12-letter words containing b, a, n, k, r
- broken arrow — a town in NE Oklahoma.
- broken heart — If you say that someone has a broken heart, you mean that they are very sad, for example because a love affair has ended unhappily.
- broken water — a patch of water whose surface is rippled or choppy, usually surrounded by relatively calm water.
- brooks range — a mountain range in N Alaska. Highest peak: Mount Isto, 2761 m (9058 ft)
- brown canker — a fungous disease of roses, characterized by leaf and flower lesions, stem cankers surrounded by a reddish-purple border, and dieback.
- brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
- burkina faso — an inland republic in W Africa: dominated by Mossi kingdoms (10th–19th centuries); French protectorate established in 1896; became an independent republic in 1960; consists mainly of a flat savanna plateau. Official language: French; Mossi and other African languages also widely spoken. Religion: mostly animist, with a large Muslim minority. Currency: franc. Capital: Ouagadougou. Pop: 17 812 961 (2013 est). Area: 273 200 sq km (105 900 sq miles)
- cabinetmaker — A cabinetmaker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
- carbon black — a black finely divided form of amorphous carbon produced by incomplete combustion of natural gas or petroleum: used to reinforce rubber and in the manufacture of pigments and ink
- carrick bend — type of knot
- central bank — a national bank that does business mainly with a government and with other banks: it regulates the volume and cost of credit
- crackbrained — insane, idiotic, or crazy
- disembarking — Present participle of disembark.
- draw a blank — (of paper or other writing surface) having no marks; not written or printed on: a blank sheet of paper.
- drinkability — The state or property of being drinkable.
- fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
- georges bank — a bank extending generally NE from Nantucket: fishing grounds. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- grand kabuki — kabuki (def 2).
- 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.
- hearken back — to go back in thought or speech; revert; hark back
- iskander bey — Scanderbeg.
- jailbreaking — Present participle of jailbreak.
- jaw-breaking — Informal. a word that is hard to pronounce.
- jodrell bank — site of a radio astronomy observatory (Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories) in NE Cheshire, England, that operates a 250-foot (76-meter) radio telescope.
- k/t boundary — Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: the time zone comprising the end of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Tertiary periods
- kiteboarding — A sport in which participants ride a form of wakeboard or surfboard harnessed to a large kite which is controlled by the rider.
- krafft-ebing — Richard [rich-erd;; German rikh-ahrt] /ˈrɪtʃ ərd;; German ˈrɪx ɑrt/ (Show IPA), Baron von, 1840–1902, German neurologist and author of works on sexual pathology.
- lark bunting — a finch, Calamospiza melanocorys, of the western U.S., the male of which is black with a large, white patch on each wing.
- law-breaking — Law-breaking is any kind of illegal activity.
- lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
- mockingboard — (hardware) A sound and speech board for the Apple II computer, on sale in 1978. See also zxnrbl.
- monkey bread — the gourdlike fruit of the baobab, eaten by monkeys.
- new york bay — a bay of the Atlantic at the mouth of the Hudson, W of Long Island and E of Staten Island and New Jersey.
- nonbreakable — Not easily broken.
- pathbreaking — pertaining to blazing a trail or path.
- pattern book — collection of textile motifs or designs
- reading book — a book for people who are learning to read, to help them become accustomed to looking at and understanding written words
- reserve bank — one of the 12 principal banks of the U.S. Federal Reserve System.
- ribbon snake — either of two long-tailed garter snakes, Thamnophis proximus or T. sauritus, of eastern and central North America, having a brownish body and yellow or orange stripes.
- 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
- shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
- sikandarabad — Secunderabad.
- spring break — a vacation from school or college during the spring term, lasting about a week.
- stonebreaker — a person that breaks up stone
- stringy-bark — any of several eucalyptus trees having a fibrous bark
- underblanket — a blanket placed under a bottom sheet
- undertakable — able to be undertaken