12-letter words containing k, a, b, i
- biker jacket — a short, close-fitting leather jacket with zips and studs, often worn by motorcyclists
- birket karun — a lake in N Egypt. 25 miles (40 km) long; about 5 miles (8 km) wide; 90 sq. mi. (233 sq. km).
- bismarck sea — an arm of the Pacific Ocean north of New Britain and north-east of New Guinea
- bitter lakes — two lakes, the Great Bitter Lake and Little Bitter Lake in NE Egypt: part of the Suez Canal
- black acacia — a tall Australian tree, Acacia melanoxylon, of the legume family, having cream-yellow flowers and yielding a very light wood.
- black africa — Black Africa is the part of Africa to the south of the Sahara Desert.
- black friday — the day after the US Thanksgiving Day in late November, regarded as the start of the Christmas shopping season
- black heroin — a very potent and addictive form of heroin that is dark-colored.
- black knight — a person or firm that makes an unwelcome takeover bid for a company
- black liquor — (in making wood pulp for paper) the liquor that remains after digestion.
- 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 prince — Edward2 (Prince of Wales)
- 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.
- blackbirding — a common European thrush, Turdus merula, the male of which is black with a yellow bill.
- blatherskite — a talkative silly person
- 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 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.
- boating lake — a lake in a park where rowing boats can be hired
- boilermaking — metal-working in heavy industry; plating or welding
- bradykinesia — abnormal slowness of physical movement, esp as an effect of Parkinson's disease
- bradykinetic — slowness of movement, as found, for example, in Parkinson's disease.
- brain-picker — the act of obtaining information or ideas by questioning another person.
- brake assist — a part of a vehicle's braking system that automatically boosts braking pressure in an emergency situation
- brake lining — a curved thin strip of an asbestos composition riveted to a brake shoe to provide it with a renewable surface
- breakdancing — a type of vigorous dance
- breathtaking — If you say that something is breathtaking, you are emphasizing that it is extremely beautiful or amazing.
- bright spark — If you say that some bright spark had a particular idea or did something, you mean that their idea or action was clever, or that it seemed clever but was silly in some way.
- brinkmanship — Brinkmanship is a method of behaviour, especially in politics, in which you deliberately get into dangerous situations which could result in disaster but which could also bring success.
- buck private — a common soldier
- bulk carrier — a ship that carries unpackaged cargo, usually consisting of a single dry commodity, such as coal or grain
- burj khalifa — a slender tapering skyscraper in Dubai; completed in 2009; the world's tallest man-made structure, standing at 828m (2716 ft)
- burkina faso — an inland republic in W Africa: dominated by Mossi kingdoms (10th–19th centuries); French protectorate established in 1896; became an independent republic in 1960; consists mainly of a flat savanna plateau. Official language: French; Mossi and other African languages also widely spoken. Religion: mostly animist, with a large Muslim minority. Currency: franc. Capital: Ouagadougou. Pop: 17 812 961 (2013 est). Area: 273 200 sq km (105 900 sq miles)
- bushwhacking — to make one's way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc.
- by-a-whisker — whiskers, a beard.
- cabinetmaker — A cabinetmaker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
- carrick bend — type of knot
- carrick bitt — either of a pair of strong posts used for supporting a windlass
- cavity block — a precast concrete block that contains a cavity or cavities
- clickability — (computing) The quality of being clickable, of causing a particular action when clicked.
- cocktail bar — a bar which serves cocktails
- combat knife — a large knife for military use
- cork cambium — a layer of meristematic cells in the cortex of the stems and roots of woody plants, the outside of which gives rise to cork cells and the inside to secondary cortical cells (phelloderm)
- crackbrained — insane, idiotic, or crazy
- cricket ball — the ball used to play cricket
- diamondbacks — Plural form of diamondback.
- disembarking — Present participle of disembark.
- drinkability — The state or property of being drinkable.