13-letter words containing b, e, r, k, n
- clinker-built — (of a boat or ship) having a hull constructed with each plank overlapping that below
- cockney bream — a young snapper fish
- cyberslacking — (informal) Use of the Internet during work hours for unrelated tasks.
- cyberstalking — Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet to contact someone or find out information about them in a way that is annoying or frightening.
- disembarkment — to go ashore from a ship.
- drink problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
- drinkableness — the quality of being drinkable, the capacity to be drunk, drinkability
- fast-breaking — (of a news story) occurring suddenly, and often portending a series of events or further developments in rapid succession.
- groundbreaker — a person who is an originator, innovator, or pioneer in a particular activity.
- heartbreaking — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
- heartbrokenly — In a heartbroken manner.
- honest broker — a neutral person or organization that mediates disputes; an impartial mediator.
- housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- internet bank — a bank that allows customers to conduct business online, esp exclusively so
- kennebunkport — a town in SW Maine: summer resort.
- kerb-crawling — Kerb-crawling is the activity of driving slowly along the side of a road in order to find and hire a prostitute.
- knee breeches — trousers worn by men in the past, which came down as far as their knees rather than their ankles
- knickerbocker — a descendant of the Dutch settlers of New York.
- know by heart — have memorized
- knuckleballer — a pitcher who specializes in throwing knuckle balls.
- lubber's knot — an improperly made reef or square knot, likely to slip loose.
- merchant bank — a private banking firm engaged chiefly in investing in new issues of securities and in accepting bills of exchange in foreign trade.
- monkey bridge — flying bridge.
- mountebankery — The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
- neurofeedback — The presentation of realtime feedback on brainwave activity, as measured by sensors on the scalp, sometimes offered as a means of therapy.
- new brunswick — a province in SE Canada, E of Maine. 27,985 sq. mi. (72,480 sq. km). Capital: Fredericton.
- nonshrinkable — incapable of being shrunk
- overrun brake — a brake fitted to a trailer or other towed vehicle that prevents the towed vehicle travelling faster than the towing vehicle when slowing down or descending an incline
- parking brake — emergency brake.
- path-breaking — very original; ground-breaking
- peruvian bark — cinchona (def 2).
- pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
- rainbow snake — a burrowing snake, Farancia erytrogramma, of the southeastern U.S., having red and black stripes along the body, a red and yellow underside, and a sharp-tipped tail used in maneuvering prey.
- roanoke bells — a wild plant, Mertensia virginica, of the borage family, native to the eastern U.S., grown as a garden plant for its handsome, nodding clusters of blue flowers.
- rock barnacle — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
- rubbernecking — staring or gaping inquisitively, esp in a naive or foolish manner
- sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
- skateboarding — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
- station break — an interval between or during programs for identifying the station, making announcements, etc.
- stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
- streaky bacon — Streaky bacon is bacon which has stripes of fat between stripes of meat.
- take on board — be receptive
- thrombokinase — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
- to break even — When a company or a person running a business breaks even, they make neither a profit nor a loss.
- to break wind — If someone breaks wind, they release gas from their intestines through their anus.
- troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
- vandyke beard — a short, pointed beard.
- vandyke brown — a medium brown color.
- winter's bark — an evergreen tree, Drimys winteri, ranging from Mexico to Cape Horn, having aromatic leaves and cream-colored, jasmine-scented flowers.
- wrecking ball — a heavy metal ball swung on a cable from a crane and used in demolition work.