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14-letter words containing b, a, n, k, e, r

  • pancake batter — batter made from eggs and flour and used to make thin flat cakes often served rolled and filled with a sweet or savoury mixture
  • pipeline break — (architecture)   (Or "pipeline stall") The delay caused on a processor using pipelines when a transfer of control is taken. Normally when a control-transfer instruction (a branch, conditional branch, call or trap) is taken, any following instructions which have been loaded into the processor's pipeline must be discarded or "flushed" and new instructions loaded from the branch destination. This introduces a delay before the processor can resume execution. "Delayed control-transfer" is a technique used to reduce this effect.
  • quarterbacking — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
  • re-embarkation — the act of boarding a ship or aircraft again
  • remarkableness — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
  • retail banking — banking for individual customers
  • russet burbank — a brown-skinned, oblong potato having a mealy flesh with high starch content.
  • screen blanker — screen saver
  • sergeant baker — a large brightly-coloured fish of the genus Latropiscis, found in temperate reef waters of Australasia
  • shooting brake — station wagon.
  • siberian husky — one of a Siberian breed of medium-size dogs having a thick, soft coat, raised originally as sled dogs.
  • strikebreaking — action directed at breaking up a strike of workers.
  • ten-acre block — a block of subdivided farming land, usually within commuting distance of a city, that provides a semirural way of life
  • to break ranks — If you say that a member of a group or organization breaks ranks, you mean that they disobey the instructions of their group or organization.
  • unforeknowable — not foreknowable
  • universal bank — A universal bank is a bank that offers both banking and stockbroking services to its clients.
  • wardrobe trunk — a large, upright trunk, usually with space on one side for hanging clothes and drawers or compartments on the other for small articles, shoes, etc.
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