12-letter words containing b, e, k
- carrick bend — type of knot
- central bank — a national bank that does business mainly with a government and with other banks: it regulates the volume and cost of credit
- channel back — an upholstered chair or sofa back having deep vertical grooves.
- 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
- checkerberry — the fruit of any of various plants, esp the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens)
- checkerbloom — a Californian malvaceous plant, Sidalcea malvaeflora, with pink or purple flowers
- checkerboard — A checkerboard is a square board with 64 black and white squares that is used for playing checkers or chess.
- chokeberries — Plural form of chokeberry.
- cinder block — A cinder block is a large grey brick made from coal cinders and cement which is used for building.
- click beetle — any beetle of the family Elateridae, which have the ability to right themselves with a snapping movement when placed on their backs
- cock lobster — a male lobster
- cockeyed bob — a short, violent storm.
- 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.
- combat knife — a large knife for military use
- come back to — If you come back to a topic or point, you talk about it again later.
- cookery book — A cookery book is the same as a cookbook.
- corner brook — a city in Newfoundland, in E Canada, on the W part of the island.
- crackbrained — insane, idiotic, or crazy
- crackerberry — bunchberry.
- cricket ball — the ball used to play cricket
- crookes tube — a type of cathode-ray tube in which the electrons are produced by a glow discharge in a low-pressure gas
- 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.
- donkey derby — a race in which contestants ride donkeys, esp at a rural fête
- double block — a block having two sheaves or pulleys.
- double bucky — Using both the CTRL and META keys. "The command to burn all LEDs is double bucky F." This term originated on the Stanford extended-ASCII keyboard, and was later taken up by users of the space-cadet keyboard at MIT. A typical MIT comment was that the Stanford bucky bits (control and meta shifting keys) were nice, but there weren't enough of them; you could type only 512 different characters on a Stanford keyboard. An obvious way to address this was simply to add more shifting keys, and this was eventually done; but a keyboard with that many shifting keys is hard on touch-typists, who don't like to move their hands away from the home position on the keyboard. It was half-seriously suggested that the extra shifting keys be implemented as pedals; typing on such a keyboard would be very much like playing a full pipe organ. This idea is mentioned in a parody of a very fine song by Jeffrey Moss called "Rubber Duckie", which was published in "The Sesame Street Songbook" (Simon and Schuster 1971, ISBN 0-671-21036-X). These lyrics were written on May 27, 1978, in celebration of the Stanford keyboard: Double Bucky Double bucky, you're the one! You make my keyboard lots of fun. Double bucky, an additional bit or two: (Vo-vo-de-o!) Control and meta, side by side, Augmented ASCII, nine bits wide! Double bucky! Half a thousand glyphs, plus a few! Oh, I sure wish that I Had a couple of Bits more! Perhaps a Set of pedals to Make the number of Bits four: Double double bucky! Double bucky, left and right OR'd together, outta sight! Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of Double bucky, I'm happy I heard of Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of you! - The Great Quux (With apologies to Jeffrey Moss. This, by the way, is an excellent example of computer filk --- ESR). See also meta bit, cokebottle, and quadruple bucky.
- double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
- double truck — Typesetting. a chase for holding the type for a center spread, especially for a newspaper.
- double-check — a simultaneous check by two pieces in which the moving of one piece to give check also results in discovering a check by another piece.
- double-click — to click a mouse button twice in rapid succession, as to open a program or select a file: Double-click on the desktop icon.
- double-quick — very quick or rapid.
- double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
- doubledecker — Alternative spelling of double-decker.
- duke of alba — Duke of, Alva, Fernando Alvarez de Toledo.
- engine block — the metal casting containing the piston chambers of an internal combustion engine
- facebook.com — (web) One of the most popular social networking websites.
- featherbacks — Plural form of featherback.
- fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
- floor broker — a member of a stock or commodity exchange who executes orders on the floor of the exchange for other brokers.
- fruit basket — a basket containing a variety of fruits sent as a gift
- fully booked — having no vacancies or spaces
- geelvink bay — former (Dutch) name of Sarera Bay.
- georges bank — a bank extending generally NE from Nantucket: fishing grounds. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- go for broke — a simple past tense of break.
- gobbledegook — language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.
- gobbledygook — language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.
- 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.