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13-letter words containing a, g, r, o, i, n

  • be hard going — If you say that something is hard going, you mean it is difficult and requires a lot of effort.
  • bearing sword — a large sword carried for its owner by a squire or servant because of its size.
  • bergamot mint — an aromatic herb, Mentha piperita citrata, having a lemonlike odor when crushed.
  • big brown bat — any of several small to medium-sized common bats of the genera Myotis and Eptesicus, found worldwide in caves, trees, and buildings, including M. lucifugus (little brown bat) and E. fuscus (big brown bat) a widespread North American species.
  • bildungsroman — a novel concerned with a person's formative years and development
  • bitter orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
  • blamestorming — a discussion or meeting for the purpose of assigning blame.
  • board meeting — a meeting of the board of a company or other organization
  • boarding card — A boarding card is a card which a passenger must have when boarding a plane or a boat.
  • boarding fees — fees paid for boarding at a school
  • boarding pass — A boarding pass is a card that a passenger must have when boarding a plane or a boat.
  • boardinghouse — a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests
  • boiling range — A boiling range is the temperature range involved in the distillation of oil, from the start to the time when it evaporates.
  • book learning — knowledge gained from books rather than from direct personal experience
  • book-learning — knowledge acquired by reading books, as distinguished from that obtained through observation and experience.
  • boomerang kid — a young adult who, after having lived on his or her own for a time, returns to live in the parental home, usually due to financial problems caused by unemployment or the high cost of living independently
  • boraginaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Boraginaceae, a family of temperate and tropical typically hairy-leaved flowering plants that includes forget-me-not, lungwort, borage, comfrey, and heliotrope
  • bosman ruling — an EU ruling that allows out-of-contract footballers to leave their clubs without the clubs receiving a transfer fee
  • boudoir grand — a domestic grand piano between 5 and 6 feet in length
  • bouquet garni — A bouquet garni is a bunch of herbs that are tied together and used in cooking to add flavour to the food.
  • brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
  • brain surgeon — a surgeon who specializes in brain surgery
  • brainstorming — intensive discussion to solve problems or generate ideas
  • braking power — the ability of a braking system to cause a vehicle to come to a halt
  • branding iron — a long-handled metal rod with a stamp at one end, used for branding livestock, especially cattle, with a registered or recognized symbol or character to indicate ownership.
  • branding-iron — an iron heated and used for branding animals, etc
  • brassfounding — the practice of making things from brass
  • brazing alloy — a solder fusing at temperatures above 1200°F (650°C).
  • breechloading — loaded at the breech.
  • bridging loan — A bridging loan is money that a bank lends you for a short time, for example so that you can buy a new house before you have sold the one you already own.
  • brigham young — Andrew (Jackson, Jr.) born 1932, U.S. clergyman, civil-rights leader, politician, and diplomat: mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, 1981–89.
  • bring forward — If you bring forward a meeting or event, you arrange for it to take place at an earlier date or time than had been planned.
  • bring to bear — to bring into operation or effect
  • bring to pass — to cause to happen
  • brown bagging — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
  • brown-bagging — the practice of eating one's lunch or drinking a bottle of alcohol from a brown bag
  • burial ground — A burial ground is a place where bodies are buried, especially an ancient place.
  • canton ginger — preserved or crystallized ginger of fine quality.
  • carbo-loading — Informal. carbohydrate loading.
  • carbon dating — Carbon dating is a system of calculating the age of a very old object by measuring the amount of radioactive carbon it contains.
  • carcinologist — a person who specializes in carcinology
  • card clothing — a very sturdy fabric with a leather or rubber fillet imbedded with wire teeth for disentangling and cleaning textile fibers, used to cover the rollers or flats of a carding machine.
  • cariogenicity — conducive to the production or promotion of dental caries: the cariogenic factors in sweets.
  • carnot engine — an engine using a Carnot cycle of operations.
  • cartilaginous — of or like cartilage; gristly
  • cartiliginous — Alternative form of cartilaginous.
  • changing room — A changing room is a room where you can change your clothes and usually have a shower, for example at a sports centre.
  • charing cross — a district of London, in the city of Westminster: the modern cross (1863) in front of Charing Cross railway station replaces the one erected by Edward I (1290), the last of twelve marking the route of the funeral procession of his queen, Eleanor
  • chart-topping — very popular; coming top in the charts
  • cholangiogram — an X-ray of the bile duct performed after administering dye into the ducts that shows up on the X-ray
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