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13-letter words containing k, o, r, b

  • brest litovsk — former name (until 1921) of Brest.
  • bring to book — to reprimand or require (someone) to give an explanation of his conduct
  • broken-winded — suffering from heaves
  • brokenhearted — Someone who is brokenhearted is very sad and upset because they have had a serious disappointment.
  • brook lamprey — a jawless fish, Lampetra planeri, native to the European part of the Atlantic Ocean and the northwest Mediterranean
  • brooklyn park — city in SE Minn.: suburb of Minneapolis: pop. 67,000
  • brown hickory — a North American hickory tree, Carya glabra
  • bunko steerer — a swindler, especially a person who lures another to a gambling game to be cheated.
  • butcher block — designating or of a thick slab made by gluing together strips of hardwood, as maple or oak, used for counter and table tops, etc.
  • butter cookie — Cookery. a plain cookie whose chief ingredients are butter, flour, and sugar.
  • checkerblooms — Plural form of checkerbloom.
  • cinchona bark — the dried bark of any of a cinchona tree, which yields quinine and other medicinal alkaloids
  • coaster brake — a brake on a bicycle that engages when the pedals are turned in reverse
  • cockney bream — a young snapper fish
  • coloring book — A coloring book is a book of simple drawings which children can color in.
  • crayola books — (publication)   A humorous and/or disparaging term for the rainbow series of National Computer Security Center (NCSC) computer security standards. See also Orange Book.
  • cross-buttock — a wrestling throw in which the hips are used as a fulcrum to throw an opponent
  • double-decker — something with two decks, tiers, or the like, as two beds one above the other, a ship with two decks above the water line, or a bus with two decks.
  • doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
  • drink problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
  • exercise book — An exercise book is a small book that students use for writing in.
  • feedback form — A feedback form is a paper with questions on it and spaces marked where you should write the answers. It asks a hotel guest if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
  • for sb's sake — When you do something for someone's sake, you do it in order to help them or make them happy.
  • groundbreaker — a person who is an originator, innovator, or pioneer in a particular activity.
  • heartbrokenly — In a heartbroken manner.
  • homework club — an after-school club where students can stay to do their homework
  • honest broker — a neutral person or organization that mediates disputes; an impartial mediator.
  • horse-breaker — a person who breaks in a horse
  • housebreakers — Plural form of housebreaker.
  • housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
  • jack robinsonBill ("Bojangles") 1878–1949, U.S. tap dancer.
  • kennebunkport — a town in SW Maine: summer resort.
  • knickerbocker — a descendant of the Dutch settlers of New York.
  • know by heart — have memorized
  • komi republic — a constituent republic of NW Russia: annexed by the princes of Moscow in the 14th century. Capital: Syktyvkar. Pop: 1 019 000 (2002). Area: 415 900 sq km (160 540 sq miles)
  • labour market — When you talk about the labour market, you are referring to all the people who are able to work and want jobs in a country or area, in relation to the number of jobs there are available in that country or area.
  • labrador duck — an extinct sea duck, Camptorhynchus labradorius, of northern North America, having black and white plumage.
  • lubber's knot — an improperly made reef or square knot, likely to slip loose.
  • make or break — either completely successful or utterly disastrous: a make-or-break marketing policy.
  • make-or-break — either completely successful or utterly disastrous: a make-or-break marketing policy.
  • mock whipbird — an Australian bird, Pachycephala rufiventris, which is not of the whipbird family
  • monkey bridge — flying bridge.
  • mortise block — a block having a shell cut from a single piece of wood.
  • mountebankery — The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
  • neurofeedback — The presentation of realtime feedback on brainwave activity, as measured by sensors on the scalp, sometimes offered as a means of therapy.
  • nonshrinkable — incapable of being shrunk
  • overrun brake — a brake fitted to a trailer or other towed vehicle that prevents the towed vehicle travelling faster than the towing vehicle when slowing down or descending an incline
  • parker bowles — Camilla (née Shand). born 1947, became the second wife of Prince Charles in 2005; created Duchess of Cornwall and Duchess of Rothesay
  • parking orbit — a temporary orbit in which a spacecraft awaits the next phase of its mission.
  • pembrokeshire — a historic county in Dyfed, in SW Wales.
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