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

  • braddock hills — a town in SE Pennsylvania.
  • breakfast time — Breakfast time is the period of the morning when most people have their breakfast.
  • breaking point — If something or someone has reached breaking point, they have so many problems or difficulties that they can no longer cope with them, and may soon collapse or be unable to continue.
  • breathtakingly — thrillingly beautiful, remarkable, astonishing, exciting, or the like: a breathtaking performance.
  • bucket brigade — a line of persons passing buckets of water along in trying to put out a fire
  • cable trunking — Cable trunking is an enclosure usually with a rectangular cross section, and with one removable or hinged side, that is used to protect cables and provide space for other electrical equipment.
  • casino banking — an approach to banking which risks losing investors' money in the quest for maximizing profits
  • chicken breast — pigeon breast
  • cocktail table — a low table as for serving refreshments, esp. one in a living room
  • crow blackbird — any of several North American grackles, especially purple grackles of the genus Quiscalus.
  • custodian bank — A custodian bank is a bank that holds customer assets in safety.
  • defensive back — a defender positioned off the line of scrimmage for the purpose of covering pass receivers and tackling runners who elude linemen and linebackers.
  • disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
  • double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
  • double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
  • drinks cabinet — a cocktail cabinet
  • groundbreaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
  • hanging basket — suspended woven container for plants
  • inboard brakes — Inboard brakes are brakes located close to the center of the vehicle rather than at the wheel hub.
  • income bracket — a group or category of people whose income falls within defined upper and lower levels
  • interbank rate — The interbank rate is the interest rate that banks charge each other.
  • interblock gap — the area or space separating consecutive blocks of data or consecutive physical records on an external storage medium.
  • into the black — into a profitable condition financially
  • khirbet qumran — an archaeological site in W Jordan, near the NW coast of the Dead Sea: Dead Sea Scrolls found here 1947.
  • kick the habit — quit smoking
  • king of beasts — the lion.
  • kuznetsk basin — an industrial region in the S Russian Federation in Asia: coal fields.
  • lake maracaibo — a lake in NW Venezuela, linked with the Gulf of Venezuela by a dredged channel: centre of the Venezuelan and South American oil industry. Area: about 13 000 sq km (500 sq miles)
  • lake winnebago — a lake in E Wisconsin, fed and drained by the Fox river: the largest lake in the state. Area: 557 sq km (215 sq miles)
  • library ticket — a ticket admitting a person access to a library, esp a reference library
  • make a bargain — to agree on terms
  • mashie niblick — a club with an iron head whose face has more slope than a mashie but less slope than a pitcher.
  • okavango basin — a river in SW central Africa, rising in central Angola and flowing southeast, then east as part of the border between Angola and Namibia, then southeast across the Caprivi Strip into Botswana to form a great marsh known as the Okavango Basin, Delta or Swamp. Length: about 1600 km (1000 miles)
  • payback period — the period in which money owed, debts, etc, have to be paid back
  • paying-in book — a book for keeping a record of money deposited into an account
  • phi beta kappa — a national honor society, founded in 1776, whose members are chosen, for lifetime membership, usually from among college undergraduates of high academic distinction.
  • pipeline break — (architecture)   (Or "pipeline stall") The delay caused on a processor using pipelines when a transfer of control is taken. Normally when a control-transfer instruction (a branch, conditional branch, call or trap) is taken, any following instructions which have been loaded into the processor's pipeline must be discarded or "flushed" and new instructions loaded from the branch destination. This introduces a delay before the processor can resume execution. "Delayed control-transfer" is a technique used to reduce this effect.
  • platinum black — a black powder consisting of very finely divided metallic platinum, used as a catalyst, especially in organic synthesis.
  • poikiloblastic — (of metamorphic rocks) having small grains of one mineral embedded in metacrysts of another mineral.
  • quarterbacking — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
  • re-embarkation — the act of boarding a ship or aircraft again
  • removable disk — removable hard disk
  • retail banking — banking for individual customers
  • sakha republic — an administrative division in E Russia, in NE Siberia on the Arctic Ocean: the coldest inhabited region of the world; it has rich mineral resources. Capital: Yakutsk. Pop: 948 100 (2002). Area: 3 103 200 sq km (1 197 760 sq miles)
  • shabby-looking — appearing old and in bad condition
  • shooting brake — station wagon.
  • siberian husky — one of a Siberian breed of medium-size dogs having a thick, soft coat, raised originally as sled dogs.
  • skilled labour — labour or work that demands skill and which you usually have to be trained for, or the workers that provide this labour
  • skin and bones — a condition or state of extreme thinness, usually the result of malnutrition; emaciation: Anorexia had reduced her to skin and bones.
  • skirting board — fabric for making skirts.
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