13-letter words containing b, g, s
- subastringent — slightly astringent.
- subcategorize — to split into subcategories
- subcollegiate — of, relating to, or characteristic of subcollege students or a subcollege
- subcontiguous — almost touching; nearly contiguous.
- subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
- subgeneration — a generation within another generation
- subgovernment — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- subjectifying — to make subjective.
- subtriangular — almost triangular;not quite triangular
- supreme being — God.
- surge chamber — a chamber for absorbing surge from a liquid or gas.
- surgical boot — a specially designed boot or shoe that compensates for deformities of the foot or leg
- swamp cabbage — skunk cabbage.
- swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
- swedenborgian — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
- swimming bath — swimming pool.
- swimming crab — any of numerous, chiefly marine crabs, especially of the family Portunidae, having the legs adapted for swimming.
- symbolography — the writing of symbolic characters or tracing of symbolic figures
- table setting — a set of cutlery, glasses, napkin, etc. for one person, as used on a table
- testing bench — a piece of equipment for testing if a machine or device is working properly
- the big house — a penitentiary (usually preceded by the).
- the big issue — a weekly magazine, founded to highlight the plight of the homeless, and sold by homeless people
- the big smoke — a large city, esp London
- the gas board — any company supplying gas as a source of domestic and industrial heat
- thorough bass — figured bass.
- thumb-sucking — a person who habitually sucks a thumb.
- to bust a gut — To bust a gut means to work very hard trying to achieve something.
- toothbrushing — the act or method of cleaning the teeth with a toothbrush.
- unambiguously — plainly, clearly
- unassuageable — not able to be assuaged or relieved
- unbeseemingly — in an unbeseeming or unbefitting manner
- undiagnosable — unable to be diagnosed
- undisguisable — to change the appearance or guise of so as to conceal identity or mislead, as by means of deceptive garb: The king was disguised as a peasant.
- ungainsayable — irrefutable
- unsalvageable — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
- unstabilizing — to make or hold stable, firm, or steadfast.
- visible light — the part of the electromagnetic spectrum that humans perceive
- von sternberg — Josef [joh-zuh f,, -suh f] /ˈdʒoʊ zəf,, -səf/ (Show IPA), or Joseph (Josef Stern) 1894–1969, U.S. film director and screenwriter, born in Austria.
- wedding bells — church bells that peal after marriage ceremony
- weights bench — a piece of equipment for use by someone who is weight-training
- woebegoneness — The quality of being woebegone.