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13-letter words containing i, b, n, k

  • finback whale — rorqual
  • fishing banks — a place where fish are abundant, as off Newfoundland
  • heartbreaking — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
  • housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
  • 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.
  • internet bank — a bank that allows customers to conduct business online, esp exclusively so
  • invisible ink — sympathetic ink.
  • jack robinson — Bill ("Bojangles") 1878–1949, U.S. tap dancer.
  • john sobieski — John, John III (def 2).
  • kerb-crawling — Kerb-crawling is the activity of driving slowly along the side of a road in order to find and hire a prostitute.
  • king's bounty — a grant, given in the royal name, to a mother of triplets.
  • king-size bed — extra-large bed
  • knickerbocker — a descendant of the Dutch settlers of New York.
  • knobcone pine — a pine, Pinus attenuata, of the Pacific coast of the U.S., bearing cones with knoblike scales.
  • know by sight — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
  • kota kinabalu — a state in Malaysia, on the N tip of Borneo: formerly a British crown colony. 29,347 sq. mi. (76,008 sq. km). Capital: Kota Kinabalu.
  • lake manitoba — a lake in W Canada, in S Manitoba: fed by the outflow from Lake Winnipegosis; drains into Lake Winnipeg. Area: 4706 sq km (1817 sq miles)
  • leading block — lead block.
  • mackinaw boat — a flat-bottomed boat with sharp prow and square stern, propelled by oars and sometimes sails, formerly widely used on the upper Great Lakes.
  • monkey bridge — flying bridge.
  • mountain bike — dirt bike, off-road cycle
  • mountebanking — Present participle of mountebank.
  • national bank — a bank chartered by the U.S. government and formerly authorized to issue notes that served as money.
  • new brunswick — a province in SE Canada, E of Maine. 27,985 sq. mi. (72,480 sq. km). Capital: Fredericton.
  • nonshrinkable — incapable of being shrunk
  • pannikin boss — an overseer of a small group of workers; person with minor authority.
  • parking brake — emergency brake.
  • parking orbit — a temporary orbit in which a spacecraft awaits the next phase of its mission.
  • path-breaking — very original; ground-breaking
  • peruvian bark — cinchona (def 2).
  • picnic basket — woven container for carrying food outdoors
  • pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
  • pink bollworm — the larva of a gelechiid moth, Pectinophora gossypiella, that feeds on the seeds of the bolls of cotton and was introduced into cotton-growing regions of the world from Asia.
  • rainbow snake — a burrowing snake, Farancia erytrogramma, of the southeastern U.S., having red and black stripes along the body, a red and yellow underside, and a sharp-tipped tail used in maneuvering prey.
  • road-blocking — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
  • rock climbing — the sport of climbing sheer rocky surfaces on the sides of mountains, often with the aid of special equipment.
  • rubbernecking — staring or gaping inquisitively, esp in a naive or foolish manner
  • sewing basket — box for sewing accessories
  • skateboarding — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
  • skin and bone — You can say someone is just skin and bone when you do not approve of the fact that they are very thin.
  • sky-blue pink — a jocular name for a nonexistent, unknown, or unimportant colour
  • speaking tube — a tube for conveying the voice over a somewhat limited distance, as from one part of a building or ship to another.
  • spelling book — an elementary textbook or manual to teach spelling
  • spelling-book — a person who spells words.
  • station break — an interval between or during programs for identifying the station, making announcements, etc.
  • stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
  • string bikini — a skimpy bikini having often a triangular covering part held in place by narrow, string-like ties
  • swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
  • symbolic link — (file format)   (SYLK) A Microsoft file format for spreadsheets, (not to be confused with symbolic link). SYLK format existed in one form or another in as early as 1987, and was part of Excel v1.0. It is is an outgrowth of VisiCalc DIF file format. SYLK format is ascii text and represents information about both formula, value, and some formatting information, which makes it something like an RTF for spreadsheets. It is used as a general tabular data exchange format.
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