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13-letter words containing b, o, k, s

  • exercise book — An exercise book is a small book that students use for writing in.
  • for sb's sake — When you do something for someone's sake, you do it in order to help them or make them happy.
  • hit the books — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
  • honest broker — a neutral person or organization that mediates disputes; an impartial mediator.
  • horse-breaker — a person who breaks in a horse
  • housebreakers — Plural form of housebreaker.
  • housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
  • hub-and-spoke — of or designating a system of air transportation by which local flights carry passengers to one major regional airport where they can board long-distance or other local flights for their final destinations.
  • in one's book — a handwritten or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.
  • jack robinson — Bill ("Bojangles") 1878–1949, U.S. tap dancer.
  • john sobieski — John, John III (def 2).
  • kalambo falls — an archaeological site at the southeastern end of Lake Tanganyika, on the Zambia-Tanzania border, that has yielded one of the longest continuous cultural sequences in sub-Saharan Africa, beginning more than 100,000 years b.p. and characterized in the earliest levels by evidence of fire use and some simple wooden implements of Lower Paleolithic, or Acheulean, humans.
  • king's bounty — a grant, given in the royal name, to a mother of triplets.
  • know by sight — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
  • knowledgebase — Alternative spelling of knowledge base.
  • kuskokwim bay — an inlet of the Bering Sea in Alaska. Length: about 160 km (100 miles)
  • locked bowels — constipation.
  • lubber's knot — an improperly made reef or square knot, likely to slip loose.
  • make no bones — If you make no bones about something, you talk openly about it, rather than trying to keep it a secret.
  • mortise block — a block having a shell cut from a single piece of wood.
  • news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
  • nonshrinkable — incapable of being shrunk
  • off the books — of or relating to a book or books: the book department; a book salesman.
  • off-the-books — not recorded in account books or not reported as taxable income.
  • on one's back — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
  • opossum block — (in New Zealand) a block of bush allocated to a licensed opossum trapper
  • pannikin boss — an overseer of a small group of workers; person with minor authority.
  • parker bowles — Camilla (née Shand). born 1947, became the second wife of Prince Charles in 2005; created Duchess of Cornwall and Duchess of Rothesay
  • pembrokeshire — a historic county in Dyfed, in SW Wales.
  • 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.
  • pollen basket — (of bees) a smooth area on the hind tibia of each leg fringed with long hairs and serving to transport pollen.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • smoke chamber — an enlarged area between the throat of a fireplace and the chimney flue.
  • smoked rubber — a type of crude natural rubber in the form of brown sheets obtained by coagulating latex with an acid, rolling it into sheets, and drying over open wood fires. It is the main raw material for natural rubber products
  • 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.
  • stock buyback — buyback (def 3).
  • 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.
  • symbolic link — (file format)   (SYLK) A Microsoft file format for spreadsheets, (not to be confused with symbolic link). SYLK format existed in one form or another in as early as 1987, and was part of Excel v1.0. It is is an outgrowth of VisiCalc DIF file format. SYLK format is ascii text and represents information about both formula, value, and some formatting information, which makes it something like an RTF for spreadsheets. It is used as a general tabular data exchange format.
  • take by storm — be a sudden success
  • the big smoke — a large city, esp London
  • thomas becket — Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.
  • thrombokinase — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
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