12-letter words containing c, l, a, k, b
- black medick — a small European leguminous plant, Medicago lupulina, with trifoliate leaves, small yellow flowers, and black pods
- black muslim — a member of the Black Muslims
- black papers — unofficial papers criticizing government policy
- black pepper — Black pepper is pepper which is dark in colour and has been made from the dried berries of the pepper plant, including their black outer cases.
- black pewter — pewter composed of 60 percent tin and 40 percent lead.
- black plague — Great Plague.
- black poplar — a Eurasian tree, Populus nigra
- black powder — gunpowder as used in sports involving modern muzzleloading firearms
- black prince — Edward2 (Prince of Wales)
- black sapote — a tropical American tree, Diospyros digyna, related to the persimmon, having sweet, edible, green fruit that turns black when ripe.
- black scoter — a scoter of Eurasia and North America, Melanitta nigra, the adult male of which is black.
- black spruce — a coniferous tree, Picea mariana, of the northern regions of North America, growing mostly in cold bogs and having dark green needles
- black stream — a warm ocean current in the Pacific, flowing N along the E coast of Taiwan, NE along the E coast of Japan, and continuing in an easterly direction into the open Pacific.
- black sucker — a hog sucker, Hypentelium nigricans, of eastern U.S. streams.
- black tongue — canine pellagra.
- black velvet — a mixture of stout and champagne in equal proportions
- black walnut — a North American walnut tree, Juglans nigra, with hard dark wood and edible oily nuts
- black wattle — a small Australian acacia tree, A. mearnsii, with yellow flowers
- black-coated — (esp formerly) (of a worker) clerical or professional, as distinguished from commercial or industrial
- black-figure — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece in the 7th and 6th centuries b.c., chiefly characterized by silhouetted figures painted in black slip on a red clay body, details incised into the design, and a two-dimensional structure of form and space.
- black-market — to black-marketeer.
- blackbirding — a common European thrush, Turdus merula, the male of which is black with a yellow bill.
- blackcurrant — In Europe, blackcurrants are a type of very small, dark purple fruits that grow in bunches on bushes.
- blackhearted — wicked; evil
- bladderwrack — any of several seaweeds of the genera Fucus and Ascophyllum, esp F. vesiculosus, that grow in the intertidal regions of rocky shores and have branched brown fronds with air bladders
- blank cheque — If someone is given a blank cheque, they are given the authority to spend as much money as they need or want.
- blister pack — a type of packet in which small items are displayed and sold, consisting of a transparent dome of plastic or similar material mounted on a firm backing such as cardboard
- block caving — a method of mining a large block of ore by systematically undercutting so the ore will cave. Compare cave (def 5a).
- block heater — an electrically operated immersion heater fitted either to enter the water hose or the water jacket surrounding the cylinder block of a motor to warm the coolant in cold weather.
- block island — an island off the coast of and a part of Rhode Island, at the E entrance to Long Island Sound.
- block signal — a fixed railroad signal governing the movements of trains entering and using a given section of track.
- bracket lamp — a wall light that is attached to the wall by a bracket
- brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
- bulk carrier — a ship that carries unpackaged cargo, usually consisting of a single dry commodity, such as coal or grain
- bullock cart — a cart pulled by one or two bullocks
- carbon black — a black finely divided form of amorphous carbon produced by incomplete combustion of natural gas or petroleum: used to reinforce rubber and in the manufacture of pigments and ink
- cavity block — a precast concrete block that contains a cavity or cavities
- central bank — a national bank that does business mainly with a government and with other banks: it regulates the volume and cost of credit
- channel back — an upholstered chair or sofa back having deep vertical grooves.
- clickability — (computing) The quality of being clickable, of causing a particular action when clicked.
- cocktail bar — a bar which serves cocktails
- cricket ball — the ball used to play cricket
- culebra peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Culebra Range of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,069 feet (4288 meters).
- cyberstalker — (Internet) A stalker who operates online.
- dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
- double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
- fall back on — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- gondola back — a chair or couch back curving forward and downward to form arms.
- in the black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- kerb-crawler — a man who drives slowly looking to entice a prostitute into his car for sexual purposes