13-letter words containing b, i, g, p
- building plot — a piece of land on which a house can be built
- bypass engine — a gas turbine in which a part of the compressor delivery bypasses the combustion zone, flowing directly into or around the main exhaust gas flow to provide additional thrust
- cabbage aphid — a small, blue aphid, Brevicoryne brassicae, that feeds on cabbage and related plants.
- carpetbagging — relating to carpetbaggers or to the practice of carpetbaggers
- 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.
- cybershopping — Shopping by means of computers or the Internet.
- ge-pano-carib — a linguistic phylum comprising a large number of aboriginal languages with scattered distribution in South America east of the Andes.
- gerontophobia — a fear of old people.
- graphitizable — (chemistry, of carbon) Able to be converted to graphite.
- gynaecophobia — (psychology) An irrational fear of women.
- hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hypnobirthing — the use of hypnotic techniques during labour by an expectant mother to reduce the pain and emotional stress of delivery
- palaeobiology — the study of fossil plants and animals
- panel-beating — the act of beating out the bodywork of motor vehicles
- parking brake — emergency brake.
- parking orbit — a temporary orbit in which a spacecraft awaits the next phase of its mission.
- path-breaking — very original; ground-breaking
- perching bird — any member of the avian order Passeriformes.
- 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
- photo-biology — the study of the effects of light on biological systems.
- pigeon breast — chicken breast.
- piggyback car — a flatcar designed to accommodate containers or highway truck trailers.
- pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
- plain bearing — any of various bearings, not containing rolling elements, that present to the shaft or axle they support broad areas of corresponding form, usually segments of a cylinder.
- polling booth — a booth in which voters cast their votes.
- postbourgeois — (in Marxist thought) belonging to a period of society after the decline of the bourgeoisie
- potato blight — fungal disease affecting potatoes
- pouring-basin — (in a vacuum induction furnace) a trough through which molten metal flows under vacuum to a mold chamber.
- prebiological — of or relating to chemicals or environmental conditions existing before the development of the first living things.
- psychobiology — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
- 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.
- pudding basin — A pudding basin is a deep round bowl that is used in the kitchen, especially for mixing or for cooking puddings.
- space biology — exobiology.
- speaking tube — a tube for conveying the voice over a somewhat limited distance, as from one part of a building or ship to another.
- spelling book — an elementary textbook or manual to teach spelling
- spelling-book — a person who spells words.
- spine-bashing — to rest; loaf.
- spring beauty — any American spring plant belonging to the genus Claytonia, of the purslane family, especially C. virginica, having an elongated cluster of white flowers tinged with pink.
- spring binder — a loose-leaf binder in which a single, long, clamplike spring, forming the spine, holds the leaves.
- springboarded — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
- supreme being — God.
- table-rapping — the sounds of knocking or tapping made without any apparent physical agency while a group of people sit round a table, and attributed by spiritualists to the spirit of a dead person using this as a means of communication with the living
- the big apple — New York City
- the-big-apple — New York City.
- tramping club — an organization of people who walk for recreation, esp in the bush
- tribune group — (in Britain) a group made up of left-wing Labour Members of Parliament: founded 1966
- upgradability — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
- warping board — a rectangular board containing evenly spaced pegs at each end on which the warp is wound in preparation for weaving.