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

  • bargain price — a low price
  • barnsbreaking — noisy and exuberant activity; boisterous mischief-making
  • 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.
  • barrel engine — an engine having cylinders arranged around and parallel to a shaft, which they rotate by means of the contact of their piston rods with a swash plate or cam on the shaft.
  • basal ganglia — the thalamus together with other closely related masses of grey matter, situated near the base of the brain
  • base exchange — a nonprofit general store at a military base, for the sale of merchandise for personal use, refreshments, etc.
  • basic english — a simplified form of English, proposed by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, containing a vocabulary of approximately 850 of the commonest English words, intended as an international language
  • basking shark — a very large plankton-eating shark, Cetorhinus maximus, often floating at the sea surface: family Cetorhinidae
  • bastard eigne — the first-born illegitimate son of parents whose second son was legitimate.
  • battering ram — A battering ram is a long heavy piece of wood that is used to knock down the locked doors of buildings.
  • battering-ram — an ancient military device with a heavy horizontal ram for battering down walls, gates, etc.
  • 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.
  • bay of bengal — a wide arm of the Indian Ocean, between India and Myanmar
  • bay of gdańsk — a wide inlet of the Baltic Sea on the N coast of Poland
  • bcg (vaccine) — a vaccine prepared from an attenuated strain of the tubercle bacillus, used for immunization against tuberculosis
  • be hard going — If you say that something is hard going, you mean it is difficult and requires a lot of effort.
  • be upstanding — (in a court of law) a direction to all persons present to rise to their feet before the judge enters or leaves the court
  • beaking joint — a straight joint made by several members, as strips of flooring, ending at the same line.
  • beanbag chair — a chair like a large beanbag covered with vinyl, fabric, etc. and filled with foam pellets, as of polystyrene, that shift about to fit one's body
  • bearing plate — a heavy metal plate for receiving and distributing concentrated weight, as from a column or one end of a truss.
  • bearing sword — a large sword carried for its owner by a squire or servant because of its size.
  • bedding plane — the surface separating two successive layers of stratified rock
  • bedding plant — A bedding plant is a plant which lasts for one year. It is put in a flower bed before it flowers, and is then removed when it has finished flowering.
  • bedding-plant — bedmaker (def 1).
  • beleaguerment — a blockade or siege
  • belgian congo — former Belgian colony (1908-60) in central Africa: now the country of Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • belly landing — the landing of an aircraft on its fuselage without use of its landing gear
  • bengal quince — bael.
  • benthopelagic — relating to species living at the bottom of the sea
  • berchtesgaden — a town in Germany, in SE Bavaria: site of the fortified mountain retreat of Adolf Hitler. Pop: 7667 (2003 est)
  • bergamot mint — an aromatic herb, Mentha piperita citrata, having a lemonlike odor when crushed.
  • bering strait — a strait between Alaska and Russia, connecting the Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean
  • beta globulin — a blood plasma protein that is separable from other globulins by electrophoresis.
  • beta-blocking — acting to inhibit the activity of the nerves that are stimulated by adrenaline
  • bethnal green — a former borough of London, England, N of the Thames.
  • bible reading — a passage from the Bible, esp one read in a service
  • 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.
  • big enchilada — enchilada (def 2).
  • bignoniaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Bignoniaceae, a chiefly tropical family of trees, shrubs, and lianas, including jacaranda, bignonia, and catalpa
  • bildungsroman — a novel concerned with a person's formative years and development
  • bird-watching — Bird-watching is the activity of watching and studying wild birds in their natural surroundings.
  • birectangular — having two right angles.
  • birthing ball — a large soft rubber ball used by women during childbirth to give support and to aid pain relief
  • bitonal image — (graphics)   An image consisting only of a foreground colour and a background colour. Compare monochrome.
  • bitter orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
  • black english — the group of related dialects of American English spoken variously by many black people in the U.S.
  • black pudding — Black pudding is a thick sausage which has a black skin and is made from pork fat and pig's blood.
  • blacksmithing — the work of a blacksmith.
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