12-letter words containing b, a, r, k
- 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
- checkerboard — A checkerboard is a square board with 64 black and white squares that is used for playing checkers or chess.
- cocktail bar — a bar which serves cocktails
- coffee break — A coffee break is a short period of time, usually in the morning or afternoon, when you stop working and have a cup of coffee.
- cork cambium — a layer of meristematic cells in the cortex of the stems and roots of woody plants, the outside of which gives rise to cork cells and the inside to secondary cortical cells (phelloderm)
- crack a book — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- crackbrained — insane, idiotic, or crazy
- crackerberry — bunchberry.
- cricket ball — the ball used to play cricket
- culebra peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Culebra Range of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,069 feet (4288 meters).
- cyberattacks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cyberattack.
- cyberstalker — (Internet) A stalker who operates online.
- dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
- disembarking — Present participle of disembark.
- double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
- draw a blank — (of paper or other writing surface) having no marks; not written or printed on: a blank sheet of paper.
- drinkability — The state or property of being drinkable.
- drop a brick — a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
- 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
- georges bank — a bank extending generally NE from Nantucket: fishing grounds. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- grand kabuki — kabuki (def 2).
- greenbackism — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
- hark back to — recall: earlier era
- hawk's beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- hawk's-beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- hearken back — to go back in thought or speech; revert; hark back
- heartbreaker — a person, event, or thing causing heartbreak.
- hkakabo razi — the highest peak in Myanmar, in Kachin state, in the N. 19,294 feet (5881 meters).
- horsebreaker — One who trains, or breaks in, horses.
- housebreaker — a person who breaks into and enters a house with a felonious intent.
- ishikari bay — a bay of the Sea of Japan, on the W coast of Hokkaido, Japan.
- iskander bey — Scanderbeg.
- jackass bark — a barkentine square-rigged on the mainmast above a gaff mainsail.
- jackass brig — a two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on the foremast with a fore-and-aft mainsail; brigantine.
- jailbreaking — Present participle of jailbreak.
- jaw-breaking — Informal. a word that is hard to pronounce.
- jodrell bank — site of a radio astronomy observatory (Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories) in NE Cheshire, England, that operates a 250-foot (76-meter) radio telescope.
- k/t boundary — Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: the time zone comprising the end of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Tertiary periods
- kerb-crawler — a man who drives slowly looking to entice a prostitute into his car for sexual purposes
- keyboardists — Plural form of keyboardist.
- khaibar pass — Khyber Pass.
- kiteboarding — A sport in which participants ride a form of wakeboard or surfboard harnessed to a large kite which is controlled by the rider.
- 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.
- 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.
- law-breaking — Law-breaking is any kind of illegal activity.
- lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.