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13-letter words containing a, b, o, g

  • noogoora burr — a European cocklebur, Xanthium pungens, that is poisonous to stock
  • novo hamburgo — a city in Rio Grande do Sul state, S Brazil.
  • objurgatively — In an objurgative or reproving manner.
  • oblique angle — an angle that is not a right angle; an acute or obtuse angle.
  • old bulgarian — the Bulgarian language of the Middle Ages.
  • organ-builder — a maker of organs
  • overbalancing — Present participle of overbalance.
  • overbearingly — domineering; dictatorial; haughtily or rudely arrogant.
  • overbreathing — hyperventilation
  • overnight bag — a travel bag large enough to hold personal articles and clothing for an overnight trip.
  • palaeobiology — the study of fossil plants and animals
  • parking orbit — a temporary orbit in which a spacecraft awaits the next phase of its mission.
  • phlebographic — relating to phlebography or the X-ray imaging of a vein that has been injected with a dye that is visible on the image taken
  • pigeon breast — chicken breast.
  • pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
  • polythene bag — a bag made of polythene, esp one used to store or protect food or household articles
  • potato blight — fungal disease affecting potatoes
  • pouring-basin — (in a vacuum induction furnace) a trough through which molten metal flows under vacuum to a mold chamber.
  • prebiological — of or relating to chemicals or environmental conditions existing before the development of the first living things.
  • rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
  • rambling rose — any of various cultivated hybrid roses that straggle over other vegetation
  • rialto bridge — a bridge over the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy, liking Rialto Island with San Marco Island
  • road-blocking — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
  • robot dancing — a dance of the 1980s characterized by jerky mechanical movements
  • rollerblading — skating on rollerblades
  • rough as bags — uncouth
  • running board — a small ledge, step, or footboard, formerly beneath the doors of an automobile, to assist passengers entering or leaving the car.
  • savoy cabbage — a variety of cabbage having a compact head of crinkled, blistered leaves.
  • shadow boxing — to make the motions of attack and defense, as in boxing, as a training or conditioning procedure.
  • shot-blasting — the cleaning of metal, etc, by a stream of shot
  • single combat — combat between two persons.
  • skateboarding — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
  • soluble glass — sodium silicate.
  • space biology — exobiology.
  • springboarded — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
  • store baggage — If a hotel stores baggage, it puts a guest's baggage in a storage room until it is needed by the guest.
  • subcategorize — to split into subcategories
  • subcollegiate — of, relating to, or characteristic of subcollege students or a subcollege
  • subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
  • subgeneration — a generation within another generation
  • surgical boot — a specially designed boot or shoe that compensates for deformities of the foot or leg
  • swedenborgian — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
  • symbolography — the writing of symbolic characters or tracing of symbolic figures
  • the gas board — any company supplying gas as a source of domestic and industrial heat
  • thorough bass — figured bass.
  • thoroughbrace — either of two strong leather straps upon which the body of certain types of carriage is supported
  • to bust a gut — To bust a gut means to work very hard trying to achieve something.
  • trade embargo — a government order imposing a trade barrier
  • troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
  • turbo-charged — A turbo-charged engine or vehicle is fitted with a turbo.
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