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

  • breakfast club — a service that provides a breakfast for children who arrive early at school
  • breakfast food — any prepared cereal for breakfast
  • breakfast room — a room set aside for serving and eating breakfast, esp in a hotel or guesthouse
  • breakfast show — a radio or television broadcast that airs around breakfast time
  • breakfast time — Breakfast time is the period of the morning when most people have their breakfast.
  • breaking point — If something or someone has reached breaking point, they have so many problems or difficulties that they can no longer cope with them, and may soon collapse or be unable to continue.
  • breathtakingly — thrillingly beautiful, remarkable, astonishing, exciting, or the like: a breathtaking performance.
  • broken-hearted — Someone who is broken-hearted is very sad and upset because they have had a serious disappointment.
  • bucket brigade — a line of persons passing buckets of water along in trying to put out a fire
  • buyer's market — When there is a buyer's market for a particular product, there are more of the products for sale than there are people who want to buy them, so buyers have a lot of choice and can make prices come down.
  • buyers' market — a market in which goods and services are plentiful and prices relatively low.
  • cable trunking — Cable trunking is an enclosure usually with a rectangular cross section, and with one removable or hinged side, that is used to protect cables and provide space for other electrical equipment.
  • carbonate rock — Carbonate rock is a sedimentary rock which is composed mainly of calcium carbonate (CaCO₃).
  • chartered bank — a privately owned bank that has been incorporated by Parliament to operate in the commercial banking system
  • chicken breast — pigeon breast
  • cracker bonbon — a thin, crisp biscuit.
  • cracker-barrel — rural; rustic; homespun
  • disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
  • double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
  • double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
  • drinks cabinet — a cocktail cabinet
  • freeboard deck — (on a cargo vessel) the uppermost deck officially considered to be watertight: used as the level from which the Plimsoll marks are measured.
  • greek alphabet — the alphabetical script derived from a Semitic alphabet by way of the Phoenicians, used from about the 8th century b.c. for the writing of Greek, and forming the basis of many other scripts, including Latin and Cyrillic. The letters of the Greek alphabet are: alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu1 , xi, omicron, pi1 , rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi1 , psi1 , omega.
  • groundbreaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
  • handbrake turn — a turn sharply reversing the direction of a vehicle by speedily applying the handbrake while turning the steering wheel
  • 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.
  • income bracket — a group or category of people whose income falls within defined upper and lower levels
  • interbank rate — The interbank rate is the interest rate that banks charge each other.
  • interblock gap — the area or space separating consecutive blocks of data or consecutive physical records on an external storage medium.
  • khirbet qumran — an archaeological site in W Jordan, near the NW coast of the Dead Sea: Dead Sea Scrolls found here 1947.
  • lake maracaibo — a lake in NW Venezuela, linked with the Gulf of Venezuela by a dredged channel: centre of the Venezuelan and South American oil industry. Area: about 13 000 sq km (500 sq miles)
  • laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
  • library ticket — a ticket admitting a person access to a library, esp a reference library
  • make a bargain — to agree on terms
  • make-and-break — noting or pertaining to a device, operated by an electric current, for automatically opening or closing a circuit once it has been closed or opened by a mechanical springlike device, as in a doorbell.
  • marketableness — The state or quality of being marketable.
  • megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
  • paddock-basher — a vehicle suited to driving on rough terrain
  • 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
  • paperback book — a book with covers made of flexible card, sold relatively cheaply
  • payback period — the period in which money owed, debts, etc, have to be paid back
  • pedal keyboard — pedal (def 3a).
  • pembroke table — a drop-leaf table with fly rails and with a drawer at one end or each end of the skirt.
  • 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.
  • polar outbreak — a vigorous thrust of cold, polar air across temperate regions.
  • post-breakfast — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
  • purbeck marble — a fossil-rich limestone that takes a high polish: used for building, etc
  • 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
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