10-letter words containing b, e, k
- break even — to attain a level of activity, as in commerce, or a point of operation, as in gambling, at which there is neither profit nor loss
- break into — If someone breaks into a building, they get into it by force.
- break step — to cease to march in step
- break wind — to emit wind from the anus
- break with — to end a relationship or association with (someone or an organization or social group)
- break-bulk — of or relating to packaged cargo, usually manufactured goods, that is marked for individual consignees and has to be loaded and unloaded piece by piece at each point of transfer. Compare bulk1 (def 3), containerization.
- break-even — having income exactly equal to expenditure, thus showing neither profit nor loss.
- breakables — objects that are delicate and could be easily broken
- breakdance — to perform break dancing.
- breakfront — (of a bookcase, bureau, etc) having a slightly projecting central section
- breakpoint — an instruction inserted by a debug program causing a return to the debug program
- breakwater — A breakwater is a wooden or stone wall that extends from the shore into the sea and is built in order to protect a harbour or beach from the force of the waves.
- breastwork — a temporary defensive work, usually breast-high
- brickearth — a clayey alluvium suitable for the making of bricks: specifically, such a deposit in southern England, yielding a fertile soil
- brickfield — an area of ground where bricks are made
- bricklayer — A bricklayer is a person whose job is to build walls using bricks.
- brickmaker — a person who makes bricks
- bridgetalk — (language) A visual language.
- bridgework — a partial denture attached to the surrounding teeth
- brockhouse — Bertram Neville, 1918–2003, Canadian physicist: Nobel Prize 1994.
- brockville — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- broken ice — sea ice that covers from 50 to 80 percent of the surface of water in any particular area.
- broken lot — an irregular quantity or lot of securities that is smaller than the amount normally traded
- brokenness — the quality of being broken
- brokership — an agent who buys or sells for a principal on a commission basis without having title to the property.
- brookfield — a city in SE Wisconsin, near Milwaukee.
- brookhaven — a town in SW Mississippi.
- buck fever — nervous excitement felt by inexperienced hunters at the approach of game
- buck naked — Someone who is buck naked is not wearing any clothes at all.
- buck teeth — upper front teeth which stick out
- bucket out — to empty out with or as if with a bucket
- buckjumper — an untamed horse
- buckpasser — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
- buena park — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 78,000
- bulk large — to be or seem important or prominent
- bull snake — any burrowing North American nonvenomous colubrid snake of the genus Pituophis, typically having yellow and brown markings
- bullbucker — a foreman who supervises fallers and buckers.
- bundesbank — the central bank of Germany
- bunker oil — Nautical. oil taken on board a tanker as fuel, as distinguished from the oil carried as cargo.
- bush knife — a large heavy knife suitable for outdoor use
- bushwalker — a person who hikes through bushland
- butt-naked — completely naked
- buttermilk — Buttermilk is the liquid that remains when fat has been removed from cream when butter is being made. You can drink buttermilk or use it in cooking.
- by mistake — accidentally, not on purpose
- cabin deck — the deck above the weather deck in the bridge house of a ship.
- cable-knit — knitted using the cable stitch
- canebrakes — Plural form of canebrake.
- cat basket — a basket used for transporting a cat
- cellblocks — Plural form of cellblock.
- chainbrake — a device for cutting off the power to a chainsaw if the saw kicks back