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13-letter words containing b, a, c, k, e

  • price bracket — a notional range of prices which consumers are prepared to pay for a good
  • quarterbacked — Simple past tense and past participle of quarterback.
  • right bracket — (character)   "]". ASCII character 93. Common names: right square bracket; ITU-T: closing bracket; unbracket. Rare: unsquare; INTERCAL: U turn back. Paired with left bracket.
  • rock barnacle — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
  • rock the boat — to move or sway to and fro or from side to side.
  • saddle-backed — having the back or upper surface curved like a saddle.
  • saleleaseback — leaseback.
  • sawbuck table — a table that has X -shaped legs.
  • sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
  • service break — an instance of a player winning a game against a server.
  • sketchability — the suitability for being sketched
  • skunk cabbage — a low, fetid, broad-leaved North American plant, Symplocarpus foetidus, of the arum family, having a brownish-purple and green mottled spathe surrounding a stout spadix, growing in moist ground.
  • smoke chamber — an enlarged area between the throat of a fireplace and the chimney flue.
  • space blanket — a plastic insulating body wrapping coated on one or both sides with aluminium foil which reflects back most of the body heat lost by radiation: carried by climbers, mountaineers, etc, for use in cases of exposure or exhaustion
  • spark chamber — a device for detecting elementary particles, consisting of a series of charged plates separated by a gas so that the passage of a charged particle causes sparking between adjacent plates.
  • streaky bacon — Streaky bacon is bacon which has stripes of fat between stripes of meat.
  • the backfield — the quarterback and running backs in a team
  • the new black — If you say that a particular colour is the new black, you mean that it has become fashionable.
  • thomas becket — Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.
  • throttle back — If you throttle back, or you throttle back the engine, when driving a motor vehicle or flying an aircraft, you make it go slower by reducing the quantity of fuel entering the engine.
  • wrecking ball — a heavy metal ball swung on a cable from a crane and used in demolition work.
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