15-letter words containing a, t, b, e, k
- eat like a bird — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
- elm bark beetle — the bark-boring beetle (Scolytus multistriatus) that feeds on the bark of elm trees and carries Dutch elm disease
- engagement book — couple
- false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
- garboard strake — the first strake on each side of a keel.
- globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
- great bear lake — a lake in NW Canada, in the Northwest Territories. 12,275 sq. mi. (31,792 sq. km).
- greenback party — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
- heartbreakingly — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
- heartbrokenness — The state or quality of being heartbroken.
- in the ballpark — a tract of land where ball games, especially baseball, are played.
- investment bank — a financial institution that deals chiefly in the underwriting of new securities.
- jack-in-the-box — a toy consisting of a box from which an enclosed figure springs up when the lid is opened.
- keep tabs on sb — If someone keeps tabs on you, they make sure that they always know where you are and what you are doing, often in order to control you.
- kitchen cabinet — a cupboard built into a kitchen or a chest of drawers for kitchen use, as for dishes and silverware.
- knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
- knight banneret — banneret1 (def 2).
- luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
- make a habit of — If you make a habit of doing something, you do it regularly or often.
- merchant banker — A merchant banker is someone who works for a merchant bank.
- mortgage broker — agent who matches house buyer with mortgage lender
- neck sweetbread — sweetbread (def 2).
- parachute brake — a parachute opened horizontally from the tail of an airplane upon landing, used as an aid in braking. Also called parabrake. Compare drogue parachute (def 2).
- pat on the back — to strike lightly or gently with something flat, as with a paddle or the palm of the hand, usually in order to flatten, smooth, or shape: to pat dough into flat pastry forms.
- pick up the tab — If you pick up the tab, you pay a bill on behalf of a group of people or provide the money that is needed for something.
- pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
- power breakfast — If business people have a power breakfast, they go to a restaurant early in the morning so that they can have a meeting while they eat breakfast.
- quarter blanket — a horse blanket, usually placed under a saddle or harness and extending to the horse's tail.
- qwerty keyboard — a keyboard having the arrangement of alphabetical and numerical keys found on the traditional typewriter
- rib-eye (steak) — a beefsteak cut from the rib section, with the bone removed
- runabout ticket — a rail ticket that allows unlimited travel within a specified area for a limited period of time (for example one day, a weekend, three days, etc)
- salisbury steak — ground beef, sometimes mixed with other foods, shaped like a hamburger patty and broiled or fried, often garnished or served with a sauce.
- see the back of — to be rid of
- shopping basket — a metal or plastic container with one or two handles, used to carry shopping in a shop
- spiral notebook — a notebook held together by a coil of wire passed through small holes punched at the back edge of the covers and individual pages
- straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
- strawberry mark — a small, reddish, slightly raised birthmark.
- take sb to task — If you take someone to task, you criticize them or tell them off because of something bad or wrong that they have done.
- tamarisk gerbil — gerbil (def 2).
- the black death — a form of bubonic plague pandemic in Europe and Asia during the 14th century, when it killed over 50 million people
- the black ferns — the women's international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
- the black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
- the black watch — (formerly) the Royal Highland Regiment in the British Army; (since 2006) an infantry battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland
- the tall blacks — the international basketball team of New Zealand
- thermal blanket — a specially warm blanket
- thomas a becket — Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.
- tidal benchmark — a benchmark used as a reference for tidal observations.
- trade paperback — a paperback book of a size similar to a typical hard-cover book, intended for sale in bookstores as distinguished from a cheaper and smaller paperback intended for sale on racks at drugstores, newsstands, etc.
- traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
- vegetable knife — a knife designed to cut up vegetables