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

  • bricklaying — the technique or practice of laying bricks
  • brickmaking — the activity of making bricks
  • brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
  • broken coal — anthracite in pieces ranging from 2 1/2 to 4 inches (6.5 to 11 cm) in extreme dimension; the largest commercial size, larger than egg coal.
  • broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
  • brown snake — any of various common venomous snakes of the genus Pseudonaja
  • brush maker — a manufacturer or crafter of brushes
  • buck passer — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
  • buck rabbit — Welsh rabbit with either an egg or a piece of toast on top
  • buck-passer — a person who regularly seeks to shift blame or responsibility to someone else
  • bukhara rug — a kind of rug, typically having a black-and-white geometrical pattern on a reddish ground
  • bull market — A bull market is a situation on the stock market when people are buying a lot of shares because they expect that the shares will increase in value and that they will be able to make a profit by selling them again after a short time. Compare bear market.
  • bullwhacker — (especially in the early 19th century) the driver of a team of oxen.
  • bumper jack — a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper.
  • bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
  • cabin trunk — a large trunk specially designed to be used on journeys, and often having large handles at either end to make it easy to move
  • cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
  • cackleberry — a hen's egg used for food.
  • carbon sink — areas of vegetation, esp forests, and the phytoplankton-rich seas that absorb the carbon dioxide produced by the burning of fossil fuels
  • cassia bark — the cinnamon-like bark of this tree, used as a spice
  • center back — the player in the middle of the back line.
  • chalkboards — Plural form of chalkboard.
  • chargebacks — Plural form of chargeback.
  • checker cab — a taxi with a checked pattern as part of the trim
  • clark gable — (William) Clark, 1901–60, U.S. film actor.
  • cliff brake — any of several common ferns of the genus Pellaea, usually growing in pockets of thin soil on rocks.
  • codebreaker — A person who solves a code or codes.
  • cookie bear — cookie monster
  • cornerbacks — Plural form of cornerback.
  • cricket bat — a specially shaped, carved wooden bat used to play cricket
  • crookbacked — Hunchbacked.
  • curb market — curb (def 5).
  • cyberattack — an attempt to damage or disrupt a computer system, or obtain information stored on a computer system, by means of hacking
  • dark nebula — a type of nebula that is observed by its blocking of radiation from other sources
  • dealbreaker — A dealbreaker is an issue that prevents people from reaching an agreement.
  • debarkation — Disembarkation.
  • diefenbakerJohn George, 1895–1979, prime minister of Canada 1957–63.
  • disembarked — Simple past tense and past participle of disembark.
  • disembarkee — One who disembarks from a vessel such as an airplane or ship.
  • dogger bank — a shoal in the North Sea, between N England and Denmark: fishing grounds; naval battle 1915.
  • doner kebab — a fast-food dish comprising grilled meat and salad served in pitta bread with chilli sauce
  • double-park — If someone double-parks their car or their car double-parks, they park in a road by the side of another parked car.
  • dragon book — (publication)   The classic text "Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools", by Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman (Addison-Wesley 1986; ISBN 0-201-10088-6). So called because of the cover design featuring a dragon labelled "complexity of compiler design" and a knight bearing the lance "LALR parser generator" among his other trappings. This one is more specifically known as the "Red Dragon Book" (1986); an earlier edition, sans Sethi and titled "Principles Of Compiler Design" (Alfred V. Aho and Jeffrey D. Ullman; Addison-Wesley, 1977; ISBN 0-201-00022-9), was the "Green Dragon Book" (1977). (Also "New Dragon Book", "Old Dragon Book".) The horsed knight and the Green Dragon were warily eying each other at a distance; now the knight is typing (wearing gauntlets!) at a terminal showing a video-game representation of the Red Dragon's head while the rest of the beast extends back in normal space. See also book titles.
  • drakensberg — a mountain range in the E Republic of South Africa: highest peak, 10,988 feet (3350 meters).
  • embarkation — The act of embarking.
  • embarkments — Plural form of embarkment.
  • facebookers — Plural form of facebooker.
  • farkleberry — a shrub or small tree, Vaccinium arboreum, of the heath family, native to the southern U.S., bearing small, waxy, white flowers and black, many-seeded berries.
  • featherback — any freshwater fish of the family Notopteridae, of Asia and western Africa, having a small, feathery dorsal fin and a very long anal fin extending from close behind the head to the tip of the tail.
  • frank dobie — (James) Frank, 1888–1964, U.S. folklorist, educator, and author.
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