15-letter words containing b, a, c, k, t
- luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
- merchant banker — A merchant banker is someone who works for a merchant bank.
- mount blackburn — a mountain in SE Alaska, the highest peak in the Wrangell Mountains. Height: 5037 m (16 523 ft)
- neck sweetbread — sweetbread (def 2).
- not a dickybird — not a word; nothing
- 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.
- pickaback plant — piggyback plant.
- piggyback plant — a plant, Tolmiea menziesii, of the saxifrage family, native to western North America, that produces new plants at the base of its broad, hairy leaves and that is popular as a houseplant.
- pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
- 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)
- rusty blackbird — a North American blackbird, Euphagus carolinus, the male of which has plumage that is uniformly bluish-black in the spring and rusty-edged in the fall.
- see the back of — to be rid of
- shock probation — the release on probation of a criminal after brief imprisonment
- starting blocks — the rigid blocks adjustable at an angle and mounted on a track against which a runner's shoes are placed to aid in starting
- straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
- 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
- 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.
- turkish tobacco — a strongly aromatic tobacco, grown chiefly in Turkey and Greece, used in cigarettes.