12-letter words containing a, l, e, g, i, n
- bible banger — Bible-thumper.
- bible-banger — Bible-thumper.
- billingsgate — the largest fish market in London, on the N bank of the River Thames; moved to new site at Canary Wharf in 1982 and the former building converted into offices
- bingo caller — the person who shouts out the numbers to bingo players
- blind flange — a disk for closing the end of a pipe, having holes for bolting it to a flange.
- bloomingdale — a town in NE Illinois.
- bluesnarfing — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to steal contact details, ring tones, images, etc from another
- boating lake — a lake in a park where rowing boats can be hired
- boilermaking — metal-working in heavy industry; plating or welding
- 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.
- 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.
- brake lining — a curved thin strip of an asbestos composition riveted to a brake shoe to provide it with a renewable surface
- cable-laying — involved in or connected to the activity of laying cables
- cablecasting — relating to broadcasting by cable
- caramelizing — Present participle of caramelize.
- cartwheeling — Present participle of cartwheel.
- caterwauling — the shrieking and yowling made by a cat, for example when it is on heat or fighting
- cell lineage — the developmental history of a tissue or part of an organism from particular cells in the fertilized egg or embryo through to their fully differentiated state
- centralising — Present participle of centralise.
- centralizing — Present participle of centralize.
- chalcogenide — a binary compound consisting of a chalcogen and at least one other electropositive element
- channelising — Present participle of channelise.
- channelizing — Present participle of channelize.
- cheerleading — the action or skill of a cheerleader.
- childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
- childrearing — the raising and parenting of children: Childrearing extends beyond simple guardianship to nurturing and guidance.
- cip language — language> (CIP-L, Computer-aided Intuition-guided Programming Language) A wide-spectrum language for incremental program transformation. There are ALGOL- and Pascal-like variants.
- cladogenesis — adaptive evolution leading to a greater variety of species
- cladogenetic — relating to cladogenesis
- clatteringly — With a clattering sound.
- claw setting — a jewellery setting with clawlike prongs
- clean eating — the practice of following a diet that contains only natural foods, and is low in sugar, salt, and fat
- clean-living — having a wholesome lifestyle
- clearcutting — the act of felling all trees in area
- cliff-hanger — a melodramatic or adventure serial in which each installment ends in suspense in order to interest the reader or viewer in the next installment.
- cliffhangers — Plural form of cliffhanger.
- closegrained — having a fine, compact grain or texture
- closing date — The closing date for a competition or offer is the final date by which entries or applications must be received.
- concealingly — in a concealing manner
- 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.
- congelations — Plural form of congelation.
- congenerical — congeneric
- congeniality — agreeable, suitable, or pleasing in nature or character: congenial surroundings.
- congenitally — of or relating to a condition present at birth, whether inherited or caused by the environment, especially the uterine environment.
- conglutinate — to cause (the edges of a wound or fracture) to join during the process of healing or (of the edges of a wound or fracture) to join during this process
- congruential — (mathematics) That uses congruency (division by a modulus).
- convalescing — to recover health and strength after illness; make progress toward recovery of health.
- crawling peg — a method of stabilizing exchange rates, prices, etc, by maintaining a fixed level for a specified period or until the level has persisted at an upper or lower limit for a specified period and then permitting a predetermined incremental rise or fall
- crenellating — Present participle of crenellate.