12-letter words containing b, e, a, k
- brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
- buck private — a common soldier
- bucket about — (esp of a boat in a storm) to toss or shake violently
- bulk carrier — a ship that carries unpackaged cargo, usually consisting of a single dry commodity, such as coal or grain
- bushelbasket — a rounded basket with a capacity of one bushel
- by-a-whisker — whiskers, a beard.
- cabinetmaker — A cabinetmaker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
- caked breast — a painful hardening of one or more lobules of a lactating breast, caused by stagnation of milk in the secreting ducts and accumulation of blood in the expanded veins; stagnation mastitis.
- career break — If someone takes a career break, they stop working in their particular profession for a period of time, with the intention of returning to it later.
- 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
- channel back — an upholstered chair or sofa back having deep vertical grooves.
- chapter book — a children's book, typically a work of fiction, of moderate length and complexity, divided into chapters and intended for readers approximately seven to ten years old
- checkerboard — A checkerboard is a square board with 64 black and white squares that is used for playing checkers or chess.
- coffee break — A coffee break is a short period of time, usually in the morning or afternoon, when you stop working and have a cup of coffee.
- combat knife — a large knife for military use
- come back to — If you come back to a topic or point, you talk about it again later.
- crackbrained — insane, idiotic, or crazy
- crackerberry — bunchberry.
- cricket ball — the ball used to play cricket
- culebra peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Culebra Range of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,069 feet (4288 meters).
- cyberattacks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cyberattack.
- cyberstalker — (Internet) A stalker who operates online.
- dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
- disembarking — Present participle of disembark.
- double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
- duke of alba — Duke of, Alva, Fernando Alvarez de Toledo.
- facebook.com — (web) One of the most popular social networking websites.
- featherbacks — Plural form of featherback.
- fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
- fruit basket — a basket containing a variety of fruits sent as a gift
- geelvink bay — former (Dutch) name of Sarera Bay.
- georges bank — a bank extending generally NE from Nantucket: fishing grounds. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- 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.
- hawk's beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- hawk's-beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- hearken back — to go back in thought or speech; revert; hark back
- heartbreaker — a person, event, or thing causing heartbreak.
- home banking — a system whereby a person at home or in an office can use a computer with a modem to call up information from a bank or to transfer funds electronically
- horsebreaker — One who trains, or breaks in, horses.
- housebreaker — a person who breaks into and enters a house with a felonious intent.
- in sb's wake — If you leave something or someone in your wake, you leave them behind you as you go.
- in the black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- 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.
- keep tabs on — a small flap, strap, loop, or similar appendage, as on a garment, used for pulling, hanging, or decoration.
- kerb-crawler — a man who drives slowly looking to entice a prostitute into his car for sexual purposes
- keyboardists — Plural form of keyboardist.