12-letter words containing b, r, o, k, e
- crookes tube — a type of cathode-ray tube in which the electrons are produced by a glow discharge in a low-pressure gas
- dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
- donkey derby — a race in which contestants ride donkeys, esp at a rural fête
- double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
- double truck — Typesetting. a chase for holding the type for a center spread, especially for a newspaper.
- doubledecker — Alternative spelling of double-decker.
- floor broker — a member of a stock or commodity exchange who executes orders on the floor of the exchange for other brokers.
- georges bank — a bank extending generally NE from Nantucket: fishing grounds. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- go for broke — a simple past tense of break.
- hobble skirt — a woman's skirt that is very narrow at the bottom, causing the wearer to walk with short, mincing steps.
- horsebreaker — One who trains, or breaks in, horses.
- house-broken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
- housebreaker — a person who breaks into and enters a house with a felonious intent.
- jodrell bank — site of a radio astronomy observatory (Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories) in NE Cheshire, England, that operates a 250-foot (76-meter) radio telescope.
- keyboardists — Plural form of keyboardist.
- kiteboarding — A sport in which participants ride a form of wakeboard or surfboard harnessed to a large kite which is controlled by the rider.
- labor market — the available supply of labor considered with reference to the demand for it.
- leader block — Nautical. lead block.
- monkey bread — the gourdlike fruit of the baobab, eaten by monkeys.
- new york bay — a bay of the Atlantic at the mouth of the Hudson, W of Long Island and E of Staten Island and New Jersey.
- nonbreakable — Not easily broken.
- objectbroker — (programming) A distributed object system from DEC based on the CORBA standard.
- on your bike — away you go
- pattern book — collection of textile motifs or designs
- picture book — a book consisting mainly or entirely of pictures, especially one for children who have not yet learned to read.
- pork butcher — a butcher who specializes in pork
- power broker — a person who wields great political, governmental, or financial power.
- power-broker — a person who wields great political, governmental, or financial power.
- reading book — a book for people who are learning to read, to help them become accustomed to looking at and understanding written words
- receipt book — book containing receipt slips
- ribbon snake — either of two long-tailed garter snakes, Thamnophis proximus or T. sauritus, of eastern and central North America, having a brownish body and yellow or orange stripes.
- robert hooke — Robert, 1635–1703, English philosopher, microscopist, and physicist.
- rock climber — sb who scales mountains
- rock lobster — spiny lobster.
- service book — a book containing the forms of worship used in divine services.
- shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
- skateboarder — person who rides skateboard
- stockbreeder — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
- stonebreaker — a person that breaks up stone
- takeover bid — offer to buy a company
- troublemaker — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
- truck jobber — a jobber or wholesaler who makes calls carrying goods on a truck, thereby being able to take and deliver orders on the same call.
- turkey brown — an angler's name for a species of mayfly, Paraleptophlebia submarginata
- unreckonable — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- wakeboarding — (sports) A water sport where a rider on a small board is towed by a motor boat, and attached by a cable.
- workableness — The quality or state of being workable, or the extent to which a thing is workable.