13-letter words containing b, o, k, t, e
- mountebankery — The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
- mountebanking — Present participle of mountebank.
- news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
- 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.
- pollen basket — (of bees) a smooth area on the hind tibia of each leg fringed with long hairs and serving to transport pollen.
- rock the boat — to move or sway to and fro or from side to side.
- 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 by storm — be a sudden success
- take on board — be receptive
- 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.
- throttle back — If you throttle back, or you throttle back the engine, when driving a motor vehicle or flying an aircraft, you make it go slower by reducing the quantity of fuel entering the engine.
- 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.
- truck bolster — the upper transverse member of a car truck that holds the truck center plate and receives the car's weight.