14-letter words containing b, e, c, k
- khmer republic — a former official name of Cambodia.
- kick the habit — quit smoking
- knickerbockers — Also, knickerbockers [nik-er-bok-erz] /ˈnɪk ərˌbɒk ərz/ (Show IPA). loose-fitting short trousers gathered in at the knees.
- 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)
- leave feedback — If a guest leaves feedback, they tell you if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
- leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
- library ticket — a ticket admitting a person access to a library, esp a reference library
- linoleum block — a piece of thick, soft, cork linoleum often mounted on a block of wood, incised or carved in relief with a design, pattern, or pictorial motif, and used in making prints.
- mashie niblick — a club with an iron head whose face has more slope than a mashie but less slope than a pitcher.
- on the back of — If you say that one thing happens on the back of another thing, you mean that it happens after that other thing and in addition to it.
- 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
- peck's bad boy — the mischievous boy in a series of newspaper stories and collected volumes by the American newspaperman and humorist George Wilbur Peck (1840–1916).
- pocket borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough whose representatives in Parliament were controlled by an individual or family.
- 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.
- record-breaker — A record-breaker is someone or something that beats the previous best result in a sport or other activity.
- red chokeberry — See under chokeberry (def 1).
- reference book — a book containing useful facts or specially organized information, as an encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas, yearbook, etc.
- sakha republic — an administrative division in E Russia, in NE Siberia on the Arctic Ocean: the coldest inhabited region of the world; it has rich mineral resources. Capital: Yakutsk. Pop: 948 100 (2002). Area: 3 103 200 sq km (1 197 760 sq miles)
- salary bracket — a given range or bracket of salaries within which the amount of pay earned by someone falls
- screen blanker — screen saver
- seebeck effect — thermoelectric effect.
- sheepback rock — roche moutonnée.
- shock absorber — a device for damping sudden and rapid motion, as the recoil of a spring-mounted object from shock.
- square bracket — bracket (def 3).
- starch blocker — a substance ingested in the belief that it inhibits the body's ability to metabolize starch and thereby promotes weight loss: declared illegal in the U.S. by the FDA.
- stockbrokerage — a stockbroker's work or business
- ten-acre block — a block of subdivided farming land, usually within commuting distance of a city, that provides a semirural way of life
- the all blacks — the international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
- the black belt — a region of the southern US extending from Georgia across central Alabama and Mississippi, in which the population contains a large number of Black people: also noted for its fertile black soil
- the black caps — the international cricket team of New Zealand
- the black isle — a peninsula in NE Scotland, in Highland council area, between the Cromarty and Moray Firths
- the ice blacks — the international ice hockey team of New Zealand
- the upper back — the part of the back between the shoulders
- ticket barrier — gate in train station
- to break cover — If you break cover, you leave a place where you have been hiding or sheltering from attack, usually in order to run to another place.
- tuckaway table — a table having a support folding into one plane and a tilting or drop-leaf top.
- vickers number — a numerical expression of the hardness of a metal as determined by a test (Vickers test) in which the sample is indented under a known pressure by the point of a diamond and the surface area of the indentation is divided into the amount of pressure applied.
- wild buckwheat — umbrella plant (def 3).
- wrecker's ball — a heavy metal ball swung on a cable from a crane and used in demolition work.
- writer's block — a usually temporary condition in which a writer finds it impossible to proceed with the writing of a novel, play, or other work.