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

  • basket chair — a chair made of wickerwork; a wicker chair
  • basket maker — a member of an early Native American people of the southwestern US, preceding the Pueblo people, known for skill in basket-making
  • basketballer — (informal) A basketball player; a person who plays basketball.
  • basketweaver — a person who advocates simple, natural, and unsophisticated living
  • battery-parkThe, a park at the S end of Manhattan, in New York City.
  • battle creek — a city in S Michigan.
  • bearskin rug — the pelt of a bear, used as a rug
  • beaten track — well-trodden path or route
  • beauty quark — bottom quark
  • beggar-ticks — any of various plants, such as the bur marigold and tick trefoil, having fruits or seeds that cling to clothing, fur, etc
  • ben franklin — Aretha [uh-ree-thuh] /əˈri θə/ (Show IPA), born 1942, U.S. singer.
  • benchmarking — In business, benchmarking is a process in which a company compares its products and methods with those of the most successful companies in its field, in order to try to improve its own performance.
  • beta blocker — A beta blocker is a drug which is used to treat people who have high blood pressure or heart problems.
  • beta-blocker — any of various substances that interfere with the action of the beta receptors: used primarily to reduce the heart rate or force in the prevention, management, or treatment of angina, hypertension, or arrythmias.
  • bhakti-marga — any of the three ways to salvation, which are those of devotion to certain gods (bhakti-marga) of study (jnana-marga) and of actions (karma-marga)
  • bicycle rack — a metal frame for securing bicycles when they are not in use
  • 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 africa — Black Africa is the part of Africa to the south of the Sahara Desert.
  • black bryony — a climbing herbaceous Eurasian plant, Tamus communis, having small greenish flowers and poisonous red berries: family Dioscoreaceae
  • black butter — beurre noir.
  • black cherry — a tree of the species Prunus serotina, having a small fleshy rounded edible fruit containing a hard stone
  • black copper — a regulus of 95-percent-pure copper, produced in a blast furnace by smelting oxidized copper ores.
  • black forest — wooded mountain region in SW Germany
  • black friday — the day after the US Thanksgiving Day in late November, regarded as the start of the Christmas shopping season
  • black grouse — a large N European grouse, Lyrurus tetrix, the male of which has a bluish-black plumage and lyre-shaped tail
  • black heroin — a very potent and addictive form of heroin that is dark-colored.
  • black letter — a kind of heavy-faced, ornamental printing type
  • black liquor — (in making wood pulp for paper) the liquor that remains after digestion.
  • black market — If something is bought or sold on the black market, it is bought or sold illegally.
  • black papers — unofficial papers criticizing government policy
  • black pepper — Black pepper is pepper which is dark in colour and has been made from the dried berries of the pepper plant, including their black outer cases.
  • black pewter — pewter composed of 60 percent tin and 40 percent lead.
  • black poplar — a Eurasian tree, Populus nigra
  • black powder — gunpowder as used in sports involving modern muzzleloading firearms
  • black prince — Edward2 (Prince of Wales)
  • black scoter — a scoter of Eurasia and North America, Melanitta nigra, the adult male of which is black.
  • black spruce — a coniferous tree, Picea mariana, of the northern regions of North America, growing mostly in cold bogs and having dark green needles
  • black stream — a warm ocean current in the Pacific, flowing N along the E coast of Taiwan, NE along the E coast of Japan, and continuing in an easterly direction into the open Pacific.
  • black sucker — a hog sucker, Hypentelium nigricans, of eastern U.S. streams.
  • 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.
  • black-market — to black-marketeer.
  • blackbirding — a common European thrush, Turdus merula, the male of which is black with a yellow bill.
  • blackcurrant — In Europe, blackcurrants are a type of very small, dark purple fruits that grow in bunches on bushes.
  • blackhearted — wicked; evil
  • bladder kelp — any of various giant brown algae with air bladders that buoy up the leafy portions
  • bladderwrack — any of several seaweeds of the genera Fucus and Ascophyllum, esp F. vesiculosus, that grow in the intertidal regions of rocky shores and have branched brown fronds with air bladders
  • blanket roll — a blanket or sleeping bag rolled into a cylindrical pack for easy carrying and outdoor use by hikers, soldiers, cowboys, etc., often with cooking utensils, food, and personal articles carried inside.
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