13-letter words containing b, a, k, l
- black pudding — Black pudding is a thick sausage which has a black skin and is made from pork fat and pig's blood.
- black quarter — blackleg (def 1).
- black russian — a drink made from one part coffee liqueur and two parts vodka, served over ice.
- black section — (in Britain in the 1980s) an unofficial group within the Labour Party in any constituency that represented the interests of local Black people
- black skimmer — a black and white New World skimmer, Rynchops nigra, having a bill with a reddish-orange base.
- black studies — a program of studies in black history and culture offered by a school or college, often including Afro-American history and black literature.
- black tracker — an Aboriginal tracker working for the police
- black treacle — molasses
- black vulture — the Eurasian vulture, Aegypius monachus, of the family Accipitridae
- black-a-vised — having a dark complexion.
- black-and-tan — (of a dog) of a black color with tan markings above the eyes and on the muzzle, chest, legs, feet, and breech.
- black-bag job — surreptitious or illegal entry or activity by government agents seeking incriminating evidence.
- black-hearted — evil, malicious, or wicked
- blackjack oak — a small oak tree, Quercus marilandica, of the southeastern US, with blackish bark and fan-shaped leaves
- blacksmithing — the work of a blacksmith.
- bladder wrack — any of various brown algae (genera Ascophyllum and Fucus), having a flattened body and conspicuous air bladders
- blanket chest — a chest, with or without drawers, having a rectangular space under a lifting lid or top, used for storing blankets, bedding, or clothing.
- blanket sheet — a newspaper of larger than average size, common in the mid 19th century.
- blanketflower — a hardy flowering plant, Gaillardia aristata, that grows in the US
- block capital — a sans-serif letter with lines of uniform weight.
- block diagram — a diagram showing the interconnections between the parts of an industrial process
- block release — the release of industrial trainees from work for study at a college for several weeks
- blow a gasket — to burst out in anger
- blue grosbeak — a grosbeak, Guiraca caerulea, of the U.S., Mexico, and Central America, the male of which is blue with two rusty bars on each wing.
- boat neckline — a wide, high neckline that follows the curve of the collarbone and ends in points on the shoulder seams.
- book learning — knowledge gained from books rather than from direct personal experience
- book-learning — knowledge acquired by reading books, as distinguished from that obtained through observation and experience.
- bracket clock — a small clock designed to be placed on a bracket or shelf.
- breakableness — the quality of being breakable
- breaking ball — any pitch that breaks; specif., a curve or slider
- brook lamprey — a jawless fish, Lampetra planeri, native to the European part of the Atlantic Ocean and the northwest Mediterranean
- brooklyn park — city in SE Minn.: suburb of Minneapolis: pop. 67,000
- bucket ladder — a series of buckets that move in a continuous chain, used to dredge riverbeds, etc, or to excavate land
- bulkhead deck — the uppermost continuous deck in the hull of a vessel, forming watertight compartments with the main transverse bulkheads.
- cab rank rule — the rule that obliges barristers to take on any client in strict rotation
- calisaya bark — the bark of any of several tropical trees of the rubiaceous genus Cinchona, esp C. calisaya, from which quinine is extracted
- channel black — the soot of a natural gas flame, used in paints; fine carbon.
- chock-a-block — A place that is chock-a-block is very full of people, things, or vehicles.
- chub mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomber japonicus, of Atlantic and Pacific seas and parts of the Indian Ocean.
- clearing bank — The clearing banks are the main banks in Britain. Clearing banks use the central clearing house in London to deal with other banks.
- clothesbasket — a basket for holding and carrying laundry.
- constablewick — the area of land under the charge of a constable
- crayola books — (publication) A humorous and/or disparaging term for the rainbow series of National Computer Security Center (NCSC) computer security standards. See also Orange Book.
- cricket table — a three-legged table of the Jacobean period.
- curly bracket — a punctuation mark { }, also used as a symbol in maths
- cyberslacking — (informal) Use of the Internet during work hours for unrelated tasks.
- cyberstalkers — Plural form of cyberstalker.
- cyberstalking — Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet to contact someone or find out information about them in a way that is annoying or frightening.
- dabbling duck — any of numerous shallow-water ducks, especially of the genus Anas, that typically feed by upending and dabbling (contrasted with diving duck).
- double tackle — a pulley system using blocks having two grooved wheels.