15-letter words containing b, a, k, e, r, l
- never look back — to become increasingly successful
- nickel carbonyl — a colorless or yellow, volatile, water-insoluble, poisonous, flammable liquid, Ni(CO) 4 , obtained by the reaction of nickel and carbon monoxide, and used for nickel-plating.
- paperbark maple — a shrub or tree, Acer griseum, native to China, cultivated for its attractive papery brownish bark.
- plumber's snake — snake (def 3a).
- quadruple bucky — Obsolete. 1. On an MIT space-cadet keyboard, use of all four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a character key. 2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in raw mode, use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are the control and meta keys on *both* sides of the keyboard. This was very difficult to do! One accepted technique was to press the left-control and left-meta keys with your left hand, the right-control and right-meta keys with your right hand, and the fifth key with your nose. Quadruple-bucky combinations were very seldom used in practice, because when one invented a new command one usually assigned it to some character that was easier to type. If you want to imply that a program has ridiculously many commands or features, you can say something like: "Oh, the command that makes it spin the tapes while whistling Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is quadruple-bucky-cokebottle." See double bucky, bucky bits, cokebottle.
- quarter blanket — a horse blanket, usually placed under a saddle or harness and extending to the horse's tail.
- 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.
- sand-lime brick — a hard brick composed of silica sand and a lime of high calcium content, molded under high pressure and baked.
- sink a borehole — To sink a borehole means to drill a deep hole in the ground.
- 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
- tamarisk gerbil — gerbil (def 2).
- the black ferns — the women's international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
- thermal blanket — a specially warm blanket
- tidal benchmark — a benchmark used as a reference for tidal observations.
- traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
- unskilled labor — work that requires practically no training or experience for its adequate or competent performance.
- white bear lake — a city in E Minnesota: summer resort.