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13-letter words containing b, h, a, g

  • break through — If you break through a barrier, you succeed in forcing your way through it.
  • breakthroughs — a military movement or advance all the way through and beyond an enemy's front-line defense.
  • breathe again — to feel relief
  • breechloading — loaded at the breech.
  • brigham young — Andrew (Jackson, Jr.) born 1932, U.S. clergyman, civil-rights leader, politician, and diplomat: mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, 1981–89.
  • bronchography — radiography of the bronchial tubes after the introduction of a radiopaque medium into the bronchi
  • burgess shale — a bed of Cambrian sedimentary rock in the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia containing many unique invertebrate fossils
  • cabbage aphid — a small, blue aphid, Brevicoryne brassicae, that feeds on cabbage and related plants.
  • cabbage white — any large white butterfly of the genus Pieris, esp the Eurasian species P. brassicae, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of cabbages and related vegetables: family Pieridae
  • challengeable — a call or summons to engage in any contest, as of skill, strength, etc.
  • chamber organ — a small compact organ used esp for the authentic performance of preclassical music
  • changeability — liable to change or to be changed; variable.
  • chargeability — that may or should be charged: chargeable duty.
  • child-bearing — the act or process of carrying and giving birth to a child
  • clearing bath — any solution for removing material from the surface of a photographic image, as silver halide, metallic silver, or a dye or stain.
  • coachbuilding — the manufacture of bodies for cars, buses, and coaches
  • copyrightable — the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc.: works granted such right by law on or after January 1, 1978, are protected for the lifetime of the author or creator and for a period of 70 years after his or her death.
  • curb exchange — American Stock Exchange.
  • daughterboard — a small circuit board that can be attached to the motherboard of a computer
  • demothballing — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.
  • dischargeable — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
  • draughtboards — Plural form of draughtboard.
  • draughtsboard — The board on which draughts is played, resembling a chessboard but (depending on the game variation) often having a side length of ten squares rather than eight.
  • eating habits — the way a person or group eats, considered in terms of what types of food are eaten, in what quantities, and when
  • erin go bragh — Ireland forever
  • fingerbreadth — the breadth of a finger: approximately 3/4 inch (2 cm).
  • fishing banks — a place where fish are abundant, as off Newfoundland
  • fulbright act — an act of Congress (1946) by which funds derived chiefly from the sale of U.S. surplus property abroad are made available to U.S. citizens for study, research, and teaching in foreign countries as well as to foreigners to engage in similar activities in the U.S.
  • gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
  • garbage chute — sloped channel for rubbish disposal
  • gerontophobia — a fear of old people.
  • ghettoblaster — Alternative form of ghetto blaster.
  • give sb heart — If something gives you heart, it makes you feel more confident or happy about something.
  • global search — a word-processing operation in which a complete computer file or set of files is searched for every occurrence of a particular word or other sequence of characters
  • globe theatre — a theater on the south bank of the Thames in London, 1599–1613: many of Shakespeare's plays were first produced here.
  • go to the bad — to become wicked, shiftless, etc.; degenerate
  • good behavior — satisfactory, proper, or polite conduct.
  • graphitizable — (chemistry, of carbon) Able to be converted to graphite.
  • gynaecophobia — (psychology) An irrational fear of women.
  • habit-forming — tending to cause or encourage addiction, especially through physiological dependence: habit-forming drugs.
  • harlequin bug — a black stink bug, Murgantia histrionica, having red and yellow markings, that feeds on cabbages and other cruciferous plants.
  • heartbreaking — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
  • heli-boarding — the sport of snowboarding on mountains or glaciers accessible only by helicopter or skiplane
  • herb of grace — rue2 .
  • herb-of-grace — rue2 .
  • hot-water bag — a bag, usually of rubber, for holding hot water to apply warmth to some part of the body, as the feet.
  • housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
  • laughableness — The state or quality of being laughable; ludicrousness.
  • laughter club — a group of people who meet regularly to take part in communal laughing for therapeutic effect
  • magma chamber — a reservoir of magma in the earth's crust where the magma may reside temporarily on its way from the upper mantle to the earth's surface
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