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13-letter words containing a, r, s, g

  • brass rubbing — A brass rubbing is a picture made by placing a piece of paper over a brass plate that has writing or a picture on it, and rubbing it with a wax crayon.
  • brass-rubbing — an antiquarian's technique for copying designs from incised brass memorial slabs and the like.
  • brassfounding — the practice of making things from brass
  • breaking news — news of events that have taken place very recently or are in the process of taking place
  • breakthroughs — a military movement or advance all the way through and beyond an enemy's front-line defense.
  • brief against — If someone, especially a politician, briefs against another person, he or she tries to harm the other person's reputation by saying something unfavourable about them.
  • bring to pass — to cause to happen
  • bristle-grass — any of various grasses of the genus Setaria, such as S. viridis, having a bristly inflorescence
  • buccaneerings — the characteristic actions of a buccaneer
  • buck sergeant — a newly promoted sergeant
  • buffalo grass — a short grass, Buchloë dactyloides, growing on the dry plains of the central US
  • burgess shale — a bed of Cambrian sedimentary rock in the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia containing many unique invertebrate fossils
  • burglariously — in the manner of a burglar or buglary
  • burmese glass — an American art glass of the late 19th century, ranging from greenish-yellow to pink.
  • burning glass — a convex lens for concentrating the sun's rays into a small area to produce heat or fire
  • bus mastering — bus master
  • cache storage — cache (def 3).
  • calligraphist — fancy penmanship, especially highly decorative handwriting, as with a great many flourishes: She appreciated the calligraphy of the 18th century.
  • candle grease — the wax which is used in the manufacture of candles
  • capsule range — a small range of clothes by a particular designer, intended to be representative of the full range
  • carcinologist — a person who specializes in carcinology
  • cardiganshire — a former county of W Wales: became part of Dyfed in 1974; reinstated as Ceredigion in 1996
  • cardinal sign — any of the four astrological signs, Aries, Cancer, Libra, or Capricorn, that begin at the equinoxes and solstices, thus marking the beginning of the seasons: characterized by the attribute of strong initiative.
  • cardiologists — Plural form of cardiologist.
  • carpetbaggers — U.S. History. a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War and became active in Republican politics, especially so as to profiteer from the unsettled social and political conditions of the area during Reconstruction.
  • carrickfergus — a town in E Northern Ireland, in Carrickfergus district, Co Antrim; historic settlement of Scottish Protestants on Belfast Lough; Norman castle. Pop: 27 201 (2001)
  • cartilaginous — of or like cartilage; gristly
  • cartiliginous — Alternative form of cartilaginous.
  • cartographers — Plural form of cartographer.
  • cascade range — a chain of mountains in the US and Canada: a continuation of the Sierra Nevada range from N California through Oregon and Washington to British Columbia. Highest peak: Mount Rainier, 4392 m (14 408 ft)
  • casehardening — Present participle of caseharden.
  • cash register — A cash register is a machine in a shop, pub, or restaurant that is used to add up and record how much money people pay, and in which the money is kept.
  • casing hanger — A casing hanger is the part of a wellhead that supports the casing string.
  • casing string — A casing string is a series of lengths of steel pipe which are fitted together and put into a well.
  • catalog verse — verse made by compiling long lists of everyday objects, names, or events, united by a common theme and often didactic in tone.
  • categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
  • cellar fungus — a fungus, Coniophora puteana, that causes dry rot in timber.
  • cerynean stag — a stag living in Arcadia, captured by Hercules as one of his labors.
  • charing cross — a district of London, in the city of Westminster: the modern cross (1863) in front of Charing Cross railway station replaces the one erected by Edward I (1290), the last of twelve marking the route of the funeral procession of his queen, Eleanor
  • chasse gardee — a private hunting preserve.
  • cheese grater — an implement for grating cheese
  • chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
  • chirographist — a person who studies or who is knowledgeable about handwriting styles
  • chromatograms — Plural form of chromatogram.
  • cigarette ash — the ash created by smoking a cigarette
  • cinema goers' — filmgoer.
  • circularising — Present participle of circularise.
  • circumambages — round-about methods
  • clear-sighted — If you describe someone as clear-sighted, you admire them because they are able to understand situations well and to make sensible judgments and decisions about them.
  • clearing sale — the auction of plant, stock, and effects of a country property, esp after the property has changed hands
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