12-letter words containing b, e, g, i, n
- boxing glove — Boxing gloves are big padded gloves worn for boxing.
- brain damage — If someone suffers brain damage, their brain is damaged by an illness or injury so that they cannot function normally.
- brake lining — a curved thin strip of an asbestos composition riveted to a brake shoe to provide it with a renewable surface
- braunschweig — Brunswick
- breadwinning — a person who earns a livelihood, especially one who also supports dependents.
- breakdancing — a type of vigorous dance
- breathtaking — If you say that something is breathtaking, you are emphasizing that it is extremely beautiful or amazing.
- breckinridge — John Cabell1821-75; vice president of the U.S. (1857-61); Confederate general
- bronchogenic — bronchial in origin
- buccaneering — If you describe someone as buccaneering, you mean that they enjoy being involved in risky or even dishonest activities, especially in order to make money.
- bumping race — (esp at Oxford and Cambridge) a race in which rowing eights start an equal distance one behind the other and each tries to bump the boat in front
- bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
- butter icing — a mixture of butter and icing sugar used for filling or topping cakes
- buying order — an order to buy a certain security
- buying power — the amount of services or goods a company, person, group or currency is able to purchase
- buying spree — the hurried acquisition by a company, of goods, assets, or other companies
- buying-power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
- cable-laying — involved in or connected to the activity of laying cables
- cablecasting — relating to broadcasting by cable
- childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
- 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.
- cybercasting — the broadcasting of news, entertainment, etc., using the Internet, specifically the World Wide Web.
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- cybersurfing — The practice of using and browsing the Internet, especially as a habitual pastime.
- debilitating — tending to weaken or enfeeble
- debut single — the first single produced by a particular singer or band
- deliberating — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- demobilizing — Present participle of demobilize.
- denbighshire — a county of N Wales: split between Clwyd and Gwynedd in 1974; reinstated with different boundaries in 1996: borders the Irish Sea, with the Cambrian Mountains in the south: chiefly agricultural. Administrative centre: Ruthin. Pop: 94 900 (2003 est). Area: 844 sq km (327 sq miles)
- diabetogenic — causing or producing diabetes
- diffrangible — capable of being diffracted
- dining table — a table, especially one seating several persons, where meals are served and eaten, especially the major or more formal meals.
- disbelieving — to have no belief in; refuse or reject belief in: to disbelieve reports of UFO sightings.
- disburdening — Present participle of disburden.
- disembarking — Present participle of disembark.
- disembedding — Present participle of disembed.
- disembodying — Present participle of disembody.
- disembrangle — to disentangle (a person or thing)
- dismembering — Present participle of dismember.
- driving belt — a belt that carries movement from an engine or moving part to another moving part
- dunny budgie — a blowfly
- ear-grabbing — (of music) immediately capturing and holding the attention of listeners
- east bengali — of or relating to East Bengal (now Bangladesh) or its inhabitants
- eligibleness — Eligibility.
- embarrassing — Causing embarrassment.
- embellishing — Present participle of embellish.
- embroidering — Present participle of embroider.
- enabling act — a legislative act conferring certain specified powers on a person or organization
- engine block — the metal casting containing the piston chambers of an internal combustion engine
- english bond — a bond used in brickwork that has a course of headers alternating with a course of stretchers