12-letter words containing a, b, c, k
- backtracking — to return over the same course or route.
- backup light — Backup lights are the white lights on the back of a vehicle that shine when the vehicle moves backward.
- backwardness — toward the back or rear.
- backwoodsman — Backwoodsmen are people, especially politicians, who like the old ways of doing things, or who are involved in an organization at a local level.
- backwoodsmen — Plural form of backwoodsman.
- baklava code — (humour, programming) Code with too many layers. Also known as Lasagne Code.
- banbury cake — a cake consisting of a pastry base filled with currants, raisins, candied peel, and sugar, with a crisscross pattern on the top
- bank account — A bank account is an arrangement with a bank which allows you to keep your money in the bank and to take some out when you need it.
- bank balance — Your bank balance is the amount of money that you have in your bank account at a particular time.
- bank charges — penalties charged by a bank to a customer, for example when the customer's account is overdrawn or if a cheque is not honoured
- bankruptcies — Plural form of bankruptcy.
- barbary duck — the flesh of a Muscovy duck used as food
- bare-knuckle — without boxing gloves
- barrack life — the experiences, activities, etc that are characteristic of a soldier's time spent dwelling in a barracks
- barrack room — a room inside a military barracks, esp one in which soldiers sleep
- barracks bag — a large bag containing a soldier's personal belongings and equipment
- basket catch — a catch made with open glove with the palm up and the wrist kept close to and in front of the body.
- basket chair — a chair made of wickerwork; a wicker chair
- battle creek — a city in S Michigan.
- beaten track — well-trodden path or route
- beggar-ticks — any of various plants, such as the bur marigold and tick trefoil, having fruits or seeds that cling to clothing, fur, etc
- benchmarking — In business, benchmarking is a process in which a company compares its products and methods with those of the most successful companies in its field, in order to try to improve its own performance.
- beta blocker — A beta blocker is a drug which is used to treat people who have high blood pressure or heart problems.
- beta-blocker — any of various substances that interfere with the action of the beta receptors: used primarily to reduce the heart rate or force in the prevention, management, or treatment of angina, hypertension, or arrythmias.
- bicycle rack — a metal frame for securing bicycles when they are not in use
- biker jacket — a short, close-fitting leather jacket with zips and studs, often worn by motorcyclists
- bismarck sea — an arm of the Pacific Ocean north of New Britain and north-east of New Guinea
- black acacia — a tall Australian tree, Acacia melanoxylon, of the legume family, having cream-yellow flowers and yielding a very light wood.
- black africa — Black Africa is the part of Africa to the south of the Sahara Desert.
- black balsam — Peru balsam.
- black beauty — a Biphetamine capsule.
- black beetle — another name for the oriental cockroach
- black bottom — a dance of the late 1920s that originated in America, involving a sinuous rotation of the hips
- black bryony — a climbing herbaceous Eurasian plant, Tamus communis, having small greenish flowers and poisonous red berries: family Dioscoreaceae
- black butter — beurre noir.
- black canyon — a canyon of the Colorado River between Arizona and Nevada: site of Boulder Dam.
- black cherry — a tree of the species Prunus serotina, having a small fleshy rounded edible fruit containing a hard stone
- black coffee — coffee with no milk, milk substitute, or cream added
- black cohosh — a plant of the ranunculaceous family, Cimicifuga racemosa, which is used as a natural alternative to hormone replacement therapy
- black comedy — a comedy dealing with an unpleasant situation in a pessimistic or macabre manner
- black copper — a regulus of 95-percent-pure copper, produced in a blast furnace by smelting oxidized copper ores.
- black cosmos — a garden plant, Cosmos diversifolius, of Mexico, having small, dahlialike tubers and solitary flower heads with red disk flowers and velvety, dark-red or purplish ray flowers.
- black forest — wooded mountain region in SW Germany
- black friday — the day after the US Thanksgiving Day in late November, regarded as the start of the Christmas shopping season
- black grouse — a large N European grouse, Lyrurus tetrix, the male of which has a bluish-black plumage and lyre-shaped tail
- black heroin — a very potent and addictive form of heroin that is dark-colored.
- black knight — a person or firm that makes an unwelcome takeover bid for a company
- black letter — a kind of heavy-faced, ornamental printing type
- black liquor — (in making wood pulp for paper) the liquor that remains after digestion.
- black locust — Also called false acacia, yellow locust. a North American tree, Robinia pseudoacacia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves and clusters of fragrant white flowers.