14-letter words containing b, s, k, t
- brunswick stew — a stew originally made with squirrel and onions, and now usually with rabbit or chicken and corn, okra, onions, tomatoes, lima beans, etc.
- builder's knot — clove hitch
- bulk transport — the transport of large quantities of goods or commodities in lorries, ships, or by rail
- bumper sticker — A bumper sticker is a small piece of paper or plastic with words or pictures on it, designed for sticking onto the back of your car. It usually has a political, religious, or humorous message.
- buttermilk sky — a cloudy sky resembling the mottled or clabbered appearance of buttermilk.
- buyer's market — When there is a buyer's market for a particular product, there are more of the products for sale than there are people who want to buy them, so buyers have a lot of choice and can make prices come down.
- buyers' market — a market in which goods and services are plentiful and prices relatively low.
- buyers' strike — an attempt on the part of consumers to lower price levels by boycotting retailers or certain types of goods.
- chicken breast — pigeon breast
- clothes basket — a basket for storing and transporting clothes that need washing, or have been washed
- cook the books — to make fraudulent alterations to business or other accounts
- crossbolt lock — a lock controlling two bolts moving in opposite directions, as to the top and bottom of a doorframe.
- custodian bank — A custodian bank is a bank that holds customer assets in safety.
- customs broker — a person whose job is to assist businesses in clearing imported or exported goods through customs
- disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
- drinks cabinet — a cocktail cabinet
- dumbarton oaks — an estate in the District of Columbia: site of conferences held to discuss proposals for creation of the United Nations, August–October, 1944.
- get one's back — situated at or in the rear: at the back door; back fence.
- hanging basket — suspended woven container for plants
- hit the bricks — a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
- john steinbeck — John (Ernst) [urnst] /ɜrnst/ (Show IPA), 1902–68, U.S. novelist: Nobel prize 1962.
- keep sb posted — update regularly
- keep the books — to keep written records of the finances of a business or other enterprise
- king of beasts — the lion.
- kuznetsk basin — an industrial region in the S Russian Federation in Asia: coal fields.
- lake athabaska — a lake in W Canada, in NW Saskatchewan and NE Alberta. Area: about 7770 sq km (3000 sq miles)
- laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
- leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
- make a stab at — to make an attempt at
- marketableness — The state or quality of being marketable.
- megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
- oblique stroke — (character) "/". Common names include: (forward) slash; stroke; ITU-T: slant; oblique stroke. Rare: diagonal; solidus; over; slak; virgule; INTERCAL: slat. Commonly used as the division operator in programming, and to separate the components in Unix pathnames, and hence also in URLs. Also used to delimit regular expressions in several languages.
- poikiloblastic — (of metamorphic rocks) having small grains of one mineral embedded in metacrysts of another mineral.
- post-breakfast — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
- russet burbank — a brown-skinned, oblong potato having a mealy flesh with high starch content.
- saddle blanket — a saddle-shaped pad, as of felt or sheepskin, placed beneath the saddle to prevent it from irritating the horse's skin.
- salary bracket — a given range or bracket of salaries within which the amount of pay earned by someone falls
- seebeck effect — thermoelectric effect.
- sergeant baker — a large brightly-coloured fish of the genus Latropiscis, found in temperate reef waters of Australasia
- shooting brake — station wagon.
- skirting board — fabric for making skirts.
- square bracket — bracket (def 3).
- starch blocker — a substance ingested in the belief that it inhibits the body's ability to metabolize starch and thereby promotes weight loss: declared illegal in the U.S. by the FDA.
- 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.
- steamer basket — a gift basket of fruit, sweets, and the like, often including champagne, sent to a person departing on a trip, especially by ship.
- stockbrokerage — a stockbroker's work or business
- strike benefit — money paid to strikers by a union to enable them to subsist during a strike.
- strike-breaker — A strike-breaker is a person who continues to work during a strike, or someone who takes over the work of a person who is on strike.
- strikebreaking — action directed at breaking up a strike of workers.
- sunburst clock — a clock with the pattern or design of a sun