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14-letter words containing a, b, r, o, k

  • absaroka range — a range in S Montana and NW Wyoming: part of the Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, 13,140 feet (4005 meters).
  • alektorophobia — The fear of chickens.
  • angostura bark — the bitter aromatic bark of certain South American rutaceous trees of the genus Cusparia or Galipea, formerly used medicinally to reduce fever
  • antilock brake — a brake fitted to some road vehicles that prevents skidding and improves control by sensing and compensating for overbraking
  • babbling brook — a cook
  • back and forth — If someone moves back and forth, they repeatedly move in one direction and then in the opposite direction.
  • back formation — the invention of a new word on the assumption that a familiar word is derived from it. The verbs edit and burgle were so created from editor and burglar
  • back o' bourke — in a remote or backward place
  • back of bourke — a remote area or place.
  • back to nature — If you want to get back to nature, you want to return to a simpler way of living.
  • back-and-forth — backward and forward; side to side; to and fro: a back-and-forth shuttling of buses to the stadium; the back-and-forth movement of a clock's pendulum.
  • back-formation — the analogical creation of one word from another word that appears to be a derived or inflected form of the first by dropping the apparent affix or by modification.
  • backside-front — backend-to.
  • backstrap loom — a simple horizontal loom, used especially in Central and South America, on which one of two beams holding the warp yarn is attached to a strap that passes across the weaver's back.
  • bamboo network — a network of close-knit Chinese entrepreneurs with large corporate empires in southeast Asia
  • banker's order — pay order, banker's cheque
  • barbara liskov — (person)   Professor Barbara Liskov was the first US woman to be awarded a PhD in computing, and her innovations can be found in every modern programming language. She currently (2009) heads the Programming Methodology Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Liskov's design innovations have, over the decades, made software more reliable and easier to maintain. She has invented two computer progamming languages: CLU, an object-orientated language, and Argus, a distributed programming language. Liskov's research forms the basis of modern programming languages such as Java, C# and C++. One of the biggest impacts of her work came from her contributions to the use of data abstraction, a method for organising complex programs. See Liskov substitution principle. In June 2009 she will receive the A. M. Turing Award.
  • barbour jacket — a hard-wearing waterproof waxed jacket
  • beard-stroking — deep thought
  • belaya tserkov — city in WC Ukraine: pop. 204,000
  • birdcage clock — lantern clock.
  • black root rot — any of several diseases of plants characterized by black or brown lesions on the root.
  • blanket-flower — any composite plant of the genus Gaillardia, having showy heads of yellow or red flowers.
  • block calendar — a calendar in the form of a block of sheets each printed with the date of one day
  • bokhara clover — white melilot.
  • brachypinakoid — the side parallel to the shorter horizontal axis in a crystal
  • braddock hills — a town in SE Pennsylvania.
  • bras d'or lake — an arm of the Atlantic Ocean in the center Cape Breton Island, in Nova Scotia, Canada. 360 sq. mi. (930 sq. km).
  • break of serve — the act or instance of breaking an opponent's service
  • break the mold — If you say that someone breaks the mold, you mean that they do completely different things from what has been done before or from what is usually done.
  • breakfast food — any prepared cereal for breakfast
  • breakfast room — a room set aside for serving and eating breakfast, esp in a hotel or guesthouse
  • breakfast show — a radio or television broadcast that airs around breakfast time
  • breaking point — If something or someone has reached breaking point, they have so many problems or difficulties that they can no longer cope with them, and may soon collapse or be unable to continue.
  • broken-hearted — Someone who is broken-hearted is very sad and upset because they have had a serious disappointment.
  • bulk transport — the transport of large quantities of goods or commodities in lorries, ships, or by rail
  • carbonate rock — Carbonate rock is a sedimentary rock which is composed mainly of calcium carbonate (CaCO₃).
  • cracker bonbon — a thin, crisp biscuit.
  • crow blackbird — any of several North American grackles, especially purple grackles of the genus Quiscalus.
  • disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
  • double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
  • double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
  • dumbarton oaks — an estate in the District of Columbia: site of conferences held to discuss proposals for creation of the United Nations, August–October, 1944.
  • 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.
  • garboard plank — the bottommost plank of a vessel's hull
  • groundbreaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
  • horseshoe back — a bow back having a slight outward splay at its bottom.
  • inboard brakes — Inboard brakes are brakes located close to the center of the vehicle rather than at the wheel hub.
  • income bracket — a group or category of people whose income falls within defined upper and lower levels

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