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15-letter words containing b, r, o, k, n

  • airborne attack — an attack involving airborne troops
  • alder buckthorn — a Eurasian rhamnaceous shrub, Frangula alnus, with small greenish flowers and black berry-like fruits
  • antilock brakes — brakes fitted to some road vehicles that prevent skidding and improve control by sensing and compensating for overbraking
  • apartment block — building: flats, apartments
  • back projection — a method of projecting pictures onto a translucent screen so that they are viewed from the opposite side, used esp in films to create the illusion that the actors in the foreground are moving
  • backup rotation — (operating system)   Any system for re-using backup media, e.g. magnetic tape. One extreme would be to use the same media for every backup (e.g. copy disk A to disk B), the other extreme would be to use new media every time. The trade-off is between the cost of buying and storing media and the ability to restore any version of any file. One example is the Grandfather, Father, Son (GFS) scheme.
  • banking product — one of the various services offered by a bank to its customers: mortgages, loans, insurance etc
  • barn-door skate — an Atlantic skate, Raja laevis, that grows to a length of 4 feet (1.2 meters) or more.
  • black horehound — a hairy unpleasant-smelling chiefly Mediterranean plant, Ballota nigra, having clusters of purple flowers: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
  • black operation — a covert and undocumented military operation
  • black snakeroot — a tall bugbane, Cimicifuga racemosa, of the buttercup family, of eastern North America, having thin, tapering, toothed or deeply cut leaflets and branched clusters of small, white flowers.
  • blockade runner — a person, ship etc that tries to carry goods through a blockade
  • blockade-runner — a ship or person that passes through a blockade.
  • blow one's cork — to lose one's temper; become enraged
  • bookmaking firm — an organization that accepts bets from gamblers and pays out winnings
  • break-in period — a period during which certain restrictions or moderation in operating should be followed, as the avoidance of high speed, rapid acceleration, or severe braking for a new automobile.
  • breakbone fever — dengue
  • breakdown cover — insurance cover against breakdowns in a vehicle
  • breakeven point — a point at which the total revenue and total cost are equal
  • breaking plough — a plough with a long shallow mouldboard for turning virgin land or sod land
  • brocken specter — an optical phenomenon sometimes occurring at high altitudes when the image of an observer placed between the sun and a cloud is projected on the cloud as a greatly magnified shadow.
  • broken pediment — a pediment, as over a doorway or window, having its raking cornice interrupted at the crown or apex.
  • bronzed grackle — the western subspecies of the American bird, the common grackle, Quiscalus quiscula versicolor, having bronzy, iridescent plumage.
  • brooklyn bridge — a suspension bridge over the East River, in New York City, connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn: built 1867–84. 5989 feet (1825 meters) long.
  • brooklyn center — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • bucket conveyor — a conveyor consisting of an endless chain with a series of buckets attached at regular intervals, used for moving ore, gravel, grain, or other bulk materials.
  • building worker — a labourer, bricklayer, etc who works in the construction industry
  • chicken lobster — a young lobster weighing 1 pound (0.4 kg) or less.
  • cinderella book — (publication)   "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation", by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman, (Addison-Wesley, 1979). So called because the cover depicts a girl (putatively Cinderella) sitting in front of a Rube Goldberg device and holding a rope coming out of it. On the back cover, the device is in shambles after she has (inevitably) pulled on the rope. See also book titles.
  • comfort blanket — a blanket that a young child is very attached to
  • commercial bank — a bank primarily concerned with accepting demand deposits, used as checking accounts
  • contact breaker — a switching device used in the distributor of an internal-combustion engine which controls the timing of the spark that ignites the spark plug
  • counterblockade — a retaliatory blockade
  • countersink bit — a tool for countersinking
  • country bumpkin — an awkward, simple, rustic person
  • debenture stock — stock that pays a fixed rate of interest at fixed intervals
  • discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
  • donnybrook fair — a fair which until 1855 was held annually at Donnybrook, County Dublin, Ireland, and which was famous for rioting and dissipation.
  • electronic book — An electronic book is the same as an e-book.
  • false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
  • ground-breaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
  • groundbreakings — Plural form of groundbreaking.
  • heartbrokenness — The state or quality of being heartbroken.
  • knebworth house — a Tudor mansion in Knebworth in Hertfordshire: home of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton; decorated (1843) in the Gothic style
  • knickerbockered — wearing knickers.
  • knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
  • manukau harbour — an inlet of the Tasman Sea near Auckland in New Zealand on NW North Island
  • mount blackburn — a mountain in SE Alaska, the highest peak in the Wrangell Mountains. Height: 5037 m (16 523 ft)
  • never look back — to become increasingly successful
  • nickel carbonyl — a colorless or yellow, volatile, water-insoluble, poisonous, flammable liquid, Ni(CO) 4 , obtained by the reaction of nickel and carbon monoxide, and used for nickel-plating.

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