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12-letter words containing a, b, n, e, g

  • global index — (filename extension)   (gid) The filename extension of a Windows 95 "global index" file. .gid files are created by the help browser internal to Windows 95 (also available for other Windows versions) for WinHelp files (hlp), as well as for storing user preferences, such as window position.
  • gluten bread — bread made from gluten flour.
  • gold-beating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
  • gravel-blind — more blind or dim-sighted than sand-blind and less than stone-blind.
  • grecian bend — (especially in the late 19th century) a posture or walk, often considered fashionable, in which the body is bent forward from the waist.
  • 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.
  • ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
  • gubernacular — relating to a gubernaculum
  • gubernaculum — a part or organ that directs the movement or course of another part.
  • gum-benjamin — Also called gum benjamin, gum benzoin. a reddish-brown, aromatic balsamic resin occurring in almondlike fragments and having a vanillalike odor, obtained from trees of the genus Styrax, especially S. benzoin, of Java, Sumatra, etc.: used in the manufacture of perfume and cosmetics and in medicine internally as an expectorant and externally as an antiseptic.
  • hand baggage — the suitcases, bags, etc, that you take with you onto an aeroplane when you travel, as opposed to those bags that are put in the aeroplane's hold
  • harbingering — Present participle of harbinger.
  • heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
  • heating bill — a bill for the supply of energy to heat a building
  • herring boat — a fishing boat that specializes in catching herring
  • home banking — a system whereby a person at home or in an office can use a computer with a modem to call up information from a bank or to transfer funds electronically
  • honey badger — ratel.
  • incoagulable — of a nature that cannot be coagulated
  • incognizable — Not cognizable; incapable of being recognised.
  • inexpugnable — incapable of being taken by force; impregnable; unconquerable.
  • interrobangs — Plural form of interrobang.
  • interrogable — capable of being interrogated
  • investigable — capable of being investigated.
  • jailbreaking — Present participle of jailbreak.
  • jaw-breaking — Informal. a word that is hard to pronounce.
  • johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
  • jumping bean — the seed of any of certain Mexican plants of the genera Sebastiania and Sapium, of the spurge family: the movements of a moth larva inside the seed cause it to move about or jump.
  • kiteboarding — A sport in which participants ride a form of wakeboard or surfboard harnessed to a large kite which is controlled by the rider.
  • knowledgable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • 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.
  • laguna beach — a town in S California.
  • land-grabber — a person who seizes land illegally or underhandedly.
  • landgrabbers — Plural form of landgrabber.
  • landing beam — a radio beam transmitted from a landing field to enable aircraft to make an instrument landing
  • lavender bag — a small fabric bag filled with dried lavender flowers and placed amongst clothes or linen to scent them
  • law-breaking — Law-breaking is any kind of illegal activity.
  • lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
  • lawrenceburg — a town in S Tennessee.
  • liberalising — Present participle of liberalise.
  • liberalizing — Present participle of liberalize.
  • liberatingly — In a liberating manner.
  • load-bearing — bearing the weight that is carried by a structure
  • loganberries — Plural form of loganberry.
  • longboat key — a narrow barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico, SW of Florida, sheltering Sarasota Bay: sports fishing.
  • longyearbyen — a village on Spitsbergen island, administrative centre of the Svalbard archipelago: coal-mining
  • louise bogan — Louise, 1897–1970, U.S. poet.
  • magic number — the atomic number or neutron number of an exceptionally stable nuclide.
  • magnetizable — susceptible to magnetization.
  • mailing tube — an elongated cylinder of cardboard, used for mailing rolled-up papers, magazines, etc.
  • main bearing — one of the bearings in an internal combustion engine upon which the crankshaft rotates
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