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

  • picture book — a book consisting mainly or entirely of pictures, especially one for children who have not yet learned to read.
  • piggybacking — on the back or shoulders: The little girl rode piggyback on her father.
  • pillow block — a cast-iron or steel block for supporting a journal or bearing.
  • plinth block — a plinth interrupting a door or window architrave at the floor or ground level.
  • public works — government-funded construction
  • receipt book — book containing receipt slips
  • rib-tickling — very amusing; funny or hilarious: a book of rib-tickling stories.
  • rickenbackerEdward Vernon ("Eddie") 1890–1973, U.S. aviator and aviation executive.
  • rock bunting — a seed-eating songbird, Emberiza cia
  • rock climber — sb who scales mountains
  • rubik's cube — a puzzle consisting of a cube with colored faces made of 26 smaller colored blocks attached to a spindle in the center, the object being to rotate the blocks until each face of the cube is a single color.
  • 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.
  • scrapbooking — hobby: collaging
  • service book — a book containing the forms of worship used in divine services.
  • spinal block — spinal anesthesia.
  • stackability — capable of being stacked, especially easily: stackable chairs.
  • stickability — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
  • sticky blood — a condition of the blood, particularly associated with Hughes syndrome, in which antibodies tend to adhere to platelets and glue them together, leading to an increased likelihood of clotting
  • stockbroking — business of buying and selling stock
  • ticket booth — kiosk: sells tickets
  • trackability — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
  • van riebeeck — Jan, full name Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck. 1619–77, Dutch colonial administrator. Founder of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope (1652)
  • wildcat bank — a bank that issued notes without adequate security in the period before the establishment of the national banking system in 1864.
  • wrecking bar — pinch bar.
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