12-letter words containing b, a, i, g, o
- born-digital — relating to or noting documents, images, etc., that are created and managed in electronic form: electronic preservation of born-digital content; a born-digital e-book that will not be available in print.
- bougainville — an island in the W Pacific, in Papua New Guinea: the largest of the Solomon Islands: unilaterally declared independence in 1990; occupied by government troops in 1992, and granted autonomy in 2001. Chief town: Kieta. Area: 10 049 sq km (3880 sq miles)
- boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
- bowling ball — a round, heavy ball for bowling, usually made of hard rubber or plastic, with holes drilled into it for the bowler's thumb and two fingers.
- box magazine — a rectangular cartridge holder in a submachine or light machine gun.
- boxing match — a competition between two boxers
- braggadocios — empty boasting; bragging.
- bring action — to start a lawsuit
- bring around — If you bring someone around when they are unconscious, you make them become conscious again.
- bring to bay — to force into a position from which retreat is impossible
- broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
- brown bag it — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
- buccolingual — of or relating to the cheek and tongue.
- bur marigold — any plant of the genus Bidens that has yellow flowers and pointed fruits that cling to fur and clothing: family Asteraceae (composites)
- cabriole leg — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
- carbonadoing — Present participle of carbonado.
- charbroiling — Present participle of charbroil.
- clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
- coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
- cohabitating — cohabit.
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- conglobation — Formation into a ball, globe or rounded mass.
- corbie gable — a gable having corbie-steps
- crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
- crossbarring — stripes, esp those of an animal
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- diabetogenic — causing or producing diabetes
- dialogue box — a window that may appear on a VDU display to prompt the user to enter further information or select an option
- diving board — a springboard.
- fibromyalgia — a syndrome characterized by fatigue and chronic pain in the muscles and in tissues surrounding the joints.
- fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
- fishing boat — vessel: for fishing
- 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.
- floating rib — one member of the two lowest pairs of ribs, which are attached neither to the sternum nor to the cartilages of other ribs.
- forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
- forgeability — (metallurgy) The quality or degree of being forgeable.
- 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.
- gainsborough — Thomas, 1727–88, English painter.
- gallows bird — a person who deserves to be hanged.
- garbological — Of or relating to garbology.
- geobotanical — of or relating to geobotany
- georgian bay — the NE part of Lake Huron, in Ontario, Canada. 6000 sq. mi. (15,500 sq. km).
- 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.
- glioblastoma — A highly invasive glioma in the brain.
- 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.
- glossophobia — The fear of public speaking.
- go ballistic — of or relating to ballistics.
- go-away bird — a common name for a grey-plumaged lourie of the genus Corythaixoides
- gold-beating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.