12-letter words containing a, k, e, b
- kinesophobia — Fear of movement.
- kite balloon — a barrage balloon intended for use in information-gathering and observation; it is usually tethered to the ground and has lobes to keep it stable and pointing into the wind
- kiteboarding — A sport in which participants ride a form of wakeboard or surfboard harnessed to a large kite which is controlled by the rider.
- know by name — to have heard of without having met
- knowableness — the quality of being knowable
- knowledgable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
- 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.
- krafft-ebing — Richard [rich-erd;; German rikh-ahrt] /ˈrɪtʃ ərd;; German ˈrɪx ɑrt/ (Show IPA), Baron von, 1840–1902, German neurologist and author of works on sexual pathology.
- labor market — the available supply of labor considered with reference to the demand for it.
- lake balaton — a large shallow lake in W Hungary. Area: 689 sq km (266 sq miles)
- lambeth walk — a spirited ballroom dance popular, especially in England, in the late 1930s.
- lamp bracket — a bracket for holding a lamp
- law-breaking — Law-breaking is any kind of illegal activity.
- lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
- 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 ("]").
- likeableness — Likeability.
- linen basket — a basket or container with a lid in which you put your dirty clothes before washing them
- longboat key — a narrow barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico, SW of Florida, sheltering Sarasota Bay: sports fishing.
- lumberjacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
- make believe — the style or manner in which something is made; form; build.
- make sb sick — disgust sb morally
- make the bed — rearrange the bedsheets
- make-believe — pretense, especially of an innocent or playful kind; feigning; sham: the make-believe of children playing.
- make-up base — a primer of make-up applied to the face in order to prepare it for the main layer of make-up
- marcus baker — Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska, near Anchorage: highest peak in the Chugach Mountains. 13,176 feet (4016 meters).
- market abuse — (in Britain) a statutory offence which covers insider trading and stock market manipulation
- marketbasket — a selected list of goods and services, usually food and household items regarded as typifying consumer spending over a given time, used to measure the cost of living
- master baker — a baker who is fully qualified to practise his trade and to train others in it
- mental block — inability to recall
- monkey bread — the gourdlike fruit of the baobab, eaten by monkeys.
- moses basket — wicker bed for a baby
- mount kazbek — an extinct volcano in N Georgia in the central Caucasus Mountains. Height: 5047 m (16 558 ft)
- mountebanked — Simple past tense and past participle of mountebank.
- new york bay — a bay of the Atlantic at the mouth of the Hudson, W of Long Island and E of Staten Island and New Jersey.
- nonbreakable — Not easily broken.
- pathbreaking — pertaining to blazing a trail or path.
- pattern book — collection of textile motifs or designs
- payback time — Payback time is when someone has to take the consequences of what they have done in the past. You can use this expression to talk about good or bad consequences.
- peacock blue — a lustrous greenish blue, as of certain peacock feathers.
- pereira bark — the bark of any of several South American trees belonging to the genus Geissospermum, of the dogbane family, especially that of G. vellosii, used in Brazil to allay fever.
- plunket baby — a baby brought up in infancy under the dietary recommendations of the Plunket Society
- prebreakfast — occurring before breakfast, of or pertaining to the period before breakfast
- quarterbacks — Plural form of quarterback.
- reading book — a book for people who are learning to read, to help them become accustomed to looking at and understanding written words
- reserve bank — one of the 12 principal banks of the U.S. Federal Reserve System.
- ribbon snake — either of two long-tailed garter snakes, Thamnophis proximus or T. sauritus, of eastern and central North America, having a brownish body and yellow or orange stripes.
- ribeye steak — a large beefsteak cut from the outer, or eye, side of the ribs.