12-letter words containing b, e, k
- rock lobster — spiny lobster.
- rubber check — a check drawn on an account lacking the funds to pay it; a check that bounces.
- rubbernecker — a person who rubbernecks
- rubik's cube — a puzzle consisting of a cube with colored faces made of 26 smaller colored blocks attached to a spindle in the center, the object being to rotate the blocks until each face of the cube is a single color.
- 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.
- service book — a book containing the forms of worship used in divine services.
- shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
- skateboarder — person who rides skateboard
- skeleton bob — a small sledge for racing over a frozen track, steered by the rider by movements of the head and shoulders
- sketch-books — Also, sketchpad. a book or pad of drawing paper for sketches.
- 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.
- stockbreeder — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
- 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
- the bollocks — something excellent
- thumb-sucker — a person who habitually sucks a thumb.
- ticket booth — kiosk: sells tickets
- to know best — If you say that a particular person knows best, you mean that they have a lot of experience and should therefore be trusted to make decisions for other people.
- troublemaker — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
- truck jobber — a jobber or wholesaler who makes calls carrying goods on a truck, thereby being able to take and deliver orders on the same call.
- turkey brown — an angler's name for a species of mayfly, Paraleptophlebia submarginata
- 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.
- week by week — each week
- 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.