12-letter words containing a, g, e, o
- autochangers — Plural form of autochanger.
- autogenously — In an autogenous manner; spontaneously.
- babingtonite — a rare, slightly magnetic, black or dark green silicate mineral, Ca2Fe2Si5O14OH, found in cavities in volcanic rock
- backgrounded — Simple past tense and past participle of background.
- backgrounder — A backgrounder is a short article in a newspaper or magazine that provides background information about a particular subject.
- bacteriology — Bacteriology is the science and the study of bacteria.
- balladmonger — (formerly) a seller of ballads, esp on broadsheets
- barcalounger — a type of reclinable armchair with an extendable footrest
- barge couple — either of a pair of outside rafters along the gable end of a roof
- barge course — the overhang of the gable end of a roof
- barrel organ — A barrel organ is a large machine that plays music when you turn the handle on the side. Barrel organs used to be played in the street to entertain people.
- baton charge — A baton charge is an attacking forward movement made by a large group of policemen carrying batons.
- battle group — a group of warships usually consisting of at least one aircraft carrier, other surface ships, submarines, landing craft, etc
- battle wagon — a battleship.
- battleground — A battleground is the same as a battlefield.
- battlewagons — Plural form of battlewagon.
- beachcombing — The action of a beachcomber.
- beacon light — a light signal for shipping
- bead molding — bead (def 12).
- beardtongues — Plural form of beardtongue.
- bearing down — to hold up; support: to bear the weight of the roof.
- beaumontague — a cement-like substance used to fill in and hide cracks and holes in woodwork and metalwork
- benzal group — the bivalent group C 7 H 6 –, derived from benzaldehyde.
- bingo caller — the person who shouts out the numbers to bingo players
- biogeography — the branch of biology concerned with the geographical distribution of plants and animals
- biomagnetics — the study of magnetic fields as a form of therapy
- biomagnetism — animal magnetism.
- black grouse — a large N European grouse, Lyrurus tetrix, the male of which has a bluish-black plumage and lyre-shaped tail
- black tongue — canine pellagra.
- blaze orange — a very bright orange, as on a traffic cone.
- blood orange — a variety of orange all or part of the pulp of which is dark red when ripe
- bloomingdale — a town in NE Illinois.
- boating lake — a lake in a park where rowing boats can be hired
- bog asphodel — either of two liliaceous plants, Narthecium ossifragum of Europe or N. americanum of North America, that grow in boggy places and have small yellow flowers and grasslike leaves
- bog of allen — a region of peat bogs in central Ireland, west of Dublin. Area: over 10 sq km (3.75 sq miles)
- bog rosemary — any of several species (genus Andromeda) of evergreen shrubs of the heath family, native to cold bogs of North America and Europe, with pink flowers and narrow leaves
- boghead coal — compact bituminous coal that burns brightly and yields large quantities of tar and oil upon distillation.
- boilermaking — metal-working in heavy industry; plating or welding
- bombe glacée — a dessert of ice cream lined or filled with custard, cake crumbs, etc
- bonnet glass — monteith (def 2).
- bonnet-glass — a large punch bowl, usually of silver, having a notched rim for suspending punch cups.
- boogie board — a small, flexible plastic surfboard, ridden lying down.
- boolean ring — a nonempty collection of sets having the properties that the union of two sets of the collection is a set in the collection and that the relative complement of each set with respect to any other set is in the collection.
- boomeranging — a bent or curved piece of tough wood used by the Australian Aborigines as a throwing club, one form of which can be thrown so as to return to the thrower.
- bootleg play — a play in which the quarterback pretends to hand the ball to a teammate, hides it by placing it next to his hip, and runs with it.
- border guard — a guard stationed on a border between countries
- bottle glass — glass used for making bottles, consisting of a silicate of sodium, calcium, and aluminium
- bougainville — an island in the W Pacific, in Papua New Guinea: the largest of the Solomon Islands: unilaterally declared independence in 1990; occupied by government troops in 1992, and granted autonomy in 2001. Chief town: Kieta. Area: 10 049 sq km (3880 sq miles)
- boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
- bound charge — any electric charge that is bound to an atom or molecule (opposed to free charge).