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11-letter words containing b, e, a, k

  • chip basket — a wire basket for holding potato chips, etc, while frying in deep fat
  • clark gable — (William) Clark, 1901–60, U.S. film actor.
  • cliff brake — any of several common ferns of the genus Pellaea, usually growing in pockets of thin soil on rocks.
  • cockleboats — Plural form of cockleboat.
  • codebreaker — A person who solves a code or codes.
  • cookie bear — cookie monster
  • cornerbacks — Plural form of cornerback.
  • cricket bat — a specially shaped, carved wooden bat used to play cricket
  • crookbacked — Hunchbacked.
  • curb market — curb (def 5).
  • cyberattack — an attempt to damage or disrupt a computer system, or obtain information stored on a computer system, by means of hacking
  • dark nebula — a type of nebula that is observed by its blocking of radiation from other sources
  • dealbreaker — A dealbreaker is an issue that prevents people from reaching an agreement.
  • debarkation — Disembarkation.
  • diefenbakerJohn George, 1895–1979, prime minister of Canada 1957–63.
  • disembarked — Simple past tense and past participle of disembark.
  • disembarkee — One who disembarks from a vessel such as an airplane or ship.
  • dislikeable — Alternative spelling of dislikable.
  • dogger bank — a shoal in the North Sea, between N England and Denmark: fishing grounds; naval battle 1915.
  • doner kebab — a fast-food dish comprising grilled meat and salad served in pitta bread with chilli sauce
  • double back — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
  • double ikat — a method of printing woven fabric by tie-dyeing the warp yarns (warp ikat) the weft yarns (weft ikat) or both (double ikat) before weaving.
  • double take — a rapid or surprised second look, either literal or figurative, at a person or situation whose significance had not been completely grasped at first: His friends did a double take when they saw how much weight he had lost.
  • double talk — speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.
  • double-bank — to have two rowers pull (each of a number of oars).
  • double-park — If someone double-parks their car or their car double-parks, they park in a road by the side of another parked car.
  • double-take — a rapid or surprised second look, either literal or figurative, at a person or situation whose significance had not been completely grasped at first: His friends did a double take when they saw how much weight he had lost.
  • double-talk — speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.
  • doublespeak — evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse.
  • drakensberg — a mountain range in the E Republic of South Africa: highest peak, 10,988 feet (3350 meters).
  • embankments — Plural form of embankment.
  • embarkation — The act of embarking.
  • embarkments — Plural form of embarkment.
  • facebookers — Plural form of facebooker.
  • farkleberry — a shrub or small tree, Vaccinium arboreum, of the heath family, native to the southern U.S., bearing small, waxy, white flowers and black, many-seeded berries.
  • featherback — any freshwater fish of the family Notopteridae, of Asia and western Africa, having a small, feathery dorsal fin and a very long anal fin extending from close behind the head to the tip of the tail.
  • fiddle back — a chair back having a solid splat similar in form to that of a fiddle.
  • fiddle-back — a chair back having a solid splat similar in form to that of a fiddle.
  • foam-backed — having a backing made of foam rubber
  • frank dobie — (James) Frank, 1888–1964, U.S. folklorist, educator, and author.
  • gamebreaker — a person who makes a significant contribution to a team's sporting success
  • gas bracket — a metal pipe projecting from the wall of an apartment, used to support gas lamps and to supply them with gas
  • get back at — take revenge on
  • get back to — resume
  • gob-smacked — utterly astounded; astonished.
  • hackberries — Plural form of hackberry.
  • half-broken — past participle of break.
  • halterbreak — to get (an animal) used to wearing a halter
  • hamba kahle — goodbye, farewell (esp to the dead)
  • hand-basket — a small basket with a handle for carrying by hand.
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