14-letter words containing k, a, s, b
- bletheranskate — a blatherer
- blister-packed — presented in a blister pack
- block capitals — Block capitals are simple capital letters that are not decorated in any way.
- block sampling — the selection of a corpus for statistical literary analysis by random selection of a starting point and consideration of the continuous passage following it
- bracket fungus — any saprotroph or parasitic fungus of the basidiomycetous family Polyporaceae, growing as a shelflike mass (bracket) from tree trunks and producing spores in vertical tubes in the bracket
- braddock hills — a town in SE Pennsylvania.
- bras d'or lake — an arm of the Atlantic Ocean in the center Cape Breton Island, in Nova Scotia, Canada. 360 sq. mi. (930 sq. km).
- brass knuckles — linked metal rings or a metal bar with holes for the fingers, worn for rough fighting
- break of serve — the act or instance of breaking an opponent's service
- break the news — announce sth
- breakfast club — a service that provides a breakfast for children who arrive early at school
- breakfast food — any prepared cereal for breakfast
- breakfast room — a room set aside for serving and eating breakfast, esp in a hotel or guesthouse
- breakfast show — a radio or television broadcast that airs around breakfast time
- breakfast time — Breakfast time is the period of the morning when most people have their breakfast.
- bulk transport — the transport of large quantities of goods or commodities in lorries, ships, or by rail
- buyer's market — When there is a buyer's market for a particular product, there are more of the products for sale than there are people who want to buy them, so buyers have a lot of choice and can make prices come down.
- buyers' market — a market in which goods and services are plentiful and prices relatively low.
- casino banking — an approach to banking which risks losing investors' money in the quest for maximizing profits
- chesapeake bay — the largest inlet of the Atlantic in the coast of the US: bordered by Maryland and Virginia
- chicken breast — pigeon breast
- clothes basket — a basket for storing and transporting clothes that need washing, or have been washed
- 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.
- drinks cabinet — a cocktail cabinet
- dumbarton oaks — an estate in the District of Columbia: site of conferences held to discuss proposals for creation of the United Nations, August–October, 1944.
- get one's back — situated at or in the rear: at the back door; back fence.
- hanging basket — suspended woven container for plants
- horseshoe back — a bow back having a slight outward splay at its bottom.
- inboard brakes — Inboard brakes are brakes located close to the center of the vehicle rather than at the wheel hub.
- kabalega falls — rapids on the lower Victoria Nile, about 35 km (22 miles) east of Lake Albert, where the Nile drops 120 m (400 ft)
- keep sb amused — If you keep someone amused, you find things to do which stop them getting bored.
- king of beasts — the lion.
- know backwards — to understand completely
- knowledge base — (artificial intelligence) A collection of knowledge expressed using some formal knowledge representation language. A knowledge base forms part of a knowledge-based system (KBS).
- kuznetsk basin — an industrial region in the S Russian Federation in Asia: coal fields.
- lake athabaska — a lake in W Canada, in NW Saskatchewan and NE Alberta. Area: about 7770 sq km (3000 sq miles)
- laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
- leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
- make a stab at — to make an attempt at
- make one's bed — a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
- marketableness — The state or quality of being marketable.
- mashie niblick — a club with an iron head whose face has more slope than a mashie but less slope than a pitcher.
- megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
- naval barracks — a place where people in the Navy live
- 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)
- paddock-basher — a vehicle suited to driving on rough terrain
- peck's bad boy — the mischievous boy in a series of newspaper stories and collected volumes by the American newspaperman and humorist George Wilbur Peck (1840–1916).
- poikiloblastic — (of metamorphic rocks) having small grains of one mineral embedded in metacrysts of another mineral.