35)
- berakhah — a blessing or benediction, usually recited according to a traditional formula.
- berkeley — a city in W California, on San Francisco Bay: seat of the University of California. Pop: 102 049 (2003 est)
- bespoken — a past participle of bespeak.
- bestreak — to streak
- bethwack — to strike hard with a flat object
- bhikshus — a monk.
- bierkase — a semisoft, strong white cow's-milk cheese that originated in Germany, and is eaten especially with beer.
- biforked — two-pronged
- big hook — wrecking crane.
- big talk — bragging or boasting talk
- bigstick — of, or relating to, irresistible military strength
- bikinied — dressed in a bikini
- billbook — a pocketbook record of bills received, paid, etc
- billhook — a cutting tool with a wooden handle and a curved blade terminating in a hook at its tip, used for pruning, chopping, etc
- birdlike — If someone has a birdlike manner, they move or look like a bird.
- birkbeck — George. 1776–1841, British educationalist, who helped to establish vocational training for working men: founder and first president of the London Mechanics Institute (1824), which later became Birkbeck College
- bismarck — a city in North Dakota, on the Missouri River: the state capital. Pop: 56 344 (2003 est)
- bit mask — (programming) A pattern of binary values which is combined with some value using bitwise AND with the result that bits in the value in positions where the mask is zero are also set to zero. For example, if, in C, we want to test if bits 0 or 2 of x are set, we can write int mask = 5; /* binary 101 */ if (x & mask) ... A bit mask might also be used to set certain bits using bitwise OR, or to invert them using bitwise exclusive OR.
- bitstock — the handle or stock of a tool into which a drilling bit is fixed
- biweekly — A biweekly event or publication happens or appears once every two weeks.
- black op — Often, black ops. a secret mission or campaign carried out by a military, governmental, or other organization, typically one in which the organization conceals or denies its involvement: Some national intelligence agencies use black ops to undermine enemy governments. The company even resorted to an industrial black op to steal secrets from its competitor.
- blackcap — a brownish-grey Old World warbler, Sylvia atricapilla, the male of which has a black crown
- blackcod — sablefish.