13-letter words containing b, s, k
- cyberstalkers — Plural form of cyberstalker.
- cyberstalking — Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet to contact someone or find out information about them in a way that is annoying or frightening.
- disembarkment — to go ashore from a ship.
- domesday book — a record of a survey of the lands of England made by order of William the Conqueror about 1086, giving ownership, extent, value, etc., of the properties.
- doomsday book — Domesday Book.
- doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
- drinkableness — the quality of being drinkable, the capacity to be drunk, drinkability
- east kilbride — an administrative district in the Strathclyde region, in S Scotland. 1300 sq. mi. (3367 sq. km).
- exercise bike — exercise machine like a bicycle
- exercise book — An exercise book is a small book that students use for writing in.
- farkleberries — Plural form of farkleberry.
- fast-breaking — (of a news story) occurring suddenly, and often portending a series of events or further developments in rapid succession.
- fishing banks — a place where fish are abundant, as off Newfoundland
- flexible disk — a flexible removable magnetic disk that stores information and can be used to store data for use in a microprocessor
- for sb's sake — When you do something for someone's sake, you do it in order to help them or make them happy.
- frederiksberg — a city in E Denmark: a part of Copenhagen.
- frederiksburg — borough on Zealand island, Denmark: suburb of Copenhagen: pop. 88,000
- hawk-s--beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- heartbreakers — Plural form of heartbreaker.
- hit the books — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
- honest broker — a neutral person or organization that mediates disputes; an impartial mediator.
- horse-breaker — a person who breaks in a horse
- housebreakers — Plural form of housebreaker.
- housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- hub-and-spoke — of or designating a system of air transportation by which local flights carry passengers to one major regional airport where they can board long-distance or other local flights for their final destinations.
- huckleberries — Plural form of huckleberry.
- husking (bee) — cornhusking (sense 2)
- in one's book — a handwritten or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.
- invisible ink — sympathetic ink.
- jack robinson — Bill ("Bojangles") 1878–1949, U.S. tap dancer.
- jesuit's bark — cinchona (def 2).
- john sobieski — John, John III (def 2).
- kalambo falls — an archaeological site at the southeastern end of Lake Tanganyika, on the Zambia-Tanzania border, that has yielded one of the longest continuous cultural sequences in sub-Saharan Africa, beginning more than 100,000 years b.p. and characterized in the earliest levels by evidence of fire use and some simple wooden implements of Lower Paleolithic, or Acheulean, humans.
- keep sb sweet — If you keep someone sweet, you do something to please them in order to prevent them from becoming annoyed or dissatisfied.
- king's bounty — a grant, given in the royal name, to a mother of triplets.
- king-size bed — extra-large bed
- kiss sb's ass — Saying that someone can kiss your ass is a very rude way of expressing anger or disagreement.
- knee breeches — trousers worn by men in the past, which came down as far as their knees rather than their ankles
- know by sight — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- knowledgebase — Alternative spelling of knowledge base.
- kuskokwim bay — an inlet of the Bering Sea in Alaska. Length: about 160 km (100 miles)
- lake balkhash — a salt lake in SE Kazakhstan: fed by the Ili River. Area: about 18 000 sq km (7000 sq miles)
- locked bowels — constipation.
- lubber's knot — an improperly made reef or square knot, likely to slip loose.
- lumberjackets — Plural form of lumberjacket.
- make no bones — If you make no bones about something, you talk openly about it, rather than trying to keep it a secret.
- make sb's day — If something makes your day, it makes you feel very happy.
- market basket — a basket or cart for groceries.
- mortise block — a block having a shell cut from a single piece of wood.
- new brunswick — a province in SE Canada, E of Maine. 27,985 sq. mi. (72,480 sq. km). Capital: Fredericton.