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13-letter words containing b, i, k, e

  • john sobieski — John, John III (def 2).
  • kerb-crawling — Kerb-crawling is the activity of driving slowly along the side of a road in order to find and hire a prostitute.
  • king-size bed — extra-large bed
  • knickerbocker — a descendant of the Dutch settlers of New York.
  • knobcone pine — a pine, Pinus attenuata, of the Pacific coast of the U.S., bearing cones with knoblike scales.
  • komi republic — a constituent republic of NW Russia: annexed by the princes of Moscow in the 14th century. Capital: Syktyvkar. Pop: 1 019 000 (2002). Area: 415 900 sq km (160 540 sq miles)
  • lake manitoba — a lake in W Canada, in S Manitoba: fed by the outflow from Lake Winnipegosis; drains into Lake Winnipeg. Area: 4706 sq km (1817 sq miles)
  • leading block — lead block.
  • marketability — readily salable.
  • middlebreaker — lister1 (def 1).
  • monkey bridge — flying bridge.
  • mortise block — a block having a shell cut from a single piece of wood.
  • mountain bike — dirt bike, off-road cycle
  • mountebanking — Present participle of mountebank.
  • 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
  • parking brake — emergency brake.
  • path-breaking — very original; ground-breaking
  • pembrokeshire — a historic county in Dyfed, in SW Wales.
  • peruvian bark — cinchona (def 2).
  • picnic basket — woven container for carrying food outdoors
  • 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.
  • pressed brick — face brick molded under pressure to a desired finish.
  • price bracket — a notional range of prices which consumers are prepared to pay for a good
  • rabbit-killer — a rabbit punch.
  • 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.
  • remarkability — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
  • rib eye steak — a large beefsteak cut from the outer, or eye, side of the ribs.
  • rib-eye steak — a large beefsteak cut from the outer, or eye, side of the ribs.
  • right bracket — (character)   "]". ASCII character 93. Common names: right square bracket; ITU-T: closing bracket; unbracket. Rare: unsquare; INTERCAL: U turn back. Paired with left bracket.
  • rubbernecking — staring or gaping inquisitively, esp in a naive or foolish manner
  • service break — an instance of a player winning a game against a server.
  • sewing basket — box for sewing accessories
  • 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.
  • sketchability — the suitability for being sketched
  • skilled labor — labor that requires special training for its satisfactory performance.
  • skin and bone — You can say someone is just skin and bone when you do not approve of the fact that they are very thin.
  • sky-blue pink — a jocular name for a nonexistent, unknown, or unimportant colour
  • speaking tube — a tube for conveying the voice over a somewhat limited distance, as from one part of a building or ship to another.
  • spelling book — an elementary textbook or manual to teach spelling
  • spelling-book — a person who spells words.
  • 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.
  • strikebreaker — a person who takes part in breaking up a strike of workers, either by working or by furnishing workers.
  • take the bait — If you take the bait, you react to something that someone has said or done exactly as they intended you to do. The expression rise to the bait is also used, mainly in British English.
  • the backfield — the quarterback and running backs in a team
  • the big smoke — a large city, esp London
  • thinkableness — the state or quality of being conceivable or thinkable
  • thrombokinase — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
  • to break wind — If someone breaks wind, they release gas from their intestines through their anus.
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