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12-letter words containing a, b, c, k

  • carbon black — a black finely divided form of amorphous carbon produced by incomplete combustion of natural gas or petroleum: used to reinforce rubber and in the manufacture of pigments and ink
  • career break — If someone takes a career break, they stop working in their particular profession for a period of time, with the intention of returning to it later.
  • carrick bend — type of knot
  • carrick bitt — either of a pair of strong posts used for supporting a windlass
  • cavity block — a precast concrete block that contains a cavity or cavities
  • central bank — a national bank that does business mainly with a government and with other banks: it regulates the volume and cost of credit
  • channel back — an upholstered chair or sofa back having deep vertical grooves.
  • chapter book — a children's book, typically a work of fiction, of moderate length and complexity, divided into chapters and intended for readers approximately seven to ten years old
  • checkerboard — A checkerboard is a square board with 64 black and white squares that is used for playing checkers or chess.
  • clickability — (computing) The quality of being clickable, of causing a particular action when clicked.
  • cocktail bar — a bar which serves cocktails
  • coffee break — A coffee break is a short period of time, usually in the morning or afternoon, when you stop working and have a cup of coffee.
  • combat knife — a large knife for military use
  • come back to — If you come back to a topic or point, you talk about it again later.
  • cork cambium — a layer of meristematic cells in the cortex of the stems and roots of woody plants, the outside of which gives rise to cork cells and the inside to secondary cortical cells (phelloderm)
  • crack a book — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
  • crackbrained — insane, idiotic, or crazy
  • crackerberry — bunchberry.
  • cricket ball — the ball used to play cricket
  • culebra peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Culebra Range of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,069 feet (4288 meters).
  • cyberattacks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cyberattack.
  • cyberstalker — (Internet) A stalker who operates online.
  • dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
  • diamondbacks — Plural form of diamondback.
  • double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
  • drop a brick — a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
  • facebook.com — (web)   One of the most popular social networking websites.
  • fall back on — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
  • featherbacks — Plural form of featherback.
  • futtock band — a metal band around a lower mast somewhat below the top, for holding the lower ends of a futtock shroud.
  • gondola back — a chair or couch back curving forward and downward to form arms.
  • greenbackism — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
  • hack to bits — to damage severely
  • hark back to — recall: earlier era
  • hearken back — to go back in thought or speech; revert; hark back
  • in the black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
  • jackass bark — a barkentine square-rigged on the mainmast above a gaff mainsail.
  • jackass brig — a two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on the foremast with a fore-and-aft mainsail; brigantine.
  • kerb-crawler — a man who drives slowly looking to entice a prostitute into his car for sexual purposes
  • kit-cat club — a club of Whig wits, painters, politicians, and men of letters, including Robert Walpole, John Vanbrugh, William Congreve, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Godfrey Kneller, that flourished in London between 1703 and 1720.
  • kit-kat club — a club of Whig wits, painters, politicians, and men of letters, including Robert Walpole, John Vanbrugh, William Congreve, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Godfrey Kneller, that flourished in London between 1703 and 1720.
  • knuckle ball — a slow pitch that moves erratically toward home plate, usually delivered by holding the ball between the thumb and the knuckles of the first joints of the first two or three fingers.
  • knuckleballs — Plural form of knuckleball.
  • lamp bracket — a bracket for holding a lamp
  • leader block — Nautical. lead block.
  • leatherbacks — Plural form of leatherback.
  • left bracket — (character)   "[". ASCII character 91. Common: left square bracket; ITU-T: opening bracket; bracket. Rare: square; INTERCAL: U turn. Paired with right bracket ("]").
  • lumberjacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
  • make sb sick — disgust sb morally
  • marcus baker — Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska, near Anchorage: highest peak in the Chugach Mountains. 13,176 feet (4016 meters).
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