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

  • bring to pass — to cause to happen
  • bronchography — radiography of the bronchial tubes after the introduction of a radiopaque medium into the bronchi
  • brown bagging — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
  • brown-bagging — the practice of eating one's lunch or drinking a bottle of alcohol from a brown bag
  • buccaneerings — the characteristic actions of a buccaneer
  • buck sergeant — a newly promoted sergeant
  • bully-ragging — to bully; harass: to bullyrag fraternity plebs.
  • burial ground — A burial ground is a place where bodies are buried, especially an ancient place.
  • burning glass — a convex lens for concentrating the sun's rays into a small area to produce heat or fire
  • bus mastering — bus master
  • carbo-loading — Informal. carbohydrate loading.
  • carbon dating — Carbon dating is a system of calculating the age of a very old object by measuring the amount of radioactive carbon it contains.
  • carpetbagging — relating to carpetbaggers or to the practice of carpetbaggers
  • chamber organ — a small compact organ used esp for the authentic performance of preclassical music
  • child-bearing — the act or process of carrying and giving birth to a child
  • clearing bank — The clearing banks are the main banks in Britain. Clearing banks use the central clearing house in London to deal with other banks.
  • clearing bath — any solution for removing material from the surface of a photographic image, as silver halide, metallic silver, or a dye or stain.
  • collaborating — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
  • congratulable — worthy of congratulation
  • cooling board — a plank for laying out a corpse.
  • corroborating — Present participle of corroborate.
  • cranberry bog — a bog in which cranberry plants are cultivated.
  • crepe bandage — a bandage made of light cotton crepe
  • curb exchange — American Stock Exchange.
  • cutting board — A cutting board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
  • cyberslacking — (informal) Use of the Internet during work hours for unrelated tasks.
  • cyberstalking — Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet to contact someone or find out information about them in a way that is annoying or frightening.
  • dangleberries — Plural form of dangleberry.
  • decarbonating — Present participle of decarbonate.
  • decarbonizing — Present participle of decarbonize.
  • decarburizing — Present participle of decarburize.
  • decerebrating — Present participle of decerebrate.
  • designer baby — People sometimes refer to a baby that has developed from an embryo with certain desired characteristics as a designer baby.
  • detribalizing — Present participle of detribalize.
  • disintegrable — Capable of being disintegrated.
  • 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.
  • edward gibbonEdward, 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.
  • fingerbreadth — the breadth of a finger: approximately 3/4 inch (2 cm).
  • flabergasting — Present participle of flabergast.
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