12-letter words containing b, a, c, k, i
- bulk carrier — a ship that carries unpackaged cargo, usually consisting of a single dry commodity, such as coal or grain
- bushwhacking — to make one's way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc.
- cabinetmaker — A cabinetmaker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
- carrick bend — type of knot
- carrick bitt — either of a pair of strong posts used for supporting a windlass
- cavity block — a precast concrete block that contains a cavity or cavities
- clickability — (computing) The quality of being clickable, of causing a particular action when clicked.
- cocktail bar — a bar which serves cocktails
- combat knife — a large knife for military use
- cork cambium — a layer of meristematic cells in the cortex of the stems and roots of woody plants, the outside of which gives rise to cork cells and the inside to secondary cortical cells (phelloderm)
- crackbrained — insane, idiotic, or crazy
- cricket ball — the ball used to play cricket
- diamondbacks — Plural form of diamondback.
- drop a brick — a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
- 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.
- hack to bits — to damage severely
- in the black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- jackass brig — a two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on the foremast with a fore-and-aft mainsail; brigantine.
- kit-cat club — a club of Whig wits, painters, politicians, and men of letters, including Robert Walpole, John Vanbrugh, William Congreve, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Godfrey Kneller, that flourished in London between 1703 and 1720.
- kit-kat club — a club of Whig wits, painters, politicians, and men of letters, including Robert Walpole, John Vanbrugh, William Congreve, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Godfrey Kneller, that flourished in London between 1703 and 1720.
- make sb sick — disgust sb morally
- mockingboard — (hardware) A sound and speech board for the Apple II computer, on sale in 1978. See also zxnrbl.
- 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.
- piggybacking — on the back or shoulders: The little girl rode piggyback on her father.
- rickenbacker — Edward Vernon ("Eddie") 1890–1973, U.S. aviator and aviation executive.
- running back — an offensive back, as a halfback or fullback, whose principal role is advancing the ball by running with it on plays from scrimmage.
- salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
- scrapbooking — hobby: collaging
- spinal block — spinal anesthesia.
- stackability — capable of being stacked, especially easily: stackable chairs.
- stickability — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- trackability — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- 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)
- wildcat bank — a bank that issued notes without adequate security in the period before the establishment of the national banking system in 1864.
- wrecking bar — pinch bar.