15-letter words containing b, r, o, k
- discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
- dog's breakfast — a disorderly mixture; hodgepodge.
- donnybrook fair — a fair which until 1855 was held annually at Donnybrook, County Dublin, Ireland, and which was famous for rioting and dissipation.
- dvorak keyboard — a keyboard designed to facilitate typing speed by having the most frequently used characters on the home row, with all the vowels on the left side.
- electronic book — An electronic book is the same as an e-book.
- embroidery silk — a silk thread used for embroidery
- false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
- garboard strake — the first strake on each side of a keel.
- globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
- ground-breaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
- groundbreakings — Plural form of groundbreaking.
- groutlock brick — a brick chamfered on its inner angles to allow space for vertical and horizontal reinforcing rods sealed in grout.
- heartbrokenness — The state or quality of being heartbroken.
- keyboard plaque — (jargon) The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud found on computer keyboards. "Are there any other terminals I can use? This one has a bad case of keyboard plaque."
- keyboard skills — ability to input information using a keyboard
- knebworth house — a Tudor mansion in Knebworth in Hertfordshire: home of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton; decorated (1843) in the Gothic style
- knickerbockered — wearing knickers.
- knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
- liskov, barbara — Barbara Liskov
- manukau harbour — an inlet of the Tasman Sea near Auckland in New Zealand on NW North Island
- marriage broker — a person who arranges marriages, usually between strangers, for a fee.
- mortgage broker — agent who matches house buyer with mortgage lender
- mount blackburn — a mountain in SE Alaska, the highest peak in the Wrangell Mountains. Height: 5037 m (16 523 ft)
- never look back — to become increasingly successful
- nickel carbonyl — a colorless or yellow, volatile, water-insoluble, poisonous, flammable liquid, Ni(CO) 4 , obtained by the reaction of nickel and carbon monoxide, and used for nickel-plating.
- not a dickybird — not a word; nothing
- notour bankrupt — a bankrupt who has failed to discharge his or her debts within the days of grace allowed by the court
- old boy network — an exclusive network that links members of a profession, social class, or organization or the alumni of a particular school through which the individuals assist one another in business, politics, etc.
- old-boy network — an exclusive network that links members of a profession, social class, or organization or the alumni of a particular school through which the individuals assist one another in business, politics, etc.
- pink-shirt book — (publication) "The Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC". The original cover featured a picture of Peter Norton with a silly smirk on his face, wearing a pink shirt. Perhaps in recognition of this usage, the current edition has a different picture of Norton wearing a pink shirt. See also book titles.
- power breakfast — If business people have a power breakfast, they go to a restaurant early in the morning so that they can have a meeting while they eat breakfast.
- qwerty keyboard — a keyboard having the arrangement of alphabetical and numerical keys found on the traditional typewriter
- record-breaking — top, most successful
- rockwell number — a numerical expression of the hardness of a metal as determined by a test (Rockwell test) made by indenting a test piece with a Brale, or with a steel ball of specific diameter, under two successive loads and measuring the resulting permanent indentation.
- runabout ticket — a rail ticket that allows unlimited travel within a specified area for a limited period of time (for example one day, a weekend, three days, etc)
- shock probation — the release on probation of a criminal after brief imprisonment
- sink a borehole — To sink a borehole means to drill a deep hole in the ground.
- social bookmark — the practice of saving bookmarked Web pages to a public website as a way to share the links with other Internet users: Social bookmarking is a tool that allows you to add tags and comments to your bookmarks.
- spiny cocklebur — a cocklebur, Xanthium spinosum, introduced into North America from Europe.
- spiral notebook — a notebook held together by a coil of wire passed through small holes punched at the back edge of the covers and individual pages
- starting blocks — the rigid blocks adjustable at an angle and mounted on a track against which a runner's shoes are placed to aid in starting
- think better of — to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.
- to draw a blank — If you draw a blank when you are looking for someone or something, you do not succeed in finding them.
- to go for broke — If you go for broke, you take the most extreme or risky of the possible courses of action in order to try and achieve success.
- traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
- turkish tobacco — a strongly aromatic tobacco, grown chiefly in Turkey and Greece, used in cigarettes.
- unskilled labor — work that requires practically no training or experience for its adequate or competent performance.