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

  • marching band — musical group that parades
  • matchboarding — a construction of matchboards.
  • megaherbivore — a large herbivore, such as an elephant, weighing more than 1000kg
  • nonce-bashing — violent attacks against rapists, child molesters, or sexual offenders, esp inside a prison
  • novo hamburgo — a city in Rio Grande do Sul state, S Brazil.
  • overbreathing — hyperventilation
  • overnight bag — a travel bag large enough to hold personal articles and clothing for an overnight trip.
  • path-breaking — very original; ground-breaking
  • phlebographic — relating to phlebography or the X-ray imaging of a vein that has been injected with a dye that is visible on the image taken
  • polythene bag — a bag made of polythene, esp one used to store or protect food or household articles
  • potato blight — fungal disease affecting potatoes
  • public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
  • queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
  • rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
  • right bracket — (character)   "]". ASCII character 93. Common names: right square bracket; ITU-T: closing bracket; unbracket. Rare: unsquare; INTERCAL: U turn back. Paired with left bracket.
  • right-brained — having the right brain dominant, therefore being more adept at spatial and nonverbal concepts and being more creative and emotional than logical and analytical.
  • rough as bags — uncouth
  • shadow boxing — to make the motions of attack and defense, as in boxing, as a training or conditioning procedure.
  • shaving brush — a short, cylindrical brush with long, soft, bristles, used in lathering the face before shaving.
  • shingle beach — a beach made of a mass of small pieces of rough stone
  • shot-blasting — the cleaning of metal, etc, by a stream of shot
  • siberian high — the prevailing high pressure system over Asia in winter.
  • slaughterable — (of an animal) ready for slaughter
  • spine-bashing — to rest; loaf.
  • stamen blight — a disease of blackberries, characterized by a gray, powdery mass of spores covering the anthers, caused by a fungus, Hapalosphaeria deformans.
  • surge chamber — a chamber for absorbing surge from a liquid or gas.
  • swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
  • swimming bath — swimming pool.
  • symbolography — the writing of symbolic characters or tracing of symbolic figures
  • the big apple — New York City
  • the gas board — any company supplying gas as a source of domestic and industrial heat
  • the-big-apple — New York City.
  • thorough bass — figured bass.
  • thoroughbrace — either of two strong leather straps upon which the body of certain types of carriage is supported
  • thread blight — a fungal disease of woody plants, characterized by thick, threadlike strands of mycelium on the undersides of the leaves and branches.
  • tubing hanger — A tubing hanger is a device which is attached to the top tubing joint and supports the tubing.
  • turbo-charged — A turbo-charged engine or vehicle is fitted with a turbo.
  • turbocharging — the process or action of supplying an internal combustion engine or a motor vehicle with a turbocharger
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