11-letter words containing b, e, k
- berzerkeley — (humour) /b*r-zer'klee/ (From "berserk", via the name of a now-deceased record label) A humorous distortion of "Berkeley" used especially to refer to the practices or products of the BSD Unix hackers. See software bloat, Missed'em-five, Berkeley Quality Software. Mainstream use of this term in reference to the cultural and political peculiarities of UC Berkeley as a whole has been reported from as far back as the 1960s.
- bethel park — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- bewhiskered — having whiskers on the cheeks
- biblioklept — a person who steals books.
- big bickies — a large sum of money
- bikini line — A woman's bikini line is the edges of the area where her pubic hair grows.
- bill broker — a person whose business is the purchase and sale of bills of exchange
- biofeedback — a technique for teaching the control of autonomic functions, such as the rate of heartbeat or breathing, by recording the activity and presenting it (usually visually) so that the person can know the state of the autonomic function he or she is learning to control
- biokinetics — the study of movements of or within organisms.
- bird strike — a collision of an aircraft with a bird
- bird's beak — beak (def 9).
- bitter dock — any of various weedy plants belonging to the genus Rumex, of the buckwheat family, as R. obtusifolius (bitter dock) or R. acetosa (sour dock) having long taproots.
- 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 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 death — a deadly disease, probably bubonic plague, which devastated Europe and Asia in the 14th cent.
- black house — a type of thatched house, usually made of turf, formerly found in the highlands and islands of Scotland
- black maple — a tree, Acer saccharum nigrum, of eastern and central North America, having furrowed, blackish bark and yellow-green flowers.
- black medic — a widespread weedy annual plant (Medicago lupulina) of the pea family, with small yellow flowers and black seed pods, sometimes grown for forage
- black metal — a type of heavy-metal music characterized by extremely nihilistic and satanic lyrics, a repetitive drum beat rapidly alternating betweeen the snare and bass drum (a blast beat), and the ghoulish make-up worn by performers (corpse paint)
- black money — that part of a nation's income that relates to its black economy
- black olive — a tropical American tree, Bucida buceras, having leathery leaves and greenish-yellow flowers.
- 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).
- black sheep — If you describe someone as the black sheep of their family or of a group that they are a member of, you mean that they are considered bad or worthless by other people in that family or group.
- black water — household waste water that cannot be reused without purification
- black whale — a black, dolphinlike whale, Globicephala melaena, of the North Atlantic.
- blackballed — to vote against (a candidate, applicant, etc.).
- blackbeetle — oriental cockroach.
- blackbirder — a person or vessel involved in the capture and transportation of slaves
- blackfellow — Australian Aborigine
- blackhander — a member of a Black Hand group
- blacklister — someone who blacklists
- blacktongue — canine pellagra.
- bladderlike — resembling a bladder
- blanca peak — highest peak of the Sangre de Cristo range, S Colo.: 14,317 ft (4,364 m)
- blank check — If someone is given a blank check, they are given the authority to spend as much money as they need or want.
- blank shell — a shotgun shell containing powder but no shot.
- blank slate — tabula rasa.
- blank verse — Blank verse is poetry that does not rhyme. In English literature it usually consists of lines with five stressed syllables.
- blanket bog — a very acid peat bog, low in nutrients, extending widely over a flat terrain, found in cold wet climates
- blanketlike — resembling a blanket
- blanketweed — a type of filamentous pond algae
- bleak house — a novel (1852) by Charles Dickens.
- blind snake — any burrowing snake of the family Typhlopidae and related families of warm and tropical regions, having very small or vestigial eyes
- block house — Stock Exchange. a firm that specializes in block trades.
- block plane — a carpenter's small plane used to cut across the end grain of wood
- block trade — the purchase and sale of blocks of securities through brokers, sometimes not members of an exchange, who negotiate between buyers and sellers.