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12-letter words containing b, a, g, n

  • get a bun on — to become drunk
  • geyser basin — an area containing a group of geysers.
  • gibraltarian — a British crown colony comprising a fortress and seaport located on a narrow promontory near the S tip of Spain. 1.875 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
  • gingerbreads — Plural form of gingerbread.
  • gingerbready — Resembling or characteristic of gingerbread.
  • glabrousness — The quality of being glabrous.
  • glassblowing — the art or process of forming or shaping a mass of molten or heat-softened glass into ware by blowing air into it through a tube.
  • 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.
  • gluten bread — bread made from gluten flour.
  • gold-beating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
  • gondola back — a chair or couch back curving forward and downward to form arms.
  • grand bahama — an island in the NW Bahamas. 430 sq. mi. (1115 sq. km).
  • grand kabuki — kabuki (def 2).
  • granuloblast — an immature granulocyte.
  • gravel-blind — more blind or dim-sighted than sand-blind and less than stone-blind.
  • graybar land — (jargon)   The place you go while you're staring at a computer that's processing something very slowly (while you watch the grey bar creep across the screen). "I was in graybar land for hours, waiting for that CAD rendering".
  • grecian bend — (especially in the late 19th century) a posture or walk, often considered fashionable, in which the body is bent forward from the waist.
  • greenbackism — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
  • grindability — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
  • ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
  • gubernacular — relating to a gubernaculum
  • gubernaculum — a part or organ that directs the movement or course of another part.
  • gum-benjamin — Also called gum benjamin, gum benzoin. a reddish-brown, aromatic balsamic resin occurring in almondlike fragments and having a vanillalike odor, obtained from trees of the genus Styrax, especially S. benzoin, of Java, Sumatra, etc.: used in the manufacture of perfume and cosmetics and in medicine internally as an expectorant and externally as an antiseptic.
  • habilitating — Present participle of habilitate.
  • half binding — a type of book binding consisting of a leather binding on the spine and, sometimes, the corners, with paper or cloth sides.
  • half-binding — a type of book binding consisting of a leather binding on the spine and, sometimes, the corners, with paper or cloth sides.
  • hand baggage — the suitcases, bags, etc, that you take with you onto an aeroplane when you travel, as opposed to those bags that are put in the aeroplane's hold
  • hangchow bay — a bay of the East China Sea.
  • haptoglobins — Plural form of haptoglobin.
  • harbingering — Present participle of harbinger.
  • harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
  • heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
  • heating bill — a bill for the supply of energy to heat a building
  • herring boat — a fishing boat that specializes in catching herring
  • home banking — a system whereby a person at home or in an office can use a computer with a modem to call up information from a bank or to transfer funds electronically
  • honey badger — ratel.
  • hunt sabbing — the activity of sabotaging a hunt due to the belief that animals should not be harmed by humans
  • ignitability — to set on fire; kindle.
  • in a big way — very much, greatly
  • incoagulable — of a nature that cannot be coagulated
  • incognizable — Not cognizable; incapable of being recognised.
  • inexpugnable — incapable of being taken by force; impregnable; unconquerable.
  • interrobangs — Plural form of interrobang.
  • interrogable — capable of being interrogated
  • investigable — capable of being investigated.
  • jacobinizing — Present participle of jacobinize.
  • jailbreaking — Present participle of jailbreak.
  • jaw-breaking — Informal. a word that is hard to pronounce.
  • johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
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