13-letter words containing a, b, k
- feedback form — A feedback form is a paper with questions on it and spaces marked where you should write the answers. It asks a hotel guest if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
- feedback loop — the path by which some of the output of a circuit, system, or device is returned to the input.
- finback whale — rorqual
- fishing banks — a place where fish are abundant, as off Newfoundland
- flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
- for sb's sake — When you do something for someone's sake, you do it in order to help them or make them happy.
- garbage truck — lorry that collects refuse
- groundbreaker — a person who is an originator, innovator, or pioneer in a particular activity.
- hawk-s--beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- heartbreakers — Plural form of heartbreaker.
- heartbreaking — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
- heartbrokenly — In a heartbroken manner.
- horse-breaker — a person who breaks in a horse
- housebreakers — Plural form of housebreaker.
- housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- hub-and-spoke — of or designating a system of air transportation by which local flights carry passengers to one major regional airport where they can board long-distance or other local flights for their final destinations.
- humboldt peak — a mountain in S Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo range. 14,064 feet (4290 meters).
- internet bank — a bank that allows customers to conduct business online, esp exclusively so
- jack robinson — Bill ("Bojangles") 1878–1949, U.S. tap dancer.
- jebel toubkal — a mountain in SW Morocco: highest peak in the Atlas Mountains. 13,671 feet (4167 meters).
- jesuit's bark — cinchona (def 2).
- kalambo falls — an archaeological site at the southeastern end of Lake Tanganyika, on the Zambia-Tanzania border, that has yielded one of the longest continuous cultural sequences in sub-Saharan Africa, beginning more than 100,000 years b.p. and characterized in the earliest levels by evidence of fire use and some simple wooden implements of Lower Paleolithic, or Acheulean, humans.
- keep on about — If you say that someone keeps on about something, you mean that they keep talking about it in a boring way.
- kerb-crawling — Kerb-crawling is the activity of driving slowly along the side of a road in order to find and hire a prostitute.
- khapra beetle — a tiny cosmopolitan beetle, Trogoderma granarium, that is a pest of stored grain and other dried organic matter.
- kiss sb's ass — Saying that someone can kiss your ass is a very rude way of expressing anger or disagreement.
- know by heart — have memorized
- knowledgeable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
- knowledgeably — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
- knowledgebase — Alternative spelling of knowledge base.
- knuckleballer — a pitcher who specializes in throwing knuckle balls.
- kota kinabalu — a state in Malaysia, on the N tip of Borneo: formerly a British crown colony. 29,347 sq. mi. (76,008 sq. km). Capital: Kota Kinabalu.
- kuskokwim bay — an inlet of the Bering Sea in Alaska. Length: about 160 km (100 miles)
- labour market — When you talk about the labour market, you are referring to all the people who are able to work and want jobs in a country or area, in relation to the number of jobs there are available in that country or area.
- labrador duck — an extinct sea duck, Camptorhynchus labradorius, of northern North America, having black and white plumage.
- lake balkhash — a salt lake in SE Kazakhstan: fed by the Ili River. Area: about 18 000 sq km (7000 sq miles)
- lake manitoba — a lake in W Canada, in S Manitoba: fed by the outflow from Lake Winnipegosis; drains into Lake Winnipeg. Area: 4706 sq km (1817 sq miles)
- leading block — lead block.
- lumber jacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
- lumberjackets — Plural form of lumberjacket.
- mackinaw boat — a flat-bottomed boat with sharp prow and square stern, propelled by oars and sometimes sails, formerly widely used on the upper Great Lakes.
- make no bones — If you make no bones about something, you talk openly about it, rather than trying to keep it a secret.
- make or break — either completely successful or utterly disastrous: a make-or-break marketing policy.
- make sb's day — If something makes your day, it makes you feel very happy.
- make-or-break — either completely successful or utterly disastrous: a make-or-break marketing policy.
- market basket — a basket or cart for groceries.
- marketability — readily salable.
- merchant bank — a private banking firm engaged chiefly in investing in new issues of securities and in accepting bills of exchange in foreign trade.
- middlebreaker — lister1 (def 1).
- mountain bike — dirt bike, off-road cycle