9-letter words containing b, o, k
- ball cock — a device for regulating the flow of a liquid into a tank, cistern, etc, consisting of a floating ball mounted at one end of an arm and a valve on the other end that opens and closes as the ball falls and rises with the water level in the cistern
- ballcocks — Plural form of ballcock.
- bank giro — a British giro system operated by clearing banks to enable customers to pay sums of money to others by credit transfer
- bank loan — a sum of money borrowed by a customer or business from a bank, often for a specific purpose, such as buying a car
- bank note — a promissory note issued by a bank, payable on demand: it is a form of paper money
- bank shot — Basketball. a shot into the basket, made by rebounding the ball off the backboard.
- bankbooks — Plural form of bankbook.
- banknotes — Plural form of banknote.
- bankrolls — Plural form of bankroll.
- bankstown — a city in SE Australia, a suburb of Sydney.
- bar kokba — Simon, died a.d. 135, Hebrew leader of insurrection against the Romans a.d. 132–135.
- barkcloth — Cloth made from the inner bark of the paper mulberry or similar tree.
- barklouse — any of numerous insects of the order Psocoptera that live on the bark of trees and other plants.
- bartokian — characteristic of the music of Béla Bartók: driving, percussive, Bartokian rhythm.
- basestock — Refined petroleum oil with no additives.
- beckoning — a nod, gesture, etc., that signals, directs, summons, indicates agreement, or the like.
- bee block — bee2 (def 1).
- bell book — a book in which all orders affecting the main engines of a ship are recorded.
- betsiboka — a river in central Madagascar, flowing NW to the Mozambique Channel. About 200 miles (320 km) long.
- bialystok — a city in E Poland.
- białystok — a city in E Poland: belonged to Prussia (1795–1807) and to Russia (1807–1919). Pop: 315 000 (2005 est)
- bick-iron — the tapered end of an anvil.
- billycock — any of several round-crowned brimmed hats of felt, such as the bowler
- biomarker — a distinct biochemical, genetic, or molecular characteristic or substance that is an indicator of a particular biological condition or process: a blood test to measure protein biomarkers for cancer.
- black box — A black box is an electronic device in an aircraft which records information about its flights. Black boxes are often used to provide evidence about accidents.
- black cow — Midwestern U.S. a root beer float containing vanilla ice cream.
- black dog — depression or melancholy
- black fog — (in Cape Cod, Mass.) a dense fog.
- black fox — a red fox in a color phase in which its fur is mostly black.
- black oak — any of various North American oaks (esp. Quercus velutina) with dark bark or foliage
- black out — If you black out, you lose consciousness for a short time.
- black rod — (in Britain) an officer of the House of Lords and of the Order of the Garter, whose main duty is summoning the Commons at the opening and proroguing of Parliament
- black rot — any of various plant diseases of fruits and vegetables, producing blackening, rotting, and shrivelling and caused by bacteria (including Xanthomonas campestris) and fungi (such as Physalospora malorum)
- blackbody — a hypothetical body that would be capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it
- blackcock — the male of the black grouse
- blackfoot — a member of a group of Native American peoples formerly living in the northwestern Plains
- blackmore — R(ichard) D(oddridge). 1825–1900, English novelist; author of Lorna Doone (1869)
- blackpoll — a North American warbler, Dendroica striata, the male of which has a black-and-white head
- blackpool — a town and resort in NW England, in Blackpool unitary authority, Lancashire on the Irish Sea: famous for its tower, 158 m (518 ft) high, and its illuminations. Pop: 142 283 (2001)
- blacktown — a city in New South Wales, SE Australia, near Sydney.
- blackwood — a tall Australian acacia tree, A. melanoxylon, having small clusters of flowers and curved pods and yielding highly valued black timber
- blackwork — embroidery done with black, usually silk, thread on white fabric, especially linen.
- bladework — skilful use of a blade, esp with reference to rowing
- blank out — If you blank out a particular feeling or thought, you do not allow yourself to experience that feeling or to have that thought.
- blankbook — a book containing blank pages, as a notebook or sketchbook.
- block off — When you block off a door, window, or passage, you put something across it so that nothing can pass through it.
- block out — If someone blocks out a thought, they try not to think about it.
- block tin — pure tin, esp when cast into ingots
- blockable — able to be blocked or prevented
- blockaded — the isolating, closing off, or surrounding of a place, as a port, harbor, or city, by hostile ships or troops to prevent entrance or exit.