13-letter words containing a, b, k
- mountebankery — The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
- mountebanking — Present participle of mountebank.
- national bank — a bank chartered by the U.S. government and formerly authorized to issue notes that served as money.
- necklace bomb — a bomb consisting of linked charges hung around a victim's neck, used by terrorists or in hostage situations
- neurofeedback — The presentation of realtime feedback on brainwave activity, as measured by sensors on the scalp, sometimes offered as a means of therapy.
- news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
- nonshrinkable — incapable of being shrunk
- on one's back — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
- 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
- pannikin boss — an overseer of a small group of workers; person with minor authority.
- 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 brake — emergency brake.
- parking orbit — a temporary orbit in which a spacecraft awaits the next phase of its mission.
- pass the buck — Poker. any object in the pot that reminds the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
- path-breaking — very original; ground-breaking
- peruvian bark — cinchona (def 2).
- picnic basket — woven container for carrying food outdoors
- piggyback car — a flatcar designed to accommodate containers or highway truck trailers.
- pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
- playback head — the part of a tape recorder that is used to pick up the magnetic pattern on tape in order to play back material previously recorded.
- pollen basket — (of bees) a smooth area on the hind tibia of each leg fringed with long hairs and serving to transport pollen.
- pork-barreler — a politician, especially a senator or member of Congress who is party to or benefits from a pork barrel.
- price bracket — a notional range of prices which consumers are prepared to pay for a good
- quarterbacked — Simple past tense and past participle of quarterback.
- rabbit-killer — a rabbit punch.
- rainbow snake — a burrowing snake, Farancia erytrogramma, of the southeastern U.S., having red and black stripes along the body, a red and yellow underside, and a sharp-tipped tail used in maneuvering prey.
- remarkability — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
- rib eye steak — a large beefsteak cut from the outer, or eye, side of the ribs.
- rib-eye steak — a large beefsteak cut from the outer, or eye, side of the ribs.
- right bracket — (character) "]". ASCII character 93. Common names: right square bracket; ITU-T: closing bracket; unbracket. Rare: unsquare; INTERCAL: U turn back. Paired with left bracket.
- road-blocking — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
- roanoke bells — a wild plant, Mertensia virginica, of the borage family, native to the eastern U.S., grown as a garden plant for its handsome, nodding clusters of blue flowers.
- rock barnacle — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
- rock the boat — to move or sway to and fro or from side to side.
- rub' al khali — a desert in S Arabia, mainly in Saudi Arabia, extending southeast from Nejd to Hadramaut and northeast from Yemen to the United Arab Emirates. Area: about 777 000 sq km (300 000 sq miles)
- rub` al khali — a desert in S Arabia, N of Hadhramaut and extending from Yemen to Oman. About 250,000 sq. mi. (647,500 sq. km).
- run on a bank — A run on a bank is a situation in which borrowers are worried that the bank will fail and they all try to withdraw money at the same time.
- saddle-backed — having the back or upper surface curved like a saddle.
- saleleaseback — leaseback.
- sawbuck table — a table that has X -shaped legs.
- sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
- service break — an instance of a player winning a game against a server.
- sewing basket — box for sewing accessories
- shark biscuit — a bodyboard
- skateboarding — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
- sketchability — the suitability for being sketched
- skilled labor — labor that requires special training for its satisfactory performance.
- skin and bone — You can say someone is just skin and bone when you do not approve of the fact that they are very thin.
- skunk cabbage — a low, fetid, broad-leaved North American plant, Symplocarpus foetidus, of the arum family, having a brownish-purple and green mottled spathe surrounding a stout spadix, growing in moist ground.
- smoke chamber — an enlarged area between the throat of a fireplace and the chimney flue.