11-letter words containing a, r, g
- bridge lamp — a floor lamp, especially one having the light source on an arm so hinged as to be horizontally adjustable.
- bridge loan — A bridge 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.
- bridgeboard — a board on both sides of a staircase that is cut to support the treads and risers
- bridgewater — a town in E Massachusetts.
- bright coal — coal consisting of alternating layers of clarain and vitrain.
- bright idea — suggestion: clever
- bring about — To bring something about means to cause it to happen.
- bring along — If you bring someone or something along, you bring them with you when you come to a place.
- brisingamen — the magic necklace worn by Freya.
- broad gauge — a railway track with a greater distance between the lines than the standard gauge of 561⁄2 inches (about 1.44 metres) used now by most mainline railway systems
- broad glass — cylinder glass.
- broad-gauge — Railroads. of or relating to equipment designed for a railroad having track of a broad gauge: broad-gauge rolling stock.
- brobdingnag — in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, a land inhabited by giants about 60 feet tall
- browbeating — to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing.
- brown algae — any algae of the phylum Phaeophyta, such as the wracks and kelps, which contain a brown pigment in addition to chlorophyll
- brown sugar — Brown sugar is sugar that has not been refined, or is only partly refined. It is golden brown in color.
- bucaramanga — a city in N central Colombia, in the Cordillera Oriental: centre of a district growing coffee, tobacco, and cotton. Pop: 1 069 000 (2005 est)
- bukhara rug — a kind of rug, typically having a black-and-white geometrical pattern on a reddish ground
- bunch grass — any of various grasses that grow in tufts
- bungstarter — a mallet for loosening or removing the bung of a cask.
- burglarious — of, constituting, or inclined to burglary
- burgomaster — the chief magistrate of a town in Austria, Belgium, Germany, or the Netherlands; mayor
- burnt sugar — caramel
- bushranging — the life of a bushranger
- cabbageworm — any caterpillar that feeds on cabbages, esp that of the cabbage white
- cacogastric — relating to an upset stomach
- cacographic — Displaying the properties of bad spelling or bad handwriting or both.
- calcigerous — containing lime or other salts
- calendaring — a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar.
- calendering — a machine in which cloth, paper, or the like, is smoothed, glazed, etc., by pressing between rotating cylinders.
- calf roping — a timed rodeo event in which a mounted rider chases and lassos a calf, dismounts, and throws the calf to the ground, tying three of the animal's legs with a short length of rope.
- calibrating — Mark (a gauge or instrument) with a standard scale of readings.
- calligramme — words arranged to form a picture
- calligraphy — Calligraphy is the art of producing beautiful handwriting using a brush or a special pen.
- calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
- camel grass — a grass, Cymbopogon schoenanthus, of southern Asia and northern Africa, having fragrant foliage.
- campaigners — Plural form of campaigner.
- campgrounds — Plural form of campground.
- canal barge — a long narrow boat used on canals, esp for carrying freight
- cancer gene — oncogene.
- caneworking — A glassblowing technique that uses rods of coloured glass to add intricate patterns and stripes to blown glass objects.
- caprimulgid — (zoology) Any of the Caprimulgidae, or nightjar family.
- car bombing — an instance when a bomb which someone has hidden under or in a car explodes
- caravanning — Caravanning is the activity of having a holiday in a caravan.
- carbonating — Present participle of carbonate.
- carbonizing — Present participle of carbonize.
- carcinogens — Plural form of carcinogen.
- carcinology — the study of crustaceans
- cardiogenic — originating in the heart, or resulting from a disorder of the heart
- cardiograms — Plural form of cardiogram.