12-letter words containing b, e, k
- lunch-bucket — a small container, usually of metal or plastic and with a handle, for carrying one's lunch from home to school or work.
- make believe — the style or manner in which something is made; form; build.
- make sb sick — disgust sb morally
- make the bed — rearrange the bedsheets
- make-believe — pretense, especially of an innocent or playful kind; feigning; sham: the make-believe of children playing.
- make-up base — a primer of make-up applied to the face in order to prepare it for the main layer of make-up
- marcus baker — Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska, near Anchorage: highest peak in the Chugach Mountains. 13,176 feet (4016 meters).
- market abuse — (in Britain) a statutory offence which covers insider trading and stock market manipulation
- marketbasket — a selected list of goods and services, usually food and household items regarded as typifying consumer spending over a given time, used to measure the cost of living
- master baker — a baker who is fully qualified to practise his trade and to train others in it
- meker burner — a gas burner similar to the Bunsen burner but producing a hotter flame by virtue of having at its mouth a metal screen to allow a more intimate mixture of air and gas.
- mental block — inability to recall
- milkweed bug — any of several red and black lygaeid bugs, as Oncopeltus fasciatus, that feed on the juice of the milkweed.
- monkey block — Nautical. a single block that swivels.
- monkey bread — the gourdlike fruit of the baobab, eaten by monkeys.
- monkey climb — a wrestling throw in which a contestant seizes his or her opponent's arms or neck, places his feet on the opponent's stomach, and falls backwards, straightening the legs and throwing the opponent over his or her head
- moses basket — wicker bed for a baby
- mount kazbek — an extinct volcano in N Georgia in the central Caucasus Mountains. Height: 5047 m (16 558 ft)
- mountebanked — Simple past tense and past participle of mountebank.
- new york bay — a bay of the Atlantic at the mouth of the Hudson, W of Long Island and E of Staten Island and New Jersey.
- nonbreakable — Not easily broken.
- objectbroker — (programming) A distributed object system from DEC based on the CORBA standard.
- office block — a large office building.
- ohio buckeye — See under buckeye (def 1).
- on the blink — to open and close the eye, especially involuntarily; wink rapidly and repeatedly.
- on the block — for sale at auction
- on the books — registered
- on your bike — away you go
- pathbreaking — pertaining to blazing a trail or path.
- pattern book — collection of textile motifs or designs
- payback time — Payback time is when someone has to take the consequences of what they have done in the past. You can use this expression to talk about good or bad consequences.
- peacock blue — a lustrous greenish blue, as of certain peacock feathers.
- pension book — In Britain, a pension book is a small book which is given to pensioners by the government. Each week, one page can be exchanged for money at a Post Office.
- pereira bark — the bark of any of several South American trees belonging to the genus Geissospermum, of the dogbane family, especially that of G. vellosii, used in Brazil to allay fever.
- picture book — a book consisting mainly or entirely of pictures, especially one for children who have not yet learned to read.
- plunket baby — a baby brought up in infancy under the dietary recommendations of the Plunket Society
- pork butcher — a butcher who specializes in pork
- power broker — a person who wields great political, governmental, or financial power.
- power-broker — a person who wields great political, governmental, or financial power.
- prebreakfast — occurring before breakfast, of or pertaining to the period before breakfast
- quarterbacks — Plural form of quarterback.
- reading book — a book for people who are learning to read, to help them become accustomed to looking at and understanding written words
- receipt book — book containing receipt slips
- reserve bank — one of the 12 principal banks of the U.S. Federal Reserve System.
- ribbon snake — either of two long-tailed garter snakes, Thamnophis proximus or T. sauritus, of eastern and central North America, having a brownish body and yellow or orange stripes.
- ribeye steak — a large beefsteak cut from the outer, or eye, side of the ribs.
- rickenbacker — Edward Vernon ("Eddie") 1890–1973, U.S. aviator and aviation executive.
- risk-benefit — involving studies, testing, etc., to establish whether the benefits, as of a course of medical treatment, outweigh the risks involved: to arrive at a risk-benefit ratio.
- robert hooke — Robert, 1635–1703, English philosopher, microscopist, and physicist.
- rock climber — sb who scales mountains