12-letter words containing b, a, g, e
- enabling act — a legislative act conferring certain specified powers on a person or organization
- establishing — Present participle of establish.
- exacerbating — Present participle of exacerbate.
- exchangeable — Able to be exchanged.
- figured bass — a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them indicating the chords to be played.
- fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
- fire brigade — a group of firefighters, especially as formed temporarily or called upon to assist a fire department in an emergency.
- flabbergasts — Plural form of flabbergast.
- flabberghast — (archaic) Alternative form of flabbergast.
- flabergasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabergast.
- float bridge — a bridge, as from a pier to a boat, floating at one end and hinged at the other to permit loading and unloading at any level of water.
- forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
- forgeability — (metallurgy) The quality or degree of being forgeable.
- frigate bird — any of several predacious seabirds of the genus Fregata, having fully webbed feet.
- frigatebirds — Plural form of frigatebird.
- gable window — a window in or under a gable.
- gaboon viper — a large, venomous snake, Bitis gabonica, of tropical African forests, having large retractable fangs and geometrically patterned scales of yellow, brown, and sometimes purple.
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- gall bladder — a pear-shaped, muscular sac attached to the undersurface of the right lobe of the liver, in which bile is stored and concentrated.
- gallbladders — Plural form of gallbladder.
- gambling den — a building operating as a business where money can be staked on playing games of chance
- gamboge tree — any of several tropical Asian trees of the genus Garcinia, esp G. hanburyi, that yield this resin: family Clusiaceae
- gambrel roof — a gable roof, each side of which has a shallower slope above a steeper one. Compare mansard (def 1).
- gaming table — a table used for gambling, especially one designed with a game board and slots for chips.
- garbage dump — rubbish tip, place where refuse is disposed of
- garlic bread — baguette toasted with garlic and butter
- gastarbeiter — guest worker.
- gebrselassie — Haile (ˈhaɪlɪ). born 1973, Ethiopian athlete; won gold medals in the 10,000 metres at the Olympics (1996, 2000) and in four consecutive World Championships (1993–99)
- geelvink bay — former (Dutch) name of Sarera Bay.
- gene library — a collection of gene clones that represents the genetic material of an organism: used in genetic engineering
- generability — capable of being generated or produced.
- geneva bands — a pair of white lawn or linen strips hanging from the front of the neck or collar of some ecclesiastical and academic robes
- gentian blue — a purplish-blue colour
- geobotanical — of or relating to geobotany
- georges bank — a bank extending generally NE from Nantucket: fishing grounds. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- georgian bay — the NE part of Lake Huron, in Ontario, Canada. 6000 sq. mi. (15,500 sq. km).
- germanophobe — a person who hates or fears Germany, Germans, or German culture.
- get a bun on — to become drunk
- geyser basin — an area containing a group of geysers.
- gingerbreads — Plural form of gingerbread.
- gingerbready — Resembling or characteristic of gingerbread.
- glabrousness — The quality of being glabrous.
- glazing bead — a convex molding nailed against the edge of a pane of glass to hold it in place.
- global index — (filename extension) (gid) The filename extension of a Windows 95 "global index" file. .gid files are created by the help browser internal to Windows 95 (also available for other Windows versions) for WinHelp files (hlp), as well as for storing user preferences, such as window position.
- global reach — When people talk about the global reach of a company or industry, they mean its ability to have customers in many different parts of the world.
- gluten bread — bread made from gluten flour.
- go overboard — over the side of a ship or boat, especially into or in the water: to fall overboard.
- gold-beating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- gradeability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
- gravel-blind — more blind or dim-sighted than sand-blind and less than stone-blind.