13-letter words containing a, l, g, r, o
- bibliographic — a complete or selective list of works compiled upon some common principle, as authorship, subject, place of publication, or printer.
- bildungsroman — a novel concerned with a person's formative years and development
- biodegradable — Something that is biodegradable breaks down or decays naturally without any special scientific treatment, and can therefore be thrown away without causing pollution.
- blamestorming — a discussion or meeting for the purpose of assigning blame.
- block diagram — a diagram showing the interconnections between the parts of an industrial process
- blue grosbeak — a grosbeak, Guiraca caerulea, of the U.S., Mexico, and Central America, the male of which is blue with two rusty bars on each wing.
- 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.
- borage family — any member of the plant family Boraginaceae, typified by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having simple, alternate, hairy leaves and usually blue, five-lobed flowers in a cluster that uncoils as they bloom, including borage, bugloss, and forget-me-not.
- bosman ruling — an EU ruling that allows out-of-contract footballers to leave their clubs without the clubs receiving a transfer fee
- boutros-ghali — ˈBoutros (ˈbutroʊs ) ; bo̅oˈtrōs) 1922- ; Egypt. diplomat: secretary-general of the United Nations (1992-96)
- brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
- 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.
- buffalo grass — a short grass, Buchloë dactyloides, growing on the dry plains of the central US
- buffalo grove — a city in NE Illinois.
- burglar-proof — designed to be secure and to frustrate any attempted burglary
- burglariously — in the manner of a burglar or buglary
- burial ground — A burial ground is a place where bodies are buried, especially an ancient place.
- cacodyl group — the univalent group (CH 3) 2 As−, derived from arsine.
- cacographical — Synonym of cacographic.
- canon regular — a clergyman of certain religious communities following a monastic rule
- cape marigold — any composite plant of the genus Dimorphotheca, having variously colored, daisylike flowers.
- carbo-loading — Informal. carbohydrate loading.
- 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.
- cardiological — the study of the heart and its functions in health and disease.
- cardiologists — Plural form of cardiologist.
- cardiomegalia — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
- carriage bolt — a round-headed bolt for timber, threaded along part of its shank, inserted into holes already drilled.
- cartilaginous — of or like cartilage; gristly
- cartiliginous — Alternative form of cartilaginous.
- catalog verse — verse made by compiling long lists of everyday objects, names, or events, united by a common theme and often didactic in tone.
- categorically — without exceptions or conditions; absolute; unqualified and unconditional: a categorical denial.
- categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
- categorizable — Capable of being categorized.
- charcoal grey — a very dark grey colour
- chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
- chlorargyrite — a mineral, the naturally occurring form of silver chloride, formed in the oxidation process of silver
- cholangiogram — an X-ray of the bile duct performed after administering dye into the ducts that shows up on the X-ray
- chronological — If things are described or shown in chronological order, they are described or shown in the order in which they happened.
- clear-coating — an automotive painting technique in which a coating of clear lacquer or other synthetic liquid is applied over the base color to enhance the shine and durability of the paint.
- clearing loan — a bank loan to finance the purchase of securities which is repayable within the calendar day on which it is made.
- clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- climatography — an account of a region's climate
- close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
- coat-trailing — provocative or contentious writing, speech, behavior, etc.
- collaborating — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.