12-letter words containing k
- blockbusting — A blockbusting film or book is one that is very successful, usually because it is very exciting.
- blocked shoe — a dancing shoe with a stiffened toe that enables a ballet dancer to dance on the tips of the toes
- bloodsucking — any animal that sucks blood, especially a leech.
- blue-sky law — a state law regulating the trading of securities: intended to protect investors from fraud
- bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
- boating lake — a lake in a park where rowing boats can be hired
- bobbery pack — a mixed pack of hunting dogs, often not belonging to any of the hound breeds
- boilermaking — metal-working in heavy industry; plating or welding
- bolshevikism — the doctrines, methods, or procedure of the Bolsheviks.
- boning knife — a small kitchen knife having a narrow blade for boning meat or fish.
- book burning — the destruction of writings of which the subject, the view of the author, or the like is considered politically or socially objectionable: used as a means of censorship or oppression.
- book matches — safety matches made of paper and fastened into a small cardboard folder
- book of odes — a collection of 305 poems compiled in the 6th century b.c. by Confucius.
- book signing — a prearranged and publicized event at which an author signs copies of their latest book, often with individual dedications to purchasers
- book society — book club.
- book-keeping — the skill or occupation of maintaining accurate records of business transactions
- bookcrossing — the practice of deliberately leaving books in places where they will be found and read by other people
- booking form — a form used to book a holiday, accommodation, etc
- booklet pane — Philately. any of a number of panes or small pages of postage stamps, stapled together into a booklet for the convenience of users.
- boskop skull — a portion of a human skull found in South Africa, of undetermined relationship and geological age: formerly associated with a hypothetical Boskop race
- bottom break — a branch coming from the bottom of a plant stem, usually formed by pinching and disbudding.
- bottom quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 4.7 to 5.3 GeV/c2, a negative charge that is 1⁄3 the charge of an electron, zero charm, and zero strangeness
- bourke-white — Margaret. 1906–71, US photographer, a pioneer of modern photojournalism: noted esp for her coverage of World War II
- bracket foot — a corner foot of a chest or the like joining the sides in a concave line.
- bracket lamp — a wall light that is attached to the wall by a bracket
- bradykinesia — abnormal slowness of physical movement, esp as an effect of Parkinson's disease
- bradykinetic — slowness of movement, as found, for example, in Parkinson's disease.
- brain-picker — the act of obtaining information or ideas by questioning another person.
- brake assist — a part of a vehicle's braking system that automatically boosts braking pressure in an emergency situation
- brake lining — a curved thin strip of an asbestos composition riveted to a brake shoe to provide it with a renewable surface
- 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.
- break a leg! — good luck!
- break ground — to do something that has not been done before
- break of day — dawn; daybreak.
- breakdancing — a type of vigorous dance
- breaker card — the first card in the carding process, used to open the raw stock and to convert it into sliver form.
- breaker zone — the area offshore where waves break, between the outermost breaker and the limit of wave uprush; the zone within which waves approaching the coastline start breaking, usually in water depths of 16 to 32 feet (5 to 10 meters).
- 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.
- breckinridge — John Cabell1821-75; vice president of the U.S. (1857-61); Confederate general
- breeze block — a cinder block.
- breeze-block — A breeze-block is a large, grey brick made from ashes and cement.
- brick cheese — a ripened, semisoft American cheese shaped like a brick and containing many small holes
- brick veneer — (in Australia) a timber-framed house with a brick exterior
- brickfielder — a hot wind in parts of Australia, originally applied to a wind which blew over Sydney carrying dust from the neighbouring Brickfields sand hills
- 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.
- brinkmanship — Brinkmanship is a method of behaviour, especially in politics, in which you deliberately get into dangerous situations which could result in disaster but which could also bring success.