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

  • athenagoras i — (Aristocles Spyrou) 1886–1972, Archbishop Ecumenical of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church 1948–72.
  • atherogenesis — (medicine) The formation of atheromas, especially on the walls of the arteries.
  • atomic energy — nuclear energy
  • auctioneering — Present participle of auctioneer.
  • backgrounders — Plural form of backgrounder.
  • backgrounding — Present participle of background.
  • backing group — a group of musicians providing an instrumental or vocal accompaniment for a pop singer
  • 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
  • bacteriogenic — Caused by bacteria.
  • baking powder — Baking powder is an ingredient used in cake making. It causes cakes to rise when they are in the oven.
  • band together — If people band together, they meet and act as a group in order to try and achieve something.
  • banking hours — the hours during which a bank is open for business
  • bargain offer — something for sale at a low price
  • barnyard golf — Informal: Facetious. the game of horseshoes.
  • baroque organ — a pipe organ dating from or built to the specifications of the baroque period at the time of J. S. Bach.
  • batting order — the sequence in which hitters will bat in a given game, determined in advance by the team manager.
  • battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
  • 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
  • bohr magneton — a unit that is used to indicate the magnetic moment of the electron structure in an atom, equal to 9.27 × 10 −21 erg/gauss.
  • 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.
  • bourdon gauge — a type of aneroid pressure gauge consisting of a flattened curved tube attached to a pointer that moves around a dial. As the pressure in the tube increases the tube tends to straighten and the pointer indicates the applied pressure
  • 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
  • branded goods — goods that are identifiable as being the product of a particular manufacturer or marketing company
  • 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.
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