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15-letter words containing a, k, e, r

  • a cracking pace — If you say that someone or something is moving at a cracking pace, you mean that they are moving very quickly.
  • airborne attack — an attack involving airborne troops
  • airmail sticker — a sticker that is put on airmail letters to make sure they are not sent by surface mail
  • alaska purchase — purchase of the territory of Alaska by the U.S. from Russia in 1867 for $7,200,000. Compare Seward's Folly.
  • alder buckthorn — a Eurasian rhamnaceous shrub, Frangula alnus, with small greenish flowers and black berry-like fruits
  • all mockered up — dressed up
  • amegakaryocytic — Characterized by a lack of megakaryocytes.
  • anne of denmark — 1574–1619, wife (from 1589) of James I of England and VI of Scotland
  • antilock brakes — brakes fitted to some road vehicles that prevent skidding and improve control by sensing and compensating for overbraking
  • apartment block — building: flats, apartments
  • apprentice work — work done when young and a novice
  • azerty keyboard — a common European version of typewriter keyboard layout with the characters a, z, e, r, t, and y positioned on the top row of alphabetic characters at the left side of the keyboard
  • back plastering — the introduction of partitions of lath and plaster between the inner and outer surfaces of a stud wall in order to improve the insulating properties of the wall.
  • back projection — a method of projecting pictures onto a translucent screen so that they are viewed from the opposite side, used esp in films to create the illusion that the actors in the foreground are moving
  • backseat driver — If you refer to a passenger in a car as a backseat driver, they annoy you because they constantly give you advice about how to drive.
  • backup software — (tool, software)   Software for doing a backup, often included as part of the operating system. Backup software should provide ways to specify what files get backed up and to where. It may include its own scheduling function to automate the procedure or, preferably, work with generic scheduling facilities. It may include facilities for managing the backup media (e.g. maintaining an index of tapes) and for restoring files from backups. Examples are Unix's dump command and Windows's ntbackup.
  • bad housekeeper — a person who is not an efficient and thrifty domestic manager
  • ballpark figure — approximate number
  • barn-door skate — an Atlantic skate, Raja laevis, that grows to a length of 4 feet (1.2 meters) or more.
  • barracks lawyer — a member of the armed forces who speaks or acts like an authority on military law, regulations, and the rights of service personnel.
  • berkeley castle — a castle in Gloucestershire: scene of the murder of Edward II in 1327
  • beside the mark — not striking the point aimed at
  • big black river — a river in N central Mississippi, flowing SW to the Mississippi River near Vicksburg. 330 miles (531 km) long.
  • big sandy creek — a river in central Colorado, flowing NE and SE to the Arkansas River near Lamar: site of the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre. 200 miles (322 km) long.
  • black horehound — a hairy unpleasant-smelling chiefly Mediterranean plant, Ballota nigra, having clusters of purple flowers: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
  • black marketeer — A black marketeer is someone who sells goods on the black market.
  • black operation — a covert and undocumented military operation
  • black raspberry — a plant, Rubus occidentalis, of E North America, that has black berry-like fruits
  • black sea bream — a sparid fish, Spondyliosoma cantharus, found in N Europe and the Mediterranean
  • black september — a Palestinian Terrorist group, responsible for the assassinations of Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games at Munich in 1972
  • black snakeroot — a tall bugbane, Cimicifuga racemosa, of the buttercup family, of eastern North America, having thin, tapering, toothed or deeply cut leaflets and branched clusters of small, white flowers.
  • black-marketeer — to sell articles in the black market.
  • blackberry bush — a bush on which blackberries grow
  • blackberry lily — an ornamental Chinese iridaceous plant, Belamcanda chinensis, that has red-spotted orange flowers and clusters of black seeds that resemble blackberries
  • blank cartridge — a cartridge containing powder but no bullet: used in battle practice or as a signal
  • blockade runner — a person, ship etc that tries to carry goods through a blockade
  • blockade-runner — a ship or person that passes through a blockade.
  • brackett series — a series of lines in the infrared spectrum of hydrogen.
  • brake parachute — a parachute attached to the rear of a vehicle and opened to assist braking
  • break and entry — breaking and entering.
  • break statement — (programming)   A statement in the C programming language that transfers control out of the innermost enclosing switch, while, do, or for statement. The statement also exists in languages derived from C, such as C++ and Java.
  • break the mould — If you say that someone breaks the mould, you mean that they do completely different things from what has been done before or from what is usually done.
  • break-in period — a period during which certain restrictions or moderation in operating should be followed, as the avoidance of high speed, rapid acceleration, or severe braking for a new automobile.
  • break-out group — a group of people who detach themselves from a larger group or meeting in order to hold separate discussions
  • breakbone fever — dengue
  • breakdown cover — insurance cover against breakdowns in a vehicle
  • breakeven chart — a graph measuring the value of an enterprise's revenue and costs against some index of its activity, such as percentage capacity. The intersection of the total revenue and total cost curves gives the breakeven point
  • breakeven point — a point at which the total revenue and total cost are equal
  • breakfast table — You refer to a table as the breakfast table when it is being used for breakfast.
  • breaking plough — a plough with a long shallow mouldboard for turning virgin land or sod land

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