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14-letter words containing b, a, s, k, e

  • clothes basket — a basket for storing and transporting clothes that need washing, or have been washed
  • defensive back — a defender positioned off the line of scrimmage for the purpose of covering pass receivers and tackling runners who elude linemen and linebackers.
  • disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
  • drinks cabinet — a cocktail cabinet
  • get one's back — situated at or in the rear: at the back door; back fence.
  • hanging basket — suspended woven container for plants
  • horseshoe back — a bow back having a slight outward splay at its bottom.
  • inboard brakes — Inboard brakes are brakes located close to the center of the vehicle rather than at the wheel hub.
  • kabalega falls — rapids on the lower Victoria Nile, about 35 km (22 miles) east of Lake Albert, where the Nile drops 120 m (400 ft)
  • keep sb amused — If you keep someone amused, you find things to do which stop them getting bored.
  • king of beasts — the lion.
  • knowledge base — (artificial intelligence)   A collection of knowledge expressed using some formal knowledge representation language. A knowledge base forms part of a knowledge-based system (KBS).
  • kuznetsk basin — an industrial region in the S Russian Federation in Asia: coal fields.
  • lake athabaska — a lake in W Canada, in NW Saskatchewan and NE Alberta. Area: about 7770 sq km (3000 sq miles)
  • laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
  • leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
  • make a stab at — to make an attempt at
  • make one's bed — a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
  • marketableness — The state or quality of being marketable.
  • mashie niblick — a club with an iron head whose face has more slope than a mashie but less slope than a pitcher.
  • megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
  • paddock-basher — a vehicle suited to driving on rough terrain
  • peck's bad boy — the mischievous boy in a series of newspaper stories and collected volumes by the American newspaperman and humorist George Wilbur Peck (1840–1916).
  • post-breakfast — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
  • remarkableness — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
  • removable disk — removable hard disk
  • russet burbank — a brown-skinned, oblong potato having a mealy flesh with high starch content.
  • saddle blanket — a saddle-shaped pad, as of felt or sheepskin, placed beneath the saddle to prevent it from irritating the horse's skin.
  • sakha republic — an administrative division in E Russia, in NE Siberia on the Arctic Ocean: the coldest inhabited region of the world; it has rich mineral resources. Capital: Yakutsk. Pop: 948 100 (2002). Area: 3 103 200 sq km (1 197 760 sq miles)
  • salary bracket — a given range or bracket of salaries within which the amount of pay earned by someone falls
  • screen blanker — screen saver
  • sergeant baker — a large brightly-coloured fish of the genus Latropiscis, found in temperate reef waters of Australasia
  • sheepback rock — roche moutonnée.
  • shock absorber — a device for damping sudden and rapid motion, as the recoil of a spring-mounted object from shock.
  • 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.
  • skilled labour — labour or work that demands skill and which you usually have to be trained for, or the workers that provide this labour
  • skin and bones — a condition or state of extreme thinness, usually the result of malnutrition; emaciation: Anorexia had reduced her to skin and bones.
  • snowflake baby — a baby born following the transfer of a surplus embryo produced during the in-vitro fertilization of one woman to the womb of another woman who was not a cell donor
  • square bracket — bracket (def 3).
  • starch blocker — a substance ingested in the belief that it inhibits the body's ability to metabolize starch and thereby promotes weight loss: declared illegal in the U.S. by the FDA.
  • steamer basket — a gift basket of fruit, sweets, and the like, often including champagne, sent to a person departing on a trip, especially by ship.
  • stockbrokerage — a stockbroker's work or business
  • strike-breaker — A strike-breaker is a person who continues to work during a strike, or someone who takes over the work of a person who is on strike.
  • strikebreaking — action directed at breaking up a strike of workers.
  • take liberties — If you take liberties or take a liberty with someone or something, you act in a way that is too free and does not show enough respect.
  • take sb's life — If someone takes another person's life, they kill them. If someone takes their own life, they kill themselves.
  • the all blacks — the international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
  • the black caps — the international cricket team of New Zealand
  • the black isle — a peninsula in NE Scotland, in Highland council area, between the Cromarty and Moray Firths
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