14-letter words containing a, b, c, k
- black bullhead — a common freshwater catfish, Ictalurus melas, of North America, considered by some to be a food delicacy.
- black diamonds — carbonado1 .
- black hawk war — a war fought in northern Illinois and present-day southern Wisconsin, 1831–32, in which U.S. regulars and militia with Indian allies defeated the Sauk and Fox Indians, led by Chief Black Hawk, attempting to recover lost hunting grounds.
- black mulberry — a small deciduous tree, Morus nigra, with small leaves, producing edible fruit
- black panthers — (in the US) a militant Black political party founded in 1965 to end the political dominance of White people
- black redstart — a small, Passerine bird, Phoenicurus ochruros, found in Central and S Europe
- black root rot — any of several diseases of plants characterized by black or brown lesions on the root.
- black sea bass — an American coastal percoid fish, Centropristes striatus, having an elongated body with a long spiny dorsal fin almost divided into two
- black selenium — an allotropic form of selenium occurring as a black, amorphous, water-insoluble, light-sensitive powder: used chiefly in photoelectric cells.
- black skipjack — a small spotted tuna, Euthynnus yaito, of Indo-Pacific seas
- black squirrel — a fox squirrel or gray squirrel in that color phase in which the fur is black.
- black-and-blue — (of the skin) discoloured, as from a bruise
- black-eyed pea — Black-eyed peas are beige seeds with black marks that are eaten as a vegetable. They are from a plant called the cowpea.
- black-on-black — concerning black people exclusively
- blacktip shark — a widely distributed sand shark, Charcharinus limbatus, having fins that appear to have been dipped in ink, inhabiting shallow waters of warm seas.
- blanket stitch — a strong reinforcing stitch for the edges of blankets and other thick material
- blanket-stitch — a basic sewing stitch in which widely spaced, interlocking loops, or purls, are formed, used for cutwork, as a decorative finish for edges, etc.
- bletchley park — the Buckinghamshire estate which was the centre of British code-breaking operations during World War II
- blister-packed — presented in a blister pack
- block calendar — a calendar in the form of a block of sheets each printed with the date of one day
- block capitals — Block capitals are simple capital letters that are not decorated in any way.
- block faulting — the process by which tensional forces in the earth's crust cause large bodies of rock to founder.
- block mountain — a mountain produced by faulting and the uplifting of large blocks of rock
- block sampling — the selection of a corpus for statistical literary analysis by random selection of a starting point and consideration of the continuous passage following it
- bokhara clover — white melilot.
- brachypinakoid — the side parallel to the shorter horizontal axis in a crystal
- bracket fungus — any saprotroph or parasitic fungus of the basidiomycetous family Polyporaceae, growing as a shelflike mass (bracket) from tree trunks and producing spores in vertical tubes in the bracket
- braddock hills — a town in SE Pennsylvania.
- brass knuckles — linked metal rings or a metal bar with holes for the fingers, worn for rough fighting
- breakfast club — a service that provides a breakfast for children who arrive early at school
- bucket brigade — a line of persons passing buckets of water along in trying to put out a fire
- buckwheat cake — a pancake made of buckwheat flour.
- buckwheat coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 5/16 to 9/16 inch (7.9 to 13.9 m).
- buckwheat note — shape note.
- cable trunking — Cable trunking is an enclosure usually with a rectangular cross section, and with one removable or hinged side, that is used to protect cables and provide space for other electrical equipment.
- carbonate rock — Carbonate rock is a sedimentary rock which is composed mainly of calcium carbonate (CaCO₃).
- casino banking — an approach to banking which risks losing investors' money in the quest for maximizing profits
- chartered bank — a privately owned bank that has been incorporated by Parliament to operate in the commercial banking system
- chesapeake bay — the largest inlet of the Atlantic in the coast of the US: bordered by Maryland and Virginia
- chicken breast — pigeon breast
- clothes basket — a basket for storing and transporting clothes that need washing, or have been washed
- cocktail table — a low table as for serving refreshments, esp. one in a living room
- cracker bonbon — a thin, crisp biscuit.
- cracker-barrel — rural; rustic; homespun
- crow blackbird — any of several North American grackles, especially purple grackles of the genus Quiscalus.
- custodian bank — A custodian bank is a bank that holds customer assets in safety.
- defensive back — a defender positioned off the line of scrimmage for the purpose of covering pass receivers and tackling runners who elude linemen and linebackers.
- drinks cabinet — a cocktail cabinet
- flat back four — a set of four fullbacks in line formation
- freeboard deck — (on a cargo vessel) the uppermost deck officially considered to be watertight: used as the level from which the Plimsoll marks are measured.