12-letter words containing b, h, 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 chair — a lightweight folding chair, often part of a set of matching chairs and bridge table.
- brigham city — a city in N Utah.
- bright spark — If you say that some bright spark had a particular idea or did something, you mean that their idea or action was clever, or that it seemed clever but was silly in some way.
- burning ghat — a platform at the top of a riverside ghat where Hindus cremate their dead.
- bush leaguer — Also called busher. Baseball. a player in a minor league. an incompetent player, as one who behaves or plays as if he or she belonged in a minor league.
- bush-leaguer — (in baseball) someone who plays in a minor league
- bushwhacking — to make one's way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc.
- cabbage moth — a common brownish noctuid moth, Mamestra brassicae, the larva of which is destructive of cabbages and other plants
- cable length — a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
- chambersburg — a city in central Pennsylvania.
- changing bag — a lightproof bag with openings made to fit closely around the arms, used in place of a darkroom in some photographic procedures.
- charbroiling — Present participle of charbroil.
- charlesbourg — city in S Quebec, Canada: pop. 71,000
- childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
- chinning bar — a piece of equipment used for doing pull-ups
- cohabitating — cohabit.
- draught beer — beer which is stored in bulk, esp in a cask, as opposed to being bottled
- draughtboard — checkerboard (def 1).
- 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.
- establishing — Present participle of establish.
- exchangeable — Able to be exchanged.
- fishing boat — vessel: for fishing
- flabberghast — (archaic) Alternative form of flabbergast.
- gainsborough — Thomas, 1727–88, English painter.
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- germanophobe — a person who hates or fears Germany, Germans, or German culture.
- global reach — When people talk about the global reach of a company or industry, they mean its ability to have customers in many different parts of the world.
- glossophobia — The fear of public speaking.
- graft hybrid — a hybrid plant that is produced by grafting and that exhibits characters of both the stock and the scion.
- grand bahama — an island in the NW Bahamas. 430 sq. mi. (1115 sq. km).
- graphophobia — Fear or dislike of writing.
- habilitating — Present participle of habilitate.
- half binding — a type of book binding consisting of a leather binding on the spine and, sometimes, the corners, with paper or cloth sides.
- half-binding — a type of book binding consisting of a leather binding on the spine and, sometimes, the corners, with paper or cloth sides.
- hand baggage — the suitcases, bags, etc, that you take with you onto an aeroplane when you travel, as opposed to those bags that are put in the aeroplane's hold
- hangchow bay — a bay of the East China Sea.
- haptoglobins — Plural form of haptoglobin.
- harbingering — Present participle of harbinger.
- harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
- heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
- heating bill — a bill for the supply of energy to heat a building
- hedda gabler — a play (1890) by Henrik Ibsen.
- heliogabalus — (Varius Avitus Bassianus"Marcus Aurelius Antoninus") a.d. 204–222, Roman emperor 218–222.
- herring boat — a fishing boat that specializes in catching herring
- high-ability — (of a student) having a higher than average ability
- home banking — a system whereby a person at home or in an office can use a computer with a modem to call up information from a bank or to transfer funds electronically
- honey badger — ratel.
- hopper barge — a barge for disposing of garbage, dredged material, etc., having hoppers in the bottom through which such cargo can be dumped.