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

  • rickenbackerEdward Vernon ("Eddie") 1890–1973, U.S. aviator and aviation executive.
  • rugby tackle — A rugby tackle is a way of making someone fall over by throwing your arms around their legs or hips.
  • saddle block — a type of spinal anaesthesia producing sensory loss in the buttocks, inner sides of the thighs, and perineum
  • safe-breaker — a person who breaks open and robs safes
  • salad basket — a basket in which washed salad greens are swung or spun to remove excess water.
  • shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
  • skateboarder — person who rides skateboard
  • snake-bitten — bitten by a snake.
  • soybean milk — a milk substitute made of soy flour and water, used especially in the making of tofu.
  • spring break — a vacation from school or college during the spring term, lasting about a week.
  • statute book — a book containing the laws enacted by the legislature of a state or nation.
  • stonebreaker — a person that breaks up stone
  • straddleback — astride, on horseback
  • swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
  • t-bone steak — a loin steak having some tenderloin, characterized by its T -shaped bone.
  • take a break — have a rest
  • take umbrage — If you say that a person takes umbrage, you mean that they are upset or offended by something that someone says or does to them, often without much reason.
  • takeover bid — offer to buy a company
  • troublemaker — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
  • underblanket — a blanket placed under a bottom sheet
  • undertakable — able to be undertaken
  • unmarketable — readily salable.
  • unmistakable — not mistakable; clear; obvious.
  • unreckonable — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
  • unremarkable — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
  • unremarkably — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
  • unshrinkable — not able to contract or become smaller in size
  • vacuum brake — a brake system, used on British and many overseas railways, in which the brake is held off by a vacuum on one side of the brake-operating cylinder. If the vacuum is destroyed by controlled leakage of air or a disruptive emergency, the brake is applied. It is now largely superseded by the Westinghouse brake system
  • van riebeeck — Jan, full name Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck. 1619–77, Dutch colonial administrator. Founder of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope (1652)
  • wakeboarding — (sports) A water sport where a rider on a small board is towed by a motor boat, and attached by a cable.
  • walking beam — an overhead oscillating lever, pivoted at the middle, for transmitting force from a vertical connecting rod below one end to a vertical connecting rod, pump rod, etc., below the other end.
  • wastebaskets — Plural form of wastebasket.
  • watteau back — a loose, full back of a woman's gown, formed by wide box pleats hanging from a high shoulder yoke and extending to the hem in an unbroken line.
  • wilkes-barre — a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River.
  • windbreakers — Plural form of windbreaker.
  • winter break — a period of vacation between semesters of colleges, universities, or other schools and usually including the winter holidays.
  • workableness — The quality or state of being workable, or the extent to which a thing is workable.
  • wrecking bar — pinch bar.
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