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

  • kaibab squirrel — a nearly extinct tree squirrel, Sciurus kaibabensis, found only in a small area north of the Grand Canyon.
  • kalmyk republic — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: became subject to Russia in 1646. Capital: Elista. Pop: 292 400 (2002). Area: 76 100 sq km (29 382 sq miles)
  • keep tabs on sb — If someone keeps tabs on you, they make sure that they always know where you are and what you are doing, often in order to control you.
  • keyboard plaque — (jargon)   The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud found on computer keyboards. "Are there any other terminals I can use? This one has a bad case of keyboard plaque."
  • keyboard skills — ability to input information using a keyboard
  • kitchen cabinet — a cupboard built into a kitchen or a chest of drawers for kitchen use, as for dishes and silverware.
  • knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
  • knight banneret — banneret1 (def 2).
  • knowledge-based — characterized by the dominance of information services as an area of growth
  • lake okeechobee — a lake in S Florida, in the Everglades: second largest freshwater lake wholly within the US. Area: 1813 sq km (700 sq miles)
  • luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
  • mackerel breeze — a strong breeze
  • mackinac bridge — a suspension bridge over the Straits of Mackinac, connecting the Upper and Lower peninsulas of Michigan: one of the longest suspension bridges in the world. 3800-foot (1158-meter) center span; 7400 feet (2256 meters) in total length.
  • make a big deal — If someone makes a big deal out of something, they make a fuss about it or treat it as if it were very important.
  • make a comeback — popular again
  • make a habit of — If you make a habit of doing something, you do it regularly or often.
  • make sb welcome — If you make someone welcome or make them feel welcome, you make them feel happy and accepted in a new place.
  • marriage broker — a person who arranges marriages, usually between strangers, for a fee.
  • mechanical bank — a toy bank in which a coin is deposited by a mechanical process that is usually activated by pushing a lever.
  • membership pack — a collection of documents, information leaflets, cards, etc, that is given to members, especially new ones
  • merchant banker — A merchant banker is someone who works for a merchant bank.
  • mortgage broker — agent who matches house buyer with mortgage lender
  • neck sweetbread — sweetbread (def 2).
  • never look back — to become increasingly successful
  • nickel carbonyl — a colorless or yellow, volatile, water-insoluble, poisonous, flammable liquid, Ni(CO) 4 , obtained by the reaction of nickel and carbon monoxide, and used for nickel-plating.
  • pack one's bags — If you pack your bags, you leave a place where you have been staying or living.
  • paperbark maple — a shrub or tree, Acer griseum, native to China, cultivated for its attractive papery brownish bark.
  • parachute brake — a parachute opened horizontally from the tail of an airplane upon landing, used as an aid in braking. Also called parabrake. Compare drogue parachute (def 2).
  • pat on the back — to strike lightly or gently with something flat, as with a paddle or the palm of the hand, usually in order to flatten, smooth, or shape: to pat dough into flat pastry forms.
  • pick up the tab — If you pick up the tab, you pay a bill on behalf of a group of people or provide the money that is needed for something.
  • pickaback plane — a powered airplane designed to be carried aloft by another airplane and released in flight.
  • pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
  • plumber's snake — snake (def 3a).
  • power breakfast — If business people have a power breakfast, they go to a restaurant early in the morning so that they can have a meeting while they eat breakfast.
  • prairie breaker — breaker1 (def 6).
  • public speaking — the act of delivering speeches in public.
  • quadruple bucky — Obsolete. 1. On an MIT space-cadet keyboard, use of all four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a character key. 2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in raw mode, use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are the control and meta keys on *both* sides of the keyboard. This was very difficult to do! One accepted technique was to press the left-control and left-meta keys with your left hand, the right-control and right-meta keys with your right hand, and the fifth key with your nose. Quadruple-bucky combinations were very seldom used in practice, because when one invented a new command one usually assigned it to some character that was easier to type. If you want to imply that a program has ridiculously many commands or features, you can say something like: "Oh, the command that makes it spin the tapes while whistling Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is quadruple-bucky-cokebottle." See double bucky, bucky bits, cokebottle.
  • quarter blanket — a horse blanket, usually placed under a saddle or harness and extending to the horse's tail.
  • qwerty keyboard — a keyboard having the arrangement of alphabetical and numerical keys found on the traditional typewriter
  • record-breaking — top, most successful
  • red-back spider — a venomous spider, Latrodectus hasselti, of Australia and New Zealand, related to the black widow spider and having a bright red stripe on the back.
  • rib-eye (steak) — a beefsteak cut from the rib section, with the bone removed
  • riverbank grape — a high-climbing vine, Vitis riparia, of eastern North America, having fragrant flowers and nearly black fruit.
  • runabout ticket — a rail ticket that allows unlimited travel within a specified area for a limited period of time (for example one day, a weekend, three days, etc)
  • salisbury steak — ground beef, sometimes mixed with other foods, shaped like a hamburger patty and broiled or fried, often garnished or served with a sauce.
  • sand-lime brick — a hard brick composed of silica sand and a lime of high calcium content, molded under high pressure and baked.
  • see the back of — to be rid of
  • shopping basket — a metal or plastic container with one or two handles, used to carry shopping in a shop
  • sink a borehole — To sink a borehole means to drill a deep hole in the ground.
  • skimble-scamble — rambling; confused; nonsensical: a skimble-scamble explanation.
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