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12-letter words containing k, a, b, i

  • drop a brick — 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.
  • fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
  • fruit basket — a basket containing a variety of fruits sent as a gift
  • geelvink bay — former (Dutch) name of Sarera Bay.
  • grand kabuki — kabuki (def 2).
  • greenbackism — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
  • hack to bits — to damage severely
  • hkakabo razi — the highest peak in Myanmar, in Kachin state, in the N. 19,294 feet (5881 meters).
  • home banking — a system whereby a person at home or in an office can use a computer with a modem to call up information from a bank or to transfer funds electronically
  • in sb's wake — If you leave something or someone in your wake, you leave them behind you as you go.
  • in the black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
  • ishikari bay — a bay of the Sea of Japan, on the W coast of Hokkaido, Japan.
  • iskander bey — Scanderbeg.
  • jackass brig — a two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on the foremast with a fore-and-aft mainsail; brigantine.
  • jailbreaking — Present participle of jailbreak.
  • jaw-breaking — Informal. a word that is hard to pronounce.
  • keyboardists — Plural form of keyboardist.
  • khaibar pass — Khyber Pass.
  • kinesophobia — Fear of movement.
  • kit-cat club — a club of Whig wits, painters, politicians, and men of letters, including Robert Walpole, John Vanbrugh, William Congreve, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Godfrey Kneller, that flourished in London between 1703 and 1720.
  • kit-kat club — a club of Whig wits, painters, politicians, and men of letters, including Robert Walpole, John Vanbrugh, William Congreve, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Godfrey Kneller, that flourished in London between 1703 and 1720.
  • kite balloon — a barrage balloon intended for use in information-gathering and observation; it is usually tethered to the ground and has lobes to keep it stable and pointing into the wind
  • kiteboarding — A sport in which participants ride a form of wakeboard or surfboard harnessed to a large kite which is controlled by the rider.
  • knitting bag — a bag in which you keep your knitting, wool or yarn, needles and any other knitting equipment
  • krafft-ebing — Richard [rich-erd;; German rikh-ahrt] /ˈrɪtʃ ərd;; German ˈrɪx ɑrt/ (Show IPA), Baron von, 1840–1902, German neurologist and author of works on sexual pathology.
  • lark bunting — a finch, Calamospiza melanocorys, of the western U.S., the male of which is black with a large, white patch on each wing.
  • law-breaking — Law-breaking is any kind of illegal activity.
  • lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
  • library book — a book owned by a library
  • likeableness — Likeability.
  • linen basket — a basket or container with a lid in which you put your dirty clothes before washing them
  • make believe — the style or manner in which something is made; form; build.
  • make sb sick — disgust sb morally
  • make-believe — pretense, especially of an innocent or playful kind; feigning; sham: the make-believe of children playing.
  • mockingboard — (hardware)   A sound and speech board for the Apple II computer, on sale in 1978. See also zxnrbl.
  • paki-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked physical assaults upon Pakistani immigrants or people of Pakistani descent
  • pathbreaking — pertaining to blazing a trail or path.
  • payback time — Payback time is when someone has to take the consequences of what they have done in the past. You can use this expression to talk about good or bad consequences.
  • pereira bark — the bark of any of several South American trees belonging to the genus Geissospermum, of the dogbane family, especially that of G. vellosii, used in Brazil to allay fever.
  • piggybacking — on the back or shoulders: The little girl rode piggyback on her father.
  • quillai bark — soapbark (def 2).
  • reading book — a book for people who are learning to read, to help them become accustomed to looking at and understanding written words
  • ribbon snake — either of two long-tailed garter snakes, Thamnophis proximus or T. sauritus, of eastern and central North America, having a brownish body and yellow or orange stripes.
  • ribeye steak — a large beefsteak cut from the outer, or eye, side of the ribs.
  • rickenbacker — Edward Vernon ("Eddie") 1890–1973, U.S. aviator and aviation executive.
  • running back — an offensive back, as a halfback or fullback, whose principal role is advancing the ball by running with it on plays from scrimmage.
  • salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
  • savings bank — a bank that receives savings accounts only and pays interest to its depositors.
  • scrapbooking — hobby: collaging
  • shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
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