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14-letter words containing b, e, k

  • broken-hearted — Someone who is broken-hearted is very sad and upset because they have had a serious disappointment.
  • brunswick stew — a stew originally made with squirrel and onions, and now usually with rabbit or chicken and corn, okra, onions, tomatoes, lima beans, etc.
  • bucket brigade — a line of persons passing buckets of water along in trying to put out a fire
  • buckwheat cake — a pancake made of buckwheat flour.
  • buckwheat coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 5/16 to 9/16 inch (7.9 to 13.9 m).
  • buckwheat note — shape note.
  • builder's knot — clove hitch
  • bumper sticker — A bumper sticker is a small piece of paper or plastic with words or pictures on it, designed for sticking onto the back of your car. It usually has a political, religious, or humorous message.
  • buteyko method — a breath control technique used to prevent hyperventilation and treat asthma without drugs
  • butter brickle — an ice-cream flavor, usually vanilla or butterscotch, containing crunchy bits of butterscotch candy.
  • butterfly knot — a particularly resistant knot which resembles a butterfly and can take loads on both ends, as well as on the loop
  • buttermilk sky — a cloudy sky resembling the mottled or clabbered appearance of buttermilk.
  • buyer's market — When there is a buyer's market for a particular product, there are more of the products for sale than there are people who want to buy them, so buyers have a lot of choice and can make prices come down.
  • buyers' market — a market in which goods and services are plentiful and prices relatively low.
  • buyers' strike — an attempt on the part of consumers to lower price levels by boycotting retailers or certain types of goods.
  • cable trunking — Cable trunking is an enclosure usually with a rectangular cross section, and with one removable or hinged side, that is used to protect cables and provide space for other electrical equipment.
  • carbonate rock — Carbonate rock is a sedimentary rock which is composed mainly of calcium carbonate (CaCO₃).
  • chartered bank — a privately owned bank that has been incorporated by Parliament to operate in the commercial banking system
  • checkerberries — Plural form of checkerberry.
  • chesapeake bay — the largest inlet of the Atlantic in the coast of the US: bordered by Maryland and Virginia
  • chicken breast — pigeon breast
  • clothes basket — a basket for storing and transporting clothes that need washing, or have been washed
  • cocktail table — a low table as for serving refreshments, esp. one in a living room
  • cook the books — to make fraudulent alterations to business or other accounts
  • cracker bonbon — a thin, crisp biscuit.
  • cracker-barrel — rural; rustic; homespun
  • customs broker — a person whose job is to assist businesses in clearing imported or exported goods through customs
  • cylinder block — the metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling channels or fins of a reciprocating internal-combustion engine
  • defensive back — a defender positioned off the line of scrimmage for the purpose of covering pass receivers and tackling runners who elude linemen and linebackers.
  • disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
  • do one's block — to become angry
  • docking bridge — a raised platform running from one side to the other of a ship toward the stern, used by officers for supervising docking operations.
  • double deckers — (jargon)   Married couples in which both partners work for Digital Equipment Corporation.
  • double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
  • double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
  • drinks cabinet — a cocktail cabinet
  • fredericksburg — a city in NE Virginia, on the Rappahannock River: scene of a Confederate victory 1862.
  • freeboard deck — (on a cargo vessel) the uppermost deck officially considered to be watertight: used as the level from which the Plimsoll marks are measured.
  • get one's back — situated at or in the rear: at the back door; back fence.
  • greek alphabet — the alphabetical script derived from a Semitic alphabet by way of the Phoenicians, used from about the 8th century b.c. for the writing of Greek, and forming the basis of many other scripts, including Latin and Cyrillic. The letters of the Greek alphabet are: alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu1 , xi, omicron, pi1 , rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi1 , psi1 , omega.
  • groundbreaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
  • handbrake turn — a turn sharply reversing the direction of a vehicle by speedily applying the handbrake while turning the steering wheel
  • hanging basket — suspended woven container for plants
  • he-huckleberry — swamp andromeda.
  • hit the bricks — 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.
  • honeycomb work — stalactite work.
  • horseshoe back — a bow back having a slight outward splay at its bottom.
  • huckleberrying — the activity of gathering huckleberries
  • humpback whale — a large whalebone whale of the genus Megaptera having long narrow flippers, and noted for its habit of arching deeply as it dives: once abundant in coastal waters, it is now rare but its numbers are increasing.
  • inboard brakes — Inboard brakes are brakes located close to the center of the vehicle rather than at the wheel hub.
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