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11-letter words containing b, a, r, k

  • bake-wares' — heat-resistant dishes, as of glass or pottery, in which food may be baked; ovenware.
  • bakersfield — city in SC Calif.: pop. 247,000
  • baking tray — A baking tray is the same as a baking sheet.
  • ballbreaker — a person, esp a woman, whose character and behaviour may be regarded as threatening a man's sense of power
  • bandkeramik — the pottery of the early Neolithic Danubian culture of Europe, having characteristic parallel spiral lines over the body and neck of the gourdlike vessels and dated 5000–4000 b.c.
  • bank robber — someone who steals from a bank, often using violence
  • bankrolling — Present participle of bankroll.
  • bankrupting — Present participle of bankrupt.
  • bannockburn — a village in central Scotland, south of Stirling: nearby is the site of a victory (1314) of the Scots, led by Robert the Bruce, over the English. Pop: 7396 (2001)
  • bantam work — Coromandel work.
  • barebacking — sexual intercourse performed without the use of a condom
  • bareknuckle — (of a prizefight, prizefighter, etc.) without boxing gloves; using the bare fists.
  • barge spike — a square spike with a chisel point.
  • bark beetle — any small beetle of the family Scolytidae, which bore tunnels in the bark and wood of trees, causing great damage. They are closely related to the weevils
  • barking mad — If you say that someone is barking mad, you mean that they are insane or are acting very strangely.
  • barley sack — a burlap bag.
  • barrel knot — a knot for fastening together two strands of gut or nylon, as fishing lines or leaders.
  • baryshnikov — Mikhail. born 1948, Soviet-born ballet dancer, who defected (1974) to the West while on tour with the Kirov Ballet: director (1980–90) of the American Ballet Theatre
  • baskerville — a style of type
  • basket fern — a small, compact fern, Nephrolepis pectinata, of tropical America, often grown in hanging baskets.
  • basket star — any echinoderm of the class Ophiuroidea, especially of the genus Gorgonocephalus, having long, slender, branching arms.
  • basket-star — any of several echinoderms of the genus Gorgonocephalus, in which long slender arms radiate from a central disc: order Ophiuroidea (brittle-stars)
  • basketmaker — A person who makes baskets.
  • beaker folk — a prehistoric people thought to have originated in the Iberian peninsula and spread to central Europe and Britain during the second millennium bc
  • bear market — A bear market is a situation on the stock market when people are selling a lot of shares because they expect that the shares will decrease in value and that they will be able to make a profit by buying them again after a short time. Compare bull market.
  • beauty mark — A beauty mark is a small, dark spot on the skin that is supposed to add to a woman's beauty.
  • beaverbrook — 1st Baron, title of William Maxwell Aitken. 1879–1964, British newspaper proprietor and Conservative politician, born in Canada, whose newspapers included the Daily Express; minister of information (1918); minister of aircraft production (1940–41)
  • beavercreek — a town in SW Ohio.
  • beckenbauer — Franz. born 1945, German footballer: team captain when West Germany won the World Cup (1974): manager of West Germany (1984–90), coaching the team to success in the 1990 World Cup
  • before dark — If you do something before dark, you do it before the sun sets and night begins.
  • bell beaker — a bell-shaped beaker, especially one associated with the Beaker folk.
  • bethel park — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
  • bikini scar — a horizontal scar on the lower abdomen in the area where a bikini would be worn, usually resulting from a Caesarean section.
  • bikram yoga — a form of yoga in which traditional exercises are performed at high temperature and humidity
  • bird's beak — beak (def 9).
  • bismarckian — of, relating to, or resembling Otto von Bismarck, especially in respect to his aggressiveness in politics and diplomacy.
  • bitter lake — a salt lake containing in solution a high concentration of sulfates, carbonates, and chlorides.
  • black alder — a deciduous shrub (Ilex verticillata) of the holly family, native to E North America, with glossy leaves that turn black in the fall and bright-red berries
  • black birch — sweet birch.
  • black bread — a kind of very dark coarse rye bread
  • black bream — a dark-coloured food and game fish, Acanthopagrus australis, of E Australian seas
  • black dwarf — a cold, dark dwarf star
  • black friar — a Dominican friar
  • black frost — a frost without snow or rime that is severe enough to blacken vegetation
  • black humor — a form of humor that regards human suffering as absurd rather than pitiable, or that considers human existence as ironic and pointless but somehow comic.
  • black ivory — Black slaves collectively
  • black maria — a police van for transporting prisoners
  • black perch — a livebearing surfperch, Embiotoca jacksoni, occurring in abundance along the coast of California, having brownish-black scales often tinged with blue or yellow and a thick, reddish mouth.
  • black power — a social, economic, and political movement of Black people, esp in the US, to obtain equality with White people
  • black racer — blacksnake (def 1).
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