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12-letter words containing b, e, t, a, g

  • breath group — a sequence of sounds articulated in the course of a single exhalation; an utterance or part of an utterance produced between pauses for breath.
  • breathtaking — If you say that something is breathtaking, you are emphasizing that it is extremely beautiful or amazing.
  • bridge party — a gathering for the purpose of playing bridge
  • bridge table — a square card table with folding legs.
  • bugger about — If someone buggers about or buggers around, they waste time doing unnecessary things.
  • burnt orange — of a dark orange colour, sometimes due to calcination of orange pigment
  • cabbage moth — a common brownish noctuid moth, Mamestra brassicae, the larva of which is destructive of cabbages and other plants
  • cabbage tree — a tree, Cordyline australis, of New Zealand having a tall branchless trunk and a palmlike top
  • cable length — a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
  • cablecasting — relating to broadcasting by cable
  • carpetbagged — Simple past tense and past participle of carpetbag.
  • carpetbagger — If you call someone a carpetbagger, you disapprove of them because they are trying to become a politician in an area which is not their home, simply because they think they are more likely to succeed there.
  • cobalt green — a medium, yellowish-green color.
  • conglobulate — to form into a globe or ball
  • cybercasting — the broadcasting of news, entertainment, etc., using the Internet, specifically the World Wide Web.
  • debilitating — tending to weaken or enfeeble
  • deliberating — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
  • diabetogenic — causing or producing diabetes
  • dining table — a table, especially one seating several persons, where meals are served and eaten, especially the major or more formal meals.
  • disambiguate — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
  • double agent — a person who spies on a country while pretending to spy for it.
  • draught beer — beer which is stored in bulk, esp in a cask, as opposed to being bottled
  • early blight — a disease of plants characterized by leaf spotting, defoliation, and stunted growth, caused by any of several fungi, as Alternaria solani or Cercospora apii.
  • east bengali — of or relating to East Bengal (now Bangladesh) or its inhabitants
  • egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
  • enabling act — a legislative act conferring certain specified powers on a person or organization
  • establishing — Present participle of establish.
  • exacerbating — Present participle of exacerbate.
  • flabbergasts — Plural form of flabbergast.
  • flabberghast — (archaic) Alternative form of flabbergast.
  • flabergasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabergast.
  • 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.
  • forgeability — (metallurgy) The quality or degree of being forgeable.
  • frigate bird — any of several predacious seabirds of the genus Fregata, having fully webbed feet.
  • frigatebirds — Plural form of frigatebird.
  • gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
  • gamboge tree — any of several tropical Asian trees of the genus Garcinia, esp G. hanburyi, that yield this resin: family Clusiaceae
  • gaming table — a table used for gambling, especially one designed with a game board and slots for chips.
  • gastarbeiter — guest worker.
  • generability — capable of being generated or produced.
  • gentian blue — a purplish-blue colour
  • geobotanical — of or relating to geobotany
  • get a bun on — to become drunk
  • gluten bread — bread made from gluten flour.
  • gold-beating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
  • gradeability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
  • great gatsby — a novel (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
  • heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
  • heating bill — a bill for the supply of energy to heat a building
  • herring boat — a fishing boat that specializes in catching herring
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