15-letter words containing b, o, a, k
- dog's breakfast — a disorderly mixture; hodgepodge.
- donnybrook fair — a fair which until 1855 was held annually at Donnybrook, County Dublin, Ireland, and which was famous for rioting and dissipation.
- dvorak keyboard — a keyboard designed to facilitate typing speed by having the most frequently used characters on the home row, with all the vowels on the left side.
- engagement book — couple
- false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
- garboard strake — the first strake on each side of a keel.
- globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
- ground-breaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
- groundbreakings — Plural form of groundbreaking.
- heartbrokenness — The state or quality of being heartbroken.
- humpback salmon — a pink salmon inhabiting North Pacific waters: so-called because of the hump that appears behind the head of the male when it is ready for spawning.
- jack-in-the-box — a toy consisting of a box from which an enclosed figure springs up when the lid is opened.
- jukebox musical — a musical play or film that is based around a series of well-known popular songs
- keep tabs on sb — If someone keeps tabs on you, they make sure that they always know where you are and what you are doing, often in order to control you.
- keyboard plaque — (jargon) The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud found on computer keyboards. "Are there any other terminals I can use? This one has a bad case of keyboard plaque."
- keyboard skills — ability to input information using a keyboard
- knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
- knowledge-based — characterized by the dominance of information services as an area of growth
- lake okeechobee — a lake in S Florida, in the Everglades: second largest freshwater lake wholly within the US. Area: 1813 sq km (700 sq miles)
- liskov, barbara — Barbara Liskov
- luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
- make a comeback — popular again
- make a habit of — If you make a habit of doing something, you do it regularly or often.
- make sb welcome — If you make someone welcome or make them feel welcome, you make them feel happy and accepted in a new place.
- manukau harbour — an inlet of the Tasman Sea near Auckland in New Zealand on NW North Island
- marriage broker — a person who arranges marriages, usually between strangers, for a fee.
- mortgage broker — agent who matches house buyer with mortgage lender
- mount blackburn — a mountain in SE Alaska, the highest peak in the Wrangell Mountains. Height: 5037 m (16 523 ft)
- never look back — to become increasingly successful
- nickel carbonyl — a colorless or yellow, volatile, water-insoluble, poisonous, flammable liquid, Ni(CO) 4 , obtained by the reaction of nickel and carbon monoxide, and used for nickel-plating.
- not a dickybird — not a word; nothing
- notour bankrupt — a bankrupt who has failed to discharge his or her debts within the days of grace allowed by the court
- pack one's bags — If you pack your bags, you leave a place where you have been staying or living.
- pat on the back — to strike lightly or gently with something flat, as with a paddle or the palm of the hand, usually in order to flatten, smooth, or shape: to pat dough into flat pastry forms.
- power breakfast — If business people have a power breakfast, they go to a restaurant early in the morning so that they can have a meeting while they eat breakfast.
- qwerty keyboard — a keyboard having the arrangement of alphabetical and numerical keys found on the traditional typewriter
- record-breaking — top, most successful
- runabout ticket — a rail ticket that allows unlimited travel within a specified area for a limited period of time (for example one day, a weekend, three days, etc)
- see the back of — to be rid of
- shock probation — the release on probation of a criminal after brief imprisonment
- shopping basket — a metal or plastic container with one or two handles, used to carry shopping in a shop
- sink a borehole — To sink a borehole means to drill a deep hole in the ground.
- social bookmark — the practice of saving bookmarked Web pages to a public website as a way to share the links with other Internet users: Social bookmarking is a tool that allows you to add tags and comments to your bookmarks.
- spiral notebook — a notebook held together by a coil of wire passed through small holes punched at the back edge of the covers and individual pages
- starting blocks — the rigid blocks adjustable at an angle and mounted on a track against which a runner's shoes are placed to aid in starting
- take sb to task — If you take someone to task, you criticize them or tell them off because of something bad or wrong that they have done.
- thomas a becket — Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.
- to draw a blank — If you draw a blank when you are looking for someone or something, you do not succeed in finding them.
- traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
- turkish tobacco — a strongly aromatic tobacco, grown chiefly in Turkey and Greece, used in cigarettes.