16-letter words containing k, o, b
- modersohn-becker — Paula [pou-lah] /ˈpaʊ lɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1907, German painter.
- morris plan bank — a private banking organization, formerly common in the U.S., designed primarily to grant small loans to industrial workers.
- nagorno-karabakh — a region in SW Azerbaijan: residents mostly Armenian. 1700 sq. mi. (4400 sq. km).
- network database — (database) A kind of database management system in which each record type can have multiple owners, e.g. orders are owned by both customers and products. This contrasts with a hierarchical database (one owner) or relational database (no explicit owner).
- observation deck — an area on a high building that is surrounded with railings or fencing and which provides panoramic views
- on the back foot — at a disadvantage; outmanoeuvred or outclassed by an opponent
- one for the book — a handwritten or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.
- pocket billiards — pool2 (def 1).
- proboscis monkey — a reddish, arboreal monkey, Nasalis larvatus, of Borneo, the male of which has a long, flexible nose: an endangered species.
- rack one's brain — If you rack your brains, you try very hard to think of something.
- rainbow lorikeet — a small Australasian parrot, Trichoglossus haematodus, with brightly-coloured plumage
- razor-billed auk — a black and white auk, Alca torda, of the American and European coasts of the northern North Atlantic, having a compressed black bill encircled by a white band.
- redbank whiteoak — a city in S Tennessee.
- rock creek butte — a mountain in NE Oregon: highest peak in the Blue Mountains. 9106 feet (2777 meters).
- round lake beach — a town in NE Illinois.
- run the blockade — to go past or through a blockade
- scotch blackface — one of a Scottish breed of mountain sheep having a black face and growing long, coarse wool.
- scribbling block — scratch pad.
- sharpe's grysbok — either of two small, usually solitary antelopes of southern Africa, Raphicerus melanotis, or R. sharpei (Sharpe's grysbok) having a light to dark reddish-brown coat speckled with white.
- slap on the back — to congratulate
- stockbroker belt — The stockbroker belt is an area outside a city, especially London, where rich people who travel to work in the city live.
- symbolical books — the books containing the creeds, beliefs, or doctrine of religious groups that have emerged since the Reformation
- take the trouble — If you take the trouble to do something, you do something which requires a small amount of additional effort.
- the black forest — a hilly wooded region of SW Germany, in Baden-Württemberg: a popular resort area
- to break the ice — If you break the ice at a party or meeting, or in a new situation, you say or do something to make people feel relaxed and comfortable.
- to pass the buck — If you pass the buck, you refuse to accept responsibility for something, and say that someone else is responsible.
- to rock the boat — If you say that someone is rocking the boat, you mean that they are upsetting a calm situation and causing trouble.
- tool builder kit — (tool) (TBK) A product from IPSYS which allows users to develop CASE tools appropriate to any software engineering methodology.
- unpublished work — a literary work that has not been reproduced for sale or publicly distributed.
- world bank group — the collective name for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Finance Corporation, and the International Development Association, whose headquarters are all in Washington