12-letter words containing b, u, c, k
- 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.
- doubledecker — Alternative spelling of double-decker.
- futtock band — a metal band around a lower mast somewhat below the top, for holding the lower ends of a futtock shroud.
- honey bucket — a container for excrement, as in an outdoor toilet.
- kit-cat club — a club of Whig wits, painters, politicians, and men of letters, including Robert Walpole, John Vanbrugh, William Congreve, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Godfrey Kneller, that flourished in London between 1703 and 1720.
- kit-kat club — a club of Whig wits, painters, politicians, and men of letters, including Robert Walpole, John Vanbrugh, William Congreve, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Godfrey Kneller, that flourished in London between 1703 and 1720.
- knuckle ball — a slow pitch that moves erratically toward home plate, usually delivered by holding the ball between the thumb and the knuckles of the first joints of the first two or three fingers.
- knuckleballs — Plural form of knuckleball.
- knucklebones — (in humans) any of the bones forming a knuckle of a finger.
- lumberjacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
- lunch-bucket — a small container, usually of metal or plastic and with a handle, for carrying one's lunch from home to school or work.
- marcus baker — Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska, near Anchorage: highest peak in the Chugach Mountains. 13,176 feet (4016 meters).
- ohio buckeye — See under buckeye (def 1).
- peacock blue — a lustrous greenish blue, as of certain peacock feathers.
- picture book — a book consisting mainly or entirely of pictures, especially one for children who have not yet learned to read.
- pork butcher — a butcher who specializes in pork
- public works — government-funded construction
- quarterbacks — Plural form of quarterback.
- rock bunting — a seed-eating songbird, Emberiza cia
- rubber check — a check drawn on an account lacking the funds to pay it; a check that bounces.
- rubbernecker — a person who rubbernecks
- rubik's cube — a puzzle consisting of a cube with colored faces made of 26 smaller colored blocks attached to a spindle in the center, the object being to rotate the blocks until each face of the cube is a single color.
- rugby tackle — A rugby tackle is a way of making someone fall over by throwing your arms around their legs or hips.
- running back — an offensive back, as a halfback or fullback, whose principal role is advancing the ball by running with it on plays from scrimmage.
- swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
- thumb-sucker — a person who habitually sucks a thumb.
- truck jobber — a jobber or wholesaler who makes calls carrying goods on a truck, thereby being able to take and deliver orders on the same call.
- unreckonable — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- vacuum brake — a brake system, used on British and many overseas railways, in which the brake is held off by a vacuum on one side of the brake-operating cylinder. If the vacuum is destroyed by controlled leakage of air or a disruptive emergency, the brake is applied. It is now largely superseded by the Westinghouse brake system
- watteau back — a loose, full back of a woman's gown, formed by wide box pleats hanging from a high shoulder yoke and extending to the hem in an unbroken line.