14-letter words containing b, r, i, n, k
- pembroke pines — a city in SE Florida, near Fort Lauderdale.
- pipeline break — (architecture) (Or "pipeline stall") The delay caused on a processor using pipelines when a transfer of control is taken. Normally when a control-transfer instruction (a branch, conditional branch, call or trap) is taken, any following instructions which have been loaded into the processor's pipeline must be discarded or "flushed" and new instructions loaded from the branch destination. This introduces a delay before the processor can resume execution. "Delayed control-transfer" is a technique used to reduce this effect.
- purkinje fiber — any of the specialized cardiac muscle fibers forming a network in the ventricular walls that conduct electric impulses responsible for the contractions of the ventricles.
- quarterbacking — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
- re-embarkation — the act of boarding a ship or aircraft again
- retail banking — banking for individual customers
- shooting brake — station wagon.
- siberian husky — one of a Siberian breed of medium-size dogs having a thick, soft coat, raised originally as sled dogs.
- skirting board — fabric for making skirts.
- starting block — a device used by runners, especially sprinters, for increasing their speed off the mark, consisting of a metal or wooden frame, usually secured to the ground at both ends, with adjustable, triangular-shaped blocks on each side for bracing the feet.
- strike benefit — money paid to strikers by a union to enable them to subsist during a strike.
- strikebreaking — action directed at breaking up a strike of workers.
- universal bank — A universal bank is a bank that offers both banking and stockbroking services to its clients.
- vickers number — a numerical expression of the hardness of a metal as determined by a test (Vickers test) in which the sample is indented under a known pressure by the point of a diamond and the surface area of the indentation is divided into the amount of pressure applied.
- yorkshire bond — flying bond.