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12-letter words containing b, a, r, k

  • blatherskite — a talkative silly person
  • bletherskate — a blatherer
  • blister pack — a type of packet in which small items are displayed and sold, consisting of a transparent dome of plastic or similar material mounted on a firm backing such as cardboard
  • block heater — an electrically operated immersion heater fitted either to enter the water hose or the water jacket surrounding the cylinder block of a motor to warm the coolant in cold weather.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • broken arrow — a town in NE Oklahoma.
  • 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.
  • brooks range — a mountain range in N Alaska. Highest peak: Mount Isto, 2761 m (9058 ft)
  • brooks's law — (programming)   "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later" - a result of the fact that the expected advantage from splitting work among N programmers is O(N) (that is, proportional to N), but the complexity and communications cost associated with coordinating and then merging their work is O(N^2) (that is, proportional to the square of N). The quote is from Fred Brooks, a manager of IBM's OS/360 project and author of "The Mythical Man-Month". The myth in question has been most tersely expressed as "Programmer time is fungible" and Brooks established conclusively that it is not. Hackers have never forgotten his advice; too often, management still does. See also creationism, second-system effect, optimism.
  • brown canker — a fungous disease of roses, characterized by leaf and flower lesions, stem cankers surrounded by a reddish-purple border, and dieback.
  • brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
  • buck private — a common soldier
  • buck's party — a party for men only, esp one held for a man before he is married
  • bulk carrier — a ship that carries unpackaged cargo, usually consisting of a single dry commodity, such as coal or grain
  • bullock cart — a cart pulled by one or two bullocks
  • burj khalifa — a slender tapering skyscraper in Dubai; completed in 2009; the world's tallest man-made structure, standing at 828m (2716 ft)
  • burkina faso — an inland republic in W Africa: dominated by Mossi kingdoms (10th–19th centuries); French protectorate established in 1896; became an independent republic in 1960; consists mainly of a flat savanna plateau. Official language: French; Mossi and other African languages also widely spoken. Religion: mostly animist, with a large Muslim minority. Currency: franc. Capital: Ouagadougou. Pop: 17 812 961 (2013 est). Area: 273 200 sq km (105 900 sq miles)
  • by-a-whisker — whiskers, a beard.
  • 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.
  • carbon black — a black finely divided form of amorphous carbon produced by incomplete combustion of natural gas or petroleum: used to reinforce rubber and in the manufacture of pigments and ink
  • career break — If someone takes a career break, they stop working in their particular profession for a period of time, with the intention of returning to it later.
  • carrick bend — type of knot
  • carrick bitt — either of a pair of strong posts used for supporting a windlass
  • central bank — a national bank that does business mainly with a government and with other banks: it regulates the volume and cost of credit
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