10-letter words containing a, b, k
- buckpasser — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
- buckraking — the practice of accepting large sums of money for speaking to special interest groups.
- buena park — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 78,000
- bulk cargo — unpackaged cargoes, such as grain or coal
- bulk large — to be or seem important or prominent
- bull shark — a requiem shark, Carcharhinus leucas, inhabiting shallow waters from North Carolina to Brazil.
- bull snake — any burrowing North American nonvenomous colubrid snake of the genus Pituophis, typically having yellow and brown markings
- bundesbank — the central bank of Germany
- burckhardt — Jacob Christoph. 1818–97, Swiss art and cultural historian; author of The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)
- burushaski — a language of NW Kashmir, not known to be related to any other language.
- bushwalker — a person who hikes through bushland
- butt-naked — completely naked
- by mistake — accidentally, not on purpose
- cabin deck — the deck above the weather deck in the bridge house of a ship.
- cabin hook — a hook and eye for fastening a cabinet door or the like.
- cable-knit — knitted using the cable stitch
- calicoback — harlequin bug
- canebrakes — Plural form of canebrake.
- canvasback — a North American diving duck, Aythyra valisineria, the male of which has a white body and reddish-brown head
- carry back — to apply (a legally permitted credit, esp an operating loss) to the taxable income of previous years in order to ease the overall tax burden
- cat basket — a basket used for transporting a cat
- chainbrake — a device for cutting off the power to a chainsaw if the saw kicks back
- chalkboard — A chalkboard is a dark-coloured board that you can write on with chalk. Chalkboards are often used by teachers in the classroom.
- chargeback — the return of funds by a seller to a buyer's debit or credit card account
- cheboksary — a port in W central Russia on the River Volga: capital of the Chuvash Republic. Pop: 446 000 (2005 est)
- china bark — cinchona (sense 2)
- choke back — If you choke back tears or a strong emotion, you force yourself not to show your emotion.
- city break — a short holiday spent in a city
- clarksburg — a city in N West Virginia, on the Monongahela River.
- class book — a book published by members of a school or college class, containing pictures of students and teachers, an account of student activities, etc.
- 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
- coal-black — of a very dark black
- cockabully — any of several small freshwater fish of New Zealand
- cockleboat — cockboat.
- comebacker — (baseball) A pop fly that falls behind home plate, typically caught by the catcher for an out.
- corkboards — Plural form of corkboard.
- cornerback — a defensive back
- crab stick — a stick of finely ground white fish, coloured to resemble crabmeat
- crabsticks — Plural form of crabstick.
- crack baby — an infant, typically born prematurely, with a condition caused by the excessive consumption of crack cocaine by the mother during pregnancy and characterized by malformations and learning disabilities
- crackberry — a nickname for a BlackBerry handheld device that functions as a telephone, PDA, and e-mailer and appears to have an addictive hold on its users
- crackbrain — a person who is insane
- crakeberry — The crowberry.
- cube steak — a thin slice of beef that has been tenderized by being cubed
- deck cabin — a cabin on the deck of a boat from which the vessel is steered
- disc brake — a brake system in which a disc attached to a wheel is slowed by the friction of brake pads being pressed against the disc by a caliper.
- disembarks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disembark.
- disk brake — A disk brake is a brake in which external friction pads press onto a disk, usually by the action of a caliper.
- dislikable — Not capable or worthy of being liked; not liked; regarded with displeasure or aversion.