12-letter words containing b, o, g, i
- bowling ball — a round, heavy ball for bowling, usually made of hard rubber or plastic, with holes drilled into it for the bowler's thumb and two fingers.
- box magazine — a rectangular cartridge holder in a submachine or light machine gun.
- boxing glove — Boxing gloves are big padded gloves worn for boxing.
- boxing match — a competition between two boxers
- braggadocios — empty boasting; bragging.
- bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
- bridge house — a deckhouse including a bridge or bridges for navigation.
- bring action — to start a lawsuit
- bring around — If you bring someone around when they are unconscious, you make them become conscious again.
- bring to bay — to force into a position from which retreat is impossible
- broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
- bronchogenic — bronchial in origin
- brown bag it — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
- brown-nosing — If you accuse someone of brown-nosing, you are saying in a rather offensive way that they are agreeing with someone important in order to get their support.
- buccolingual — of or relating to the cheek and tongue.
- bulldog clip — A bulldog clip is a metal clip with a spring lever that opens and closes two flat pieces of metal. It is used for holding papers together.
- bur marigold — any plant of the genus Bidens that has yellow flowers and pointed fruits that cling to fur and clothing: family Asteraceae (composites)
- buttonholing — the hole, slit, or loop through which a button is passed and by which it is secured.
- buying group — an association of companies who use their combined purchasing power to achieve the best prices from suppliers
- buying order — an order to buy a certain security
- buying power — the amount of services or goods a company, person, group or currency is able to purchase
- buying-power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
- cabriole leg — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
- carbonadoing — Present participle of carbonado.
- cell biology — the study of the biology of cells
- charbroiling — Present participle of charbroil.
- clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
- coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
- cohabitating — cohabit.
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- conglobation — Formation into a ball, globe or rounded mass.
- contributing — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
- corbie gable — a gable having corbie-steps
- corn bunting — a heavily built European songbird, Emberiza calandra, with a streaked brown plumage: family Emberizidae (buntings)
- crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
- crossbarring — stripes, esp those of an animal
- cryoglobulin — an abnormal immunoglobulin, present in the blood in certain diseases, that precipitates below about 10°C, obstructing small blood vessels in the fingers and toes
- currycombing — Present participle of currycomb.
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- demobilizing — Present participle of demobilize.
- diabetogenic — causing or producing diabetes
- dialogue box — a window that may appear on a VDU display to prompt the user to enter further information or select an option
- disembodying — Present participle of disembody.
- diving board — a springboard.
- double-digit — of or denoting a percentage greater than ten.
- dumbfounding — Present participle of dumbfound.
- dumbing down — the act or process of making something less intellectually demanding; a pejorative use
- embourgeoise — to make bourgeois
- embroidering — Present participle of embroider.
- embryologist — An expert or specialist in embryology.