12-letter words containing a, e, g
- brake lining — a curved thin strip of an asbestos composition riveted to a brake shoe to provide it with a renewable surface
- braunschweig — Brunswick
- breadwinning — a person who earns a livelihood, especially one who also supports dependents.
- break a leg! — good luck!
- break ground — to do something that has not been done before
- breakdancing — a type of vigorous dance
- breakthrough — A breakthrough is an important development or achievement.
- breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
- breath group — a sequence of sounds articulated in the course of a single exhalation; an utterance or part of an utterance produced between pauses for breath.
- breathtaking — If you say that something is breathtaking, you are emphasizing that it is extremely beautiful or amazing.
- bridge a gap — to remedy a deficiency
- bridge chair — a lightweight folding chair, often part of a set of matching chairs and bridge table.
- bridge party — a gathering for the purpose of playing bridge
- bridge table — a square card table with folding legs.
- brooks range — a mountain range in N Alaska. Highest peak: Mount Isto, 2761 m (9058 ft)
- brown bagger — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
- buccaneering — If you describe someone as buccaneering, you mean that they enjoy being involved in risky or even dishonest activities, especially in order to make money.
- buffel grass — grass used for pasture in Africa, India, and Australia
- bugger about — If someone buggers about or buggers around, they waste time doing unnecessary things.
- bumper guard — either of two vertical crosspieces attached to a bumper of a motor vehicle to prevent it from locking bumpers with another vehicle.
- bumping race — (esp at Oxford and Cambridge) a race in which rowing eights start an equal distance one behind the other and each tries to bump the boat in front
- 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 moth — a common brownish noctuid moth, Mamestra brassicae, the larva of which is destructive of cabbages and other plants
- cabbage palm — a West Indian palm, Roystonea (or Oreodoxa) oleracea, whose leaf buds are eaten like cabbage
- 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
- cable length — a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
- cable-laying — involved in or connected to the activity of laying cables
- cablecasting — relating to broadcasting by cable
- 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
- caenogenesis — the development of structures and organs in an embryo or larva that are adaptations to its way of life and are not retained in the adult form
- cage cricket — a form of cricket played in an enclosed space, in which six players compete as individuals
- calligraphed — Simple past tense and past participle of calligraph.
- calligrapher — A calligrapher is a person skilled in the art of calligraphy.
- camp meeting — a religious meeting held in a large tent or outdoors, often lasting several days
- camping site — A camping site is the same as a campsite.
- campo grande — a city in SW Brazil, capital of Mato Grosso do Sul state on the São Paulo–Corumbá railway: market centre. Pop: 746 000 (2005 est)
- campshedding — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
- canada goose — A Canada goose is a grayish-brown wild goose that comes from North America.
- canned goods — tinned food produce
- canyoneering — (US) Canyoning, a hybrid outdoor sport involving the traversal of river canyons.
- cape agulhas — a headland in South Africa, the southernmost point of the African continent
- cape delgado — a headland on the NE coast of Mozambique
- cape ortegal — a cape in NW Spain, projecting into the Bay of Biscay
- caper spurge — a spurge, Euphorbia lathyris, producing latex that is considered a possible source of crude oil and gasoline.
- caramelizing — Present participle of caramelize.
- carcinogenic — A substance that is carcinogenic is likely to cause cancer.