13-letter words containing b, a, g, n
- decarburizing — Present participle of decarburize.
- decerebrating — Present participle of decerebrate.
- demothballing — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.
- designer baby — People sometimes refer to a baby that has developed from an embryo with certain desired characteristics as a designer baby.
- desobligeante — a type of carriage seating only one person
- destabilising — Present participle of destabilise.
- destabilizing — Present participle of destabilize.
- detribalizing — Present participle of detribalize.
- disassembling — Present participle of disassemble.
- disintegrable — Capable of being disintegrated.
- disobligation — the state of being without obligation
- double magnum — Jeroboam (def 2).
- double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
- dragging-beam — (in a hipped roof) a short beam holding the foot of a hip rafter to counteract its thrust.
- drainage tube — a tube that drains fluid from an incision or body cavity during surgery
- drawing board — a rectangular board on which paper is placed or mounted for drawing or drafting.
- drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
- eating habits — the way a person or group eats, considered in terms of what types of food are eaten, in what quantities, and when
- eco-labelling — the practice or system of using eco-labels
- edward gibbon — Edward, 1737–94, English historian.
- elgin marbles — a group of 5th-century bc Greek sculptures originally decorating the Parthenon in Athens, brought to England by Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin (1766–1841), and now at the British Museum
- embracingness — the quality of something that embraces
- embranglement — Embroilment, entanglement; the state of being or getting embrangled.
- encourageable — Able to be encouraged; suggestible.
- ensign-bearer — a soldier whose responsibility was to carry a Company's ensign
- equilibrating — Present participle of equilibrate.
- erin go bragh — Ireland forever
- fast-breaking — (of a news story) occurring suddenly, and often portending a series of events or further developments in rapid succession.
- fatigableness — the quality of being fatigable
- fingerbreadth — the breadth of a finger: approximately 3/4 inch (2 cm).
- fishing banks — a place where fish are abundant, as off Newfoundland
- flabergasting — Present participle of flabergast.
- floating debt — short-term government borrowing, esp by the issue of three-month Treasury bills
- floating ribs — the eleventh and twelfth pairs of ribs, not attached to the breastbone or to other ribs but only to the vertebrae
- flooring brad — a brad having a very small head, made in lengths from 2 to 4 inches (5 to 10 cm).
- flying boxcar — a large airplane designed to carry cargo.
- fooling about — the act of speaking or acting in a playful, teasing, or jesting manner
- galveston bay — an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico.
- garden balsam — a fleshy annual garden impatiens (Impatiens balsamina) with roselike white, lavender, yellow, pink, or red blossoms borne along the main stem in leaf axils
- garden suburb — a suburb of a large established town or city, planned along the lines of a garden city
- ge-pano-carib — a linguistic phylum comprising a large number of aboriginal languages with scattered distribution in South America east of the Andes.
- gelada baboon — a NE African baboon, Theropithecus gelada, with dark brown hair forming a mane over the shoulders, a bare red chest, and a ridged muzzle: family Cercopithecidae
- gender binary — a classification system consisting of two genders, male and female.
- generalisable — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizable.
- generalizable — to infer (a general principle, trend, etc.) from particular facts, statistics, or the like.
- germinability — the degree of ability of a seed to germinate or sprout.
- gerontophobia — a fear of old people.
- get a bead on — a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
- gingerbreaded — flavoured with gingerbread
- gladstone bag — a small rectangular suitcase hinged to open into two compartments of equal size.