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12-letter words containing t, b, k

  • hiking boots — stout, sturdy boots, suitable for hiking in
  • hobble skirt — a woman's skirt that is very narrow at the bottom, causing the wearer to walk with short, mincing steps.
  • honey bucket — a container for excrement, as in an outdoor toilet.
  • impost block — dosseret.
  • in the black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
  • inkblot test — any of various psychological tests in which varied patterns formed by blots of ink are interpreted by the subject.
  • k/t boundary — Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: the time zone comprising the end of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Tertiary periods
  • keep tabs on — a small flap, strap, loop, or similar appendage, as on a garment, used for pulling, hanging, or decoration.
  • keyboardists — Plural form of keyboardist.
  • kit-cat club — a club of Whig wits, painters, politicians, and men of letters, including Robert Walpole, John Vanbrugh, William Congreve, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Godfrey Kneller, that flourished in London between 1703 and 1720.
  • kit-kat club — a club of Whig wits, painters, politicians, and men of letters, including Robert Walpole, John Vanbrugh, William Congreve, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Godfrey Kneller, that flourished in London between 1703 and 1720.
  • kite balloon — a barrage balloon intended for use in information-gathering and observation; it is usually tethered to the ground and has lobes to keep it stable and pointing into the wind
  • kiteboarding — A sport in which participants ride a form of wakeboard or surfboard harnessed to a large kite which is controlled by the rider.
  • klein bottle — a one-sided figure consisting of a tapered tube the narrow end of which is bent back, run through the side of the tube, and flared to join the wide end, thereby allowing any two points on the figure to be joined by an unbroken line.
  • knitting bag — a bag in which you keep your knitting, wool or yarn, needles and any other knitting equipment
  • krafft-ebing — Richard [rich-erd;; German rikh-ahrt] /ˈrɪtʃ ərd;; German ˈrɪx ɑrt/ (Show IPA), Baron von, 1840–1902, German neurologist and author of works on sexual pathology.
  • labor market — the available supply of labor considered with reference to the demand for it.
  • lake balaton — a large shallow lake in W Hungary. Area: 689 sq km (266 sq miles)
  • lambeth walk — a spirited ballroom dance popular, especially in England, in the late 1930s.
  • lamp bracket — a bracket for holding a lamp
  • lark bunting — a finch, Calamospiza melanocorys, of the western U.S., the male of which is black with a large, white patch on each wing.
  • leatherbacks — Plural form of leatherback.
  • left bracket — (character)   "[". ASCII character 91. Common: left square bracket; ITU-T: opening bracket; bracket. Rare: square; INTERCAL: U turn. Paired with right bracket ("]").
  • linen basket — a basket or container with a lid in which you put your dirty clothes before washing them
  • longboat key — a narrow barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico, SW of Florida, sheltering Sarasota Bay: sports fishing.
  • lumberjacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
  • lunch-bucket — a small container, usually of metal or plastic and with a handle, for carrying one's lunch from home to school or work.
  • make the bed — rearrange the bedsheets
  • market abuse — (in Britain) a statutory offence which covers insider trading and stock market manipulation
  • marketbasket — a selected list of goods and services, usually food and household items regarded as typifying consumer spending over a given time, used to measure the cost of living
  • master baker — a baker who is fully qualified to practise his trade and to train others in it
  • mental block — inability to recall
  • moses basket — wicker bed for a baby
  • mount kazbek — an extinct volcano in N Georgia in the central Caucasus Mountains. Height: 5047 m (16 558 ft)
  • mountebanked — Simple past tense and past participle of mountebank.
  • objectbroker — (programming)   A distributed object system from DEC based on the CORBA standard.
  • on the blink — to open and close the eye, especially involuntarily; wink rapidly and repeatedly.
  • on the block — for sale at auction
  • on the books — registered
  • pathbreaking — pertaining to blazing a trail or path.
  • pattern book — collection of textile motifs or designs
  • payback time — Payback time is when someone has to take the consequences of what they have done in the past. You can use this expression to talk about good or bad consequences.
  • picture book — a book consisting mainly or entirely of pictures, especially one for children who have not yet learned to read.
  • plinth block — a plinth interrupting a door or window architrave at the floor or ground level.
  • plunket baby — a baby brought up in infancy under the dietary recommendations of the Plunket Society
  • pork butcher — a butcher who specializes in pork
  • prebreakfast — occurring before breakfast, of or pertaining to the period before breakfast
  • quarterbacks — Plural form of quarterback.
  • receipt book — book containing receipt slips
  • rib-tickling — very amusing; funny or hilarious: a book of rib-tickling stories.
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