12-letter words containing b, a, c, k, e
- combat knife — a large knife for military use
- come back to — If you come back to a topic or point, you talk about it again later.
- crackbrained — insane, idiotic, or crazy
- crackerberry — bunchberry.
- cricket ball — the ball used to play cricket
- culebra peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Culebra Range of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,069 feet (4288 meters).
- cyberattacks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cyberattack.
- cyberstalker — (Internet) A stalker who operates online.
- dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
- double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
- facebook.com — (web) One of the most popular social networking websites.
- featherbacks — Plural form of featherback.
- greenbackism — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
- hearken back — to go back in thought or speech; revert; hark back
- in the black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- kerb-crawler — a man who drives slowly looking to entice a prostitute into his car for sexual purposes
- 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.
- lamp bracket — a bracket for holding a lamp
- 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 ("]").
- lumberjacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
- make sb sick — disgust sb morally
- marcus baker — Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska, near Anchorage: highest peak in the Chugach Mountains. 13,176 feet (4016 meters).
- mental block — inability to recall
- 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.
- quarterbacks — Plural form of quarterback.
- rickenbacker — Edward Vernon ("Eddie") 1890–1973, U.S. aviator and aviation executive.
- rugby tackle — A rugby tackle is a way of making someone fall over by throwing your arms around their legs or hips.
- saddle block — a type of spinal anaesthesia producing sensory loss in the buttocks, inner sides of the thighs, and perineum
- straddleback — astride, on horseback
- swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
- unreckonable — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- vacuum brake — a brake system, used on British and many overseas railways, in which the brake is held off by a vacuum on one side of the brake-operating cylinder. If the vacuum is destroyed by controlled leakage of air or a disruptive emergency, the brake is applied. It is now largely superseded by the Westinghouse brake system
- van riebeeck — Jan, full name Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck. 1619–77, Dutch colonial administrator. Founder of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope (1652)
- watteau back — a loose, full back of a woman's gown, formed by wide box pleats hanging from a high shoulder yoke and extending to the hem in an unbroken line.
- wrecking bar — pinch bar.