13-letter words containing a, g, i
- autoradiogram — autoradiograph
- avant-gardism — the attitudes, techniques, etc., of the cultural avant-garde.
- award-winning — An award-winning person or thing has won an award, especially an important or valuable one.
- awe-inspiring — If you describe someone or something as awe-inspiring, you are emphasizing that you think that they are remarkable and amazing, although sometimes rather frightening.
- awning window — a window frame having one or more sashes hinged at the top and swinging outward.
- baby carriage — A baby carriage is a small vehicle in which a baby can lie as it is pushed along.
- bachelor girl — a young unmarried woman, esp one who is self-supporting
- back clipping — a word formed by omitting the last part of the form from which it is derived.
- back straight — a straight part of a circuit, esp of an athletics track or a racecourse, furthest from the finishing point
- back-breaking — Back-breaking work involves a lot of hard physical effort.
- back-slapping — Back-slapping is noisy, cheerful behaviour which people use in order to show affection or appreciation to each other.
- back-stabbing — Back-stabbing consists of unkind and disloyal actions or remarks that are likely to harm someone such as a friend or colleague.
- back-up light — a light on the rear of a motor vehicle to warn others that the vehicle is being reversed
- backgrounding — Present participle of background.
- backing group — a group of musicians providing an instrumental or vocal accompaniment for a pop singer
- backing light — Also called backing striplight, backing strip. Theater. a striplight providing diffused illumination for the background of a stage set.
- backing store — a computer storage device, usually a disk, that provides additional storage space for information so that it can be accessed and referred to when required and may be copied into the processor if needed
- backing track — a recorded instrumental or vocal accompaniment for a pop singer or pop number
- backpedalling — to retard the forward motion by pressing backward on the pedal, especially of a bicycle with coaster brakes.
- backstitching — Present participle of backstitch.
- bacteriogenic — Caused by bacteria.
- bacteriologic — a branch of microbiology dealing with the identification, study, and cultivation of bacteria and with their applications in medicine, agriculture, industry, and biotechnology.
- bacteriophage — a virus that is parasitic in a bacterium and multiplies within its host, which is destroyed when the new viruses are released
- bacteriophagy — the action of a bacteriophage
- bag of tricks — a container or receptacle of leather, plastic, cloth, paper, etc., capable of being closed at the mouth; pouch.
- bag-snatching — theft that involves snatching women's handbags
- baggage claim — At an airport, the baggage claim is the area where you collect your baggage at the end of your trip.
- baggage train — a train of wagons carrying the equipment needed by an army on the march
- bailey bridge — a temporary bridge made of prefabricated steel panels that can be rapidly assembled
- baking powder — Baking powder is an ingredient used in cake making. It causes cakes to rise when they are in the oven.
- balancing act — If you perform a balancing act, you try to deal successfully with two or more people, groups, or situations that are in opposition to each other.
- balch springs — a town in NE Texas.
- ball and ring — a simplified bead-and-reel turning, used especially in English and American furniture of the 17th century.
- ball handling — the control of the ball, as in basketball or soccer, by skillful dribbling and accurate passing.
- bandspreading — an additional tuning control in some radio receivers whereby a selected narrow band of frequencies can be spread over a wider frequency band, in order to give finer control of tuning
- banking hours — the hours during which a bank is open for business
- banking house — a more formal term for a bank
- bantamweights — Plural form of bantamweight.
- bar-and-grill — a place where food and alcoholic drinks are served to customers; a combined barroom and grillroom.
- bargain offer — something for sale at a low price
- bargain price — a low price
- barnsbreaking — noisy and exuberant activity; boisterous mischief-making
- barrel engine — an engine having cylinders arranged around and parallel to a shaft, which they rotate by means of the contact of their piston rods with a swash plate or cam on the shaft.
- basal ganglia — the thalamus together with other closely related masses of grey matter, situated near the base of the brain
- basic english — a simplified form of English, proposed by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, containing a vocabulary of approximately 850 of the commonest English words, intended as an international language
- basic plumage — the plumage assumed by an adult bird at its complete, usually annual, molt.
- basking shark — a very large plankton-eating shark, Cetorhinus maximus, often floating at the sea surface: family Cetorhinidae
- bastard eigne — the first-born illegitimate son of parents whose second son was legitimate.
- battering ram — A battering ram is a long heavy piece of wood that is used to knock down the locked doors of buildings.
- battering-ram — an ancient military device with a heavy horizontal ram for battering down walls, gates, etc.