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11-letter words containing t, a, b, k

  • outer banks — chain of long, narrow, sandy islands, along the coast of N.C.
  • overblanket — a blanket that is placed on a bed on top of the other bedding
  • packability — The quality or state of being packable.
  • packet boat — a boat that travels a regular route, as along a coast or on a river, carrying passengers, freight, and mail
  • pathbreaker — a person who blazes a trail or path; pathfinder.
  • picket boat — a vessel used to patrol a harbor.
  • pitch-black — extremely black or dark as pitch: a pitch-black night.
  • plate block — a block of four or more stamps containing the number or numbers of the printing plate or plates in the margin of the sheet.
  • point-blank — aimed or fired straight at the mark especially from close range; direct.
  • quarterback — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
  • ration book — a book showing an individual's entitlement to certain rationed goods
  • report back — If you report back to someone, you tell them about something that they asked you to find out about.
  • rock beauty — a gold and black butterflyfish, Holocanthus tricolor, ranging from the West Indies to Brazil.
  • rock rabbit — rock hyrax.
  • scratchback — an implement for scratching the back
  • skatemobile — a scooterlike vehicle built of boxes, boards, or the like, and mounted on skate wheels.
  • slate black — a slightly purplish black.
  • snack table — a small portable folding table used for an individual serving.
  • stickleback — any of the small, pugnacious, spiny-backed fishes of the family Gasterosteidae, inhabiting northern fresh waters and sea inlets, the male of which builds and guards the nest.
  • strike back — retaliate
  • subtacksman — a renter who holds the property they rent by subletting it
  • sucker bait — an enticement calculated to lure a person into a scheme in which he or she may be victimized.
  • svarabhakti — the process of inserting vowel sounds into a consonant cluster, as in a loanword to make it conform to the pattern of the speaker's language and, hence, more easily pronounceable, as in the Italian pronunciation [lahn-tsee-ke-nek-kaw] /ˌlɑn tsi kɛˈnɛk kɔ/ (Show IPA) for German Landsknecht [lahnts-knekht] /ˈlɑntsˌknɛxt/ (Show IPA).
  • table stake — a stake that a player places on the table at the beginning of a game that may not be changed once the deal begins.
  • take a bath — a washing or immersion of something, especially the body, in water, steam, etc., as for cleansing or medical treatment: I take a bath every day. Give the dog a bath.
  • taken aback — toward the back.
  • talkability — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
  • tanbark oak — any oak that yields tanbark, especially an evergreen oak, Lithocarpus densiflora, of the Pacific coast of North America.
  • tankbusting — the practice of destroying tanks
  • tax bracket — a category of taxpayer which is based on how high or low their income is
  • telebanking — a facility enabling customers to make use of banking services by means of a computer network
  • tie-breaker — competition: sth that resolves a draw
  • to be frank — You can say 'to be frank' or 'to be frank with you' to introduce a statement which is your honest opinion, especially when the person you are talking to might not like it.
  • track brake — a mechanism that slows or stops a vehicle by pressing against the track rather than the wheels.
  • travel book — a book about travelling to a certain country or region, esp a guidebook
  • trunk cabin — a cabin of a yacht that presents a long, low profile with a relatively unbroken line fore and aft. Compare doghouse (def 2).
  • unbracketed — not bracketed; not enclosed by brackets; not connected together by brackets
  • unthinkable — inconceivable; unimaginable: the unthinkable size of the universe.
  • untrackable — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
  • walkability — capable of being traveled, crossed, or covered by walking: a walkable road; a walkable distance.
  • wastebasket — a standing basket for wastepaper, small items of trash, etc.
  • wet blanket — person: spoilsport
  • wet-blanket — to extinguish (a fire) with a wet blanket.
  • work basket — a basket for holding sewing equipment
  • workability — practicable or feasible: He needs a workable schedule.
  • workbaskets — Plural form of workbasket.
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