12-letter words containing a, b, r, g
- burning ghat — a platform at the top of a riverside ghat where Hindus cremate their dead.
- burnt orange — of a dark orange colour, sometimes due to calcination of orange pigment
- bush leaguer — Also called busher. Baseball. a player in a minor league. an incompetent player, as one who behaves or plays as if he or she belonged in a minor league.
- bush-leaguer — (in baseball) someone who plays in a minor league
- by and large — You use by and large to indicate that a statement is mostly but not completely true.
- cabbage rose — a rose, Rosa centifolia, with a round compact full-petalled head
- cabbage tree — a tree, Cordyline australis, of New Zealand having a tall branchless trunk and a palmlike top
- cabriole leg — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
- cantabrigian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Cambridge or Cambridge University, or of Cambridge, Massachusetts, or Harvard University
- carbonadoing — Present participle of carbonado.
- cardigan bay — an inlet of St George's Channel, on the W coast of Wales
- carpetbagged — Simple past tense and past participle of carpetbag.
- carpetbagger — If you call someone a carpetbagger, you disapprove of them because they are trying to become a politician in an area which is not their home, simply because they think they are more likely to succeed there.
- carriageable — (of a road, etc) able to be travelled in a carriage
- carry-on bag — a small bag that is taken inside an aircraft by hand personally by a passenger
- chambersburg — a city in central Pennsylvania.
- charbroiling — Present participle of charbroil.
- charlesbourg — city in S Quebec, Canada: pop. 71,000
- childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
- chinning bar — a piece of equipment used for doing pull-ups
- clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
- class b drug — (in Britain) any of the second most dangerous group of controlled drugs, including amphetamine
- coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
- cobalt green — a medium, yellowish-green color.
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- coral gables — a city in SE Florida, near Miami.
- corbie gable — a gable having corbie-steps
- crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
- crossbarring — stripes, esp those of an animal
- cybercasting — the broadcasting of news, entertainment, etc., using the Internet, specifically the World Wide Web.
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- deliberating — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- diagrammable — able to be diagrammed or representable by a diagram
- diffrangible — capable of being diffracted
- disagreeable — contrary to one's taste or liking; unpleasant; offensive; repugnant.
- disagreeably — In a disagreeable manner.
- disembarking — Present participle of disembark.
- disembrangle — to disentangle (a person or thing)
- diving board — a springboard.
- double sugar — disaccharide.
- doubleganger — doppelgänger.
- draught beer — beer which is stored in bulk, esp in a cask, as opposed to being bottled
- draughtboard — checkerboard (def 1).
- eager beaver — a person who is excessively diligent or overly zealous.
- ear-grabbing — (of music) immediately capturing and holding the attention of listeners
- early blight — a disease of plants characterized by leaf spotting, defoliation, and stunted growth, caused by any of several fungi, as Alternaria solani or Cercospora apii.
- elbow grease — physical effort
- embarrassing — Causing embarrassment.
- exacerbating — Present participle of exacerbate.
- fibrillating — Present participle of fibrillate.