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15-letter words containing b, r, e, c, k

  • airborne attack — an attack involving airborne troops
  • alder buckthorn — a Eurasian rhamnaceous shrub, Frangula alnus, with small greenish flowers and black berry-like fruits
  • antilock brakes — brakes fitted to some road vehicles that prevent skidding and improve control by sensing and compensating for overbraking
  • apartment block — building: flats, apartments
  • back plastering — the introduction of partitions of lath and plaster between the inner and outer surfaces of a stud wall in order to improve the insulating properties of the wall.
  • back projection — a method of projecting pictures onto a translucent screen so that they are viewed from the opposite side, used esp in films to create the illusion that the actors in the foreground are moving
  • backseat driver — If you refer to a passenger in a car as a backseat driver, they annoy you because they constantly give you advice about how to drive.
  • backup software — (tool, software)   Software for doing a backup, often included as part of the operating system. Backup software should provide ways to specify what files get backed up and to where. It may include its own scheduling function to automate the procedure or, preferably, work with generic scheduling facilities. It may include facilities for managing the backup media (e.g. maintaining an index of tapes) and for restoring files from backups. Examples are Unix's dump command and Windows's ntbackup.
  • barracks lawyer — a member of the armed forces who speaks or acts like an authority on military law, regulations, and the rights of service personnel.
  • beginner's luck — the initial good fortune or success commonly supposed to come to a person who has recently taken up a new pursuit, as a sport or game: Catching a large trout the first time you go fishing is simply beginner's luck.
  • berkeley castle — a castle in Gloucestershire: scene of the murder of Edward II in 1327
  • big black river — a river in N central Mississippi, flowing SW to the Mississippi River near Vicksburg. 330 miles (531 km) long.
  • big sandy creek — a river in central Colorado, flowing NE and SE to the Arkansas River near Lamar: site of the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre. 200 miles (322 km) long.
  • black horehound — a hairy unpleasant-smelling chiefly Mediterranean plant, Ballota nigra, having clusters of purple flowers: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
  • black marketeer — A black marketeer is someone who sells goods on the black market.
  • black operation — a covert and undocumented military operation
  • black raspberry — a plant, Rubus occidentalis, of E North America, that has black berry-like fruits
  • black sea bream — a sparid fish, Spondyliosoma cantharus, found in N Europe and the Mediterranean
  • black september — a Palestinian Terrorist group, responsible for the assassinations of Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games at Munich in 1972
  • black snakeroot — a tall bugbane, Cimicifuga racemosa, of the buttercup family, of eastern North America, having thin, tapering, toothed or deeply cut leaflets and branched clusters of small, white flowers.
  • black-marketeer — to sell articles in the black market.
  • blackberry bush — a bush on which blackberries grow
  • blackberry lily — an ornamental Chinese iridaceous plant, Belamcanda chinensis, that has red-spotted orange flowers and clusters of black seeds that resemble blackberries
  • blank cartridge — a cartridge containing powder but no bullet: used in battle practice or as a signal
  • blockade runner — a person, ship etc that tries to carry goods through a blockade
  • blockade-runner — a ship or person that passes through a blockade.
  • blocked records — (storage)   Several records written as a contiguous block on magnetic tape so that they may be accessed in a single I/O operation. Blocking increases the amount of data that may be stored on a tape because there are fewer inter-block gaps. It requires that the tape drive or processor have a sufficiently large buffer to store the whole block.
  • blow one's cork — to lose one's temper; become enraged
  • box huckleberry — a nearly prostrate evergreen huckleberry shrub, Gaylussacia brachycera, of central to eastern North America, having short clusters of white or pink flowers and blue fruit.
  • brackett series — a series of lines in the infrared spectrum of hydrogen.
  • brake parachute — a parachute attached to the rear of a vehicle and opened to assist braking
  • breakdown cover — insurance cover against breakdowns in a vehicle
  • breakeven chart — a graph measuring the value of an enterprise's revenue and costs against some index of its activity, such as percentage capacity. The intersection of the total revenue and total cost curves gives the breakeven point
  • bring the check — If you bring the check in a restaurant, you bring the customer a piece of paper on which the price of their meal is written.
  • brocken specter — an optical phenomenon sometimes occurring at high altitudes when the image of an observer placed between the sun and a cloud is projected on the cloud as a greatly magnified shadow.
  • bronzed grackle — the western subspecies of the American bird, the common grackle, Quiscalus quiscula versicolor, having bronzy, iridescent plumage.
  • brooklyn center — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • bucket conveyor — a conveyor consisting of an endless chain with a series of buckets attached at regular intervals, used for moving ore, gravel, grain, or other bulk materials.
  • bucket elevator — a chain of buckets for raising liquids or materials to a higher level
  • buckinghamshire — a county in SE central England, containing the Vale of Aylesbury and parts of the Chiltern Hills: the geographic and ceremonial county includes Milton Keynes, which became an independent unitary authority in 1997. Administrative centre: Aylesbury. Pop (excluding Milton Keynes): 478 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Milton Keynes): 1568 sq km (605 sq miles)
  • bullock's heart — the large, edible fruit of a tropical American tree, Annona reticulata.
  • bullock's-heart — the large, edible fruit of a tropical American tree, Annona reticulata.
  • calcium blocker — any of a group of drugs that prevent the influx of calcium into excitable tissues such as smooth muscle of the heart or arterioles, used in the treatment of angina, hypertension, and certain arrhythmias.
  • camelback truss — a roof truss having upper and lower chords curving upward from a common point at each side.
  • center halfback — Field Hockey. the player in the middle among the halfbacks.
  • chicken lobster — a young lobster weighing 1 pound (0.4 kg) or less.
  • cinderella book — (publication)   "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation", by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman, (Addison-Wesley, 1979). So called because the cover depicts a girl (putatively Cinderella) sitting in front of a Rube Goldberg device and holding a rope coming out of it. On the back cover, the device is in shambles after she has (inevitably) pulled on the rope. See also book titles.
  • circuit breaker — A circuit breaker is a device which can stop the flow of electricity around a circuit by switching itself off if anything goes wrong.
  • comfort blanket — a blanket that a young child is very attached to
  • commercial bank — a bank primarily concerned with accepting demand deposits, used as checking accounts

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