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10-letter words containing b, e, k

  • belowdecks — below a ship's deck
  • bench hook — a device with a hooklike part fitting over the front edge of a workbench as a means of preventing an object from slipping toward the rear of the bench.
  • bench mark — a surveyor's mark made on a permanent landmark of known position and altitude: it is used as a reference point in determining other altitudes
  • bench work — work done at a workbench, worktable, etc., as in a factory or laboratory.
  • bergamasko — an inhabitant of Bergamo
  • berkeleian — denoting or relating to the philosophy of George Berkeley
  • berkshires — Also called Berks [burks; British bahrks] /bɜrks; British bɑrks/ (Show IPA). a county in S England. 485 sq. mi. (1255 sq. km).
  • berzerkley — Berzerkeley
  • bespeckled — to speckle.
  • besprinkle — to sprinkle all over with liquid, powder, etc
  • beta stock — any of the second rank of active securities on the Stock Exchange, of which there are about 500. Continuous display of prices by market makers is required but not immediate publication of transactions
  • bierkeller — a public house decorated in German style, selling German beers
  • big ticket — costing a great deal; expensive: fur coats and other big-ticket items.
  • big-ticket — If you describe something as a big-ticket item, you mean that it costs a lot of money.
  • bilge keel — one of two keel-like projections along the bilges of some vessels to improve sideways stability
  • birkenhead — a port in NW England, in Wirral unitary authority, Merseyside: former shipbuilding centre. Pop: 83 729 (2001)
  • bit bucket — (jargon)   1. (Or "write-only memory", "WOM") The universal data sink (originally, the mythical receptacle used to catch bits when they fall off the end of a register during a shift instruction). Discarded, lost, or destroyed data is said to have "gone to the bit bucket". On Unix, often used for /dev/null. Sometimes amplified as "the Great Bit Bucket in the Sky". 2. The place where all lost mail and news messages eventually go. The selection is performed according to Finagle's Law; important mail is much more likely to end up in the bit bucket than junk mail, which has an almost 100% probability of getting delivered. Routing to the bit bucket is automatically performed by mail-transfer agents, news systems, and the lower layers of the network. 3. The ideal location for all unwanted mail responses: "Flames about this article to the bit bucket." Such a request is guaranteed to overflow one's mailbox with flames. 4. Excuse for all mail that has not been sent. "I mailed you those figures last week; they must have landed in the bit bucket." Compare black hole. This term is used purely in jest. It is based on the fanciful notion that bits are objects that are not destroyed but only misplaced. This appears to have been a mutation of an earlier term "bit box", about which the same legend was current; old-time hackers also report that trainees used to be told that when the CPU stored bits into memory it was actually pulling them "out of the bit box". Another variant of this legend has it that, as a consequence of the "parity preservation law", the number of 1 bits that go to the bit bucket must equal the number of 0 bits. Any imbalance results in bits filling up the bit bucket. A qualified computer technician can empty a full bit bucket as part of scheduled maintenance. In contrast, a "chad box" is a real container used to catch chad. This may be related to the origin of the term "bit bucket" [Comments ?].
  • bitterbark — an Australian tree, Alstonia constricta, with bitter-tasting bark that is used in preparing tonic medicines
  • bivouacked — a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
  • black bean — an Australian leguminous tree, Castanospermum australe, having thin smooth bark and yellow or reddish flowers: used in furniture manufacture
  • black bear — the common North American bear (Ursus americanus) that lives in forests and feeds mainly on roots and berries
  • black belt — A black belt is worn by someone who has reached a very high standard in a sport such as judo or karate.
  • black bile — one of the four bodily humours; melancholy
  • black code — any code of law that defined and especially limited the rights of former slaves after the Civil War.
  • black diet — deprivation of all food and water as a punishment, often leading to death.
  • black heat — heat emitted by an electric element made from low-resistance thick wire that does not glow red
  • black hole — Black holes are areas in space, where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape from them. Black holes are thought to be formed by collapsed stars.
  • black kite — a bird of prey, Milvus migrans, found in much of Eurasia
  • black lead — to colour or rub with black lead
  • black pope — the head of the Jesuit order (so called from the power he once possessed and from the black habit worn by the order).
  • black sage — a shrubby Californian plant, Salvia mellifera, of the mint family, having an interrupted spike of lavender-blue or white flowers.
  • black site — a secret facility used by a country's military as a prison and interrogation centre, whose existence is denied by the government
  • black stem — a disease of plants, characterized by blackened stems and defoliation, caused by any of several fungi, as Ascochyta imperfecta or Mycosphaerella lethalis.
  • black tern — a small tern with a black head and body, Chlidonias niger, found on all continents except Australasia
  • blackbeard — nickname of (Edward) Teach
  • blackberry — A blackberry is a small, soft black or dark purple fruit.
  • blackfella — an Aborigine or Black person
  • blackheart — an abnormal darkening of the woody stems of some plants, thought to be caused by extreme cold
  • blackheath — a residential district in SE London, mainly in the boroughs of Lewisham and Greenwich: a large heath formerly notorious for highwaymen
  • blackplate — cold-rolled sheet steel before pickling or cleaning.
  • blacksnake — any of several Old World black venomous elapid snakes, esp Pseudechis porphyriacus (Australian blacksnake)
  • blackstone — Sir William. 1723–80, English jurist noted particularly for his Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–69), which had a profound influence on jurisprudence in the US
  • blackwater — a stream stained dark with peat
  • blank tape — magnetic tape that has no recorded sound or image, as an unused or erased tape.
  • blanketing — a large, rectangular piece of soft fabric, often with bound edges, used especially for warmth as a bed covering.
  • blitzkrieg — A blitzkrieg is a fast and intense military attack that takes the enemy by surprise and is intended to achieve a very quick victory.
  • block line — a rope or cable used in a block and tackle
  • block vote — A block vote is a large number of votes that are all cast in the same way by one person on behalf of a group of people.
  • blockflote — a recorder.
  • blockhouse — (formerly) a wooden fortification with ports or loopholes for defensive fire, observation, etc
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