12-letter words containing t, b, k
- bradykinetic — slowness of movement, as found, for example, in Parkinson's disease.
- brake assist — a part of a vehicle's braking system that automatically boosts braking pressure in an emergency situation
- bread basket — If an area or region is described as the bread basket of a country, it provides a lot of the food for that country because crops grow very easily there. It therefore produces wealth for the country.
- bread-basket — a basket or similar container for bread or rolls.
- breakthrough — A breakthrough is an important development or achievement.
- breakweather — any makeshift shelter.
- breaststroke — Breaststroke is a swimming stroke which you do lying on your front, moving your arms and legs horizontally in a circular motion.
- breathtaking — If you say that something is breathtaking, you are emphasizing that it is extremely beautiful or amazing.
- bright spark — If you say that some bright spark had a particular idea or did something, you mean that their idea or action was clever, or that it seemed clever but was silly in some way.
- broken heart — If you say that someone has a broken heart, you mean that they are very sad, for example because a love affair has ended unhappily.
- broken water — a patch of water whose surface is rippled or choppy, usually surrounded by relatively calm water.
- brush turkey — any of several gallinaceous birds, esp Alectura lathami, of New Guinea and Australia, having a black plumage: family Megapodidae (megapodes)
- buck private — a common soldier
- buck's party — a party for men only, esp one held for a man before he is married
- bucket about — (esp of a boat in a storm) to toss or shake violently
- bucket bench — a Pennsylvania Dutch dresser having a lower portion closed with doors for milk pails, an open shelf for water pails, and an upper section with shallow drawers.
- bucket truck — a truck with an attached aerial lift or movable boom.
- buffer stock — a stock of a commodity built up by a government or trade organization with the object of using it to stabilize prices
- bullock cart — a cart pulled by one or two bullocks
- bushelbasket — a rounded basket with a capacity of one bushel
- butter knife — a knife, often with a curved tip, used for picking up butter at a table
- cabinetmaker — A cabinetmaker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
- caked breast — a painful hardening of one or more lobules of a lactating breast, caused by stagnation of milk in the secreting ducts and accumulation of blood in the expanded veins; stagnation mastitis.
- carrick bitt — either of a pair of strong posts used for supporting a windlass
- cavity block — a precast concrete block that contains a cavity or cavities
- central bank — a national bank that does business mainly with a government and with other banks: it regulates the volume and cost of credit
- chapter book — a children's book, typically a work of fiction, of moderate length and complexity, divided into chapters and intended for readers approximately seven to ten years old
- click beetle — any beetle of the family Elateridae, which have the ability to right themselves with a snapping movement when placed on their backs
- clickability — (computing) The quality of being clickable, of causing a particular action when clicked.
- cock lobster — a male lobster
- cocktail bar — a bar which serves cocktails
- combat knife — a large knife for military use
- come back to — If you come back to a topic or point, you talk about it again later.
- control knob — a knob on an electrical or electronic appliance for regulating heat, volume, etc
- cricket ball — the ball used to play cricket
- crookes tube — a type of cathode-ray tube in which the electrons are produced by a glow discharge in a low-pressure gas
- cyberattacks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cyberattack.
- cyberstalker — (Internet) A stalker who operates online.
- double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
- double truck — Typesetting. a chase for holding the type for a center spread, especially for a newspaper.
- double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
- drinkability — The state or property of being drinkable.
- featherbacks — Plural form of featherback.
- fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
- fruit basket — a basket containing a variety of fruits sent as a gift
- futtock band — a metal band around a lower mast somewhat below the top, for holding the lower ends of a futtock shroud.
- go walkabout — to wander through the bush
- hack to bits — to damage severely
- hark back to — recall: earlier era
- heartbreaker — a person, event, or thing causing heartbreak.