10-letter words containing b, e, k
- backsheesh — Alternative spelling of baksheesh.
- backslider — A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
- backspaced — Simple past tense and past participle of backspace.
- backspaces — Plural form of backspace.
- backsplice — a knot for finishing a rope end neatly, beginning with a crown and proceeding in a series of tucks, each strand over the first adjoining strand and under the next, the strands being split in half at each tuck.
- backstreet — a street in a town remote from the main roads
- backstroke — Backstroke is a swimming stroke that you do lying on your back.
- backtalker — One who backtalks.
- backvelder — a person who lives in a backveld
- backwasher — (textiles) A machine used for washing wool after carding to remove the impurities.
- backwaters — Plural form of backwater.
- backwinded — Simple past tense and past participle of backwind.
- bake blind — to bake (the empty crust of a pie, pastry, etc) by half filling with dried peas, crusts of bread, etc, to keep it in shape
- bake-wares — heat-resistant dishes, as of glass or pottery, in which food may be baked; ovenware.
- bakeapples — Plural form of bakeapple.
- bakehouses — Plural form of bakehouse.
- baker lake — a lake in the Northwest Territories, in N Canada. 975 sq. mi. (2525 sq. km).
- bakersheet — dripping pan.
- balkanized — Simple past tense and past participle of balkanize.
- band brake — a brake using a brake band.
- bank check — A bank check is a check that you can buy from a bank in order to pay someone who is not willing to accept a personal check.
- bank clerk — an employee of a bank
- bank money — checks, drafts, and bank credits other than currency that are the equivalent of money.
- bank paper — bank notes collectively
- bankrolled — money in one's possession; monetary resources.
- bankroller — the person or organization that provides the finance for a project, business, etc
- bankrupted — Law. a person who upon his or her own petition or that of his or her creditors is adjudged insolvent by a court and whose property is administered for and divided among his or her creditors under a bankruptcy law.
- barebacker — (slang) A person who engages in barebacking.
- barenecked — Having the neck bare.
- barkantine — a sailing vessel having three or more masts, square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft-rigged on the other masts.
- barkeepers — Plural form of barkeeper.
- barkentine — a sailing ship of three or more masts rigged square on the foremast and fore-and-aft on the others
- barkhausen — Heinrich Georg. 1881–1956, German physicist; discovered that ferromagnetic material in an increasing magnetic field becomes magnetized in discrete jumps (the Barkhausen effect)
- basketball — Basketball is a game in which two teams of five players each try to score goals by throwing a large ball through a circular net fixed to a metal ring at each end of the court.
- basketcase — Alternative form of basket case.
- basketlike — resembling a basket
- basketwork — work that is interlaced or woven like a basket; wickerwork
- battercake — pancake (def 1).
- be in luck — You can say someone is in luck when they are in a situation where they can have what they want or need.
- beam brick — a face brick for bonding to a concrete lintel poured in place, having a section like a right triangle.
- beanie key — feature key
- beanstalks — Plural form of beanstalk.
- bed jacket — a woman's short upper garment worn over a nightgown when sitting up in bed
- bee killer — robber fly.
- beekeepers — Plural form of beekeeper.
- beekeeping — Beekeeping is the practice of owning and taking care of bees.
- bell crank — a lever with two arms having a common fulcrum at their junction
- belly pack — fanny pack.
- belly tank — a fuel tank in the belly of a plane
- belly-like — resembling a belly