12-letter words containing a, n, g, l, e
- astringently — In the manner of an astringent.
- aurene glass — an iridescent American art glass colored gold and blue.
- autogenously — In an autogenous manner; spontaneously.
- backpedaling — to retard the forward motion by pressing backward on the pedal, especially of a bicycle with coaster brakes.
- badger plane — a plane for finishing rabbets or the like.
- ball bearing — Ball bearings are small metal balls placed between the moving parts of a machine to make the parts move smoothly.
- balladmonger — (formerly) a seller of ballads, esp on broadsheets
- bandy-legged — bow-legged
- barcalounger — a type of reclinable armchair with an extendable footrest
- bargain sale — an event at which goods are sold at low prices, usually to clear old stocks
- 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.
- battle wagon — a battleship.
- battleground — A battleground is the same as a battlefield.
- battlewagons — Plural form of battlewagon.
- beacon light — a light signal for shipping
- bead molding — bead (def 12).
- bearing pile — a foundation pile that supports weight vertically
- bearing rail — a transverse rail carrying a drawer or drawers.
- bearing wall — any of the walls supporting a floor or the roof of a building.
- belaying pin — a cylindrical, sometimes tapered pin, usually of metal or wood, that fits into a hole in a pin or fife rail: used for belaying
- beleaguering — to surround with military forces.
- belgian hare — a large red breed of domestic rabbit
- bell gardens — a town in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- belly-aching — Informal. a pain in the abdomen or bowels.
- bengal light — a firework or flare that burns with a steady bright blue light, formerly used as a signal
- bengal tiger — a large tiger found in S. Asia
- benzal group — the bivalent group C 7 H 6 –, derived from benzaldehyde.
- 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
- black tongue — canine pellagra.
- blaze orange — a very bright orange, as on a traffic cone.
- blind flange — a disk for closing the end of a pipe, having holes for bolting it to a flange.
- 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.
- 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
- bog of allen — a region of peat bogs in central Ireland, west of Dublin. Area: over 10 sq km (3.75 sq miles)
- boilermaking — metal-working in heavy industry; plating or welding
- bonnet glass — monteith (def 2).
- bonnet-glass — a large punch bowl, usually of silver, having a notched rim for suspending punch cups.
- 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
- by and large — You use by and large to indicate that a statement is mostly but not completely true.
- cable length — a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
- cable-laying — involved in or connected to the activity of laying cables
- cablecasting — relating to broadcasting by cable