12-letter words containing b, o, r, g
- reynoldsburg — a town in central Ohio.
- riding boots — long boots worn for horse-riding
- rock bunting — a seed-eating songbird, Emberiza cia
- rolling boil — heated liquid: bubbling
- rubber goods — contraceptives; condoms
- running bond — a brickwork bond having successive courses of overlapping stretchers.
- sailboarding — windsurfing.
- saprobiology — the branch of ecology that studies decaying organic matter or environments, especially saprophytes that derive nourishment in this way.
- scrapbooking — hobby: collaging
- semiglobular — possessing the form of half a globe; hemispheric.
- shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
- shoulder bag — a handbag with shoulder strap attached.
- shoulder-bag — A shoulder-bag is a bag that has a long strap so that it can be carried on a person's shoulder.
- sigma baryon — an unstable hyperon having positive, negative, or zero electric charge and strangeness −1. Symbol: Σ.
- signal board — a board for displaying electrically transmitted signals and indicating their source.
- sleeper goby — any gobioid fish of the family Eleotridae, of brackish or fresh tropical waters, resembling the gobies but lacking a ventral sucker
- slow-burning — (of combustible material) burning relatively slowly
- snobographer — a person who writes about snobs
- snowboarding — a board for gliding on snow, resembling a wide ski, to which both feet are secured and that one rides in an upright position.
- sorghum beer — beer made from sorghum or millet
- stabilograph — an instrument for measuring body sway.
- stockbroking — business of buying and selling stock
- storage tube — an electron tube in which information is stored as charges for a predetermined time
- store-bought — commercially made rather than homemade.
- strobe light — a device for studying the motion of a body, especially a body in rapid revolution or vibration, by making the motion appear to slow down or stop, as by periodically illuminating the body or viewing it through widely spaced openings in a revolving disk.
- strobe-light — a device for studying the motion of a body, especially a body in rapid revolution or vibration, by making the motion appear to slow down or stop, as by periodically illuminating the body or viewing it through widely spaced openings in a revolving disk.
- sub-mortgage — a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
- sub-religion — a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.
- submicrogram — containing or relating to a mass of less than one microgram
- surfboarding — a long, narrow board on which a person stands or lies prone in surfboarding.
- the big four — a small powerful group, as of banks, companies, etc, esp the four largest banks in Britain (Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, and NatWest)
- thirdborough — an under constable of a township
- thoroughbred — of pure or unmixed breed, stock, or lineage, as a horse or other animal; bred from the purest and best blood.
- through bass — figured bass.
- timbrologist — a stamp-collector
- toboggan run — a slope that you can slide down on a toboggan
- tribological — relating to tribology
- triple bogey — a score of three strokes over par on a hole.
- turbo engine — an engine containing a turbocharger
- turbo prolog — A strongly typed Prolog-like logic programming language. 1986. It has user-defined domains. Programs are arranged in sections: DOMAINS, CLAUSES, PREDICATES, DATABASE and GOAL. It is currently known as PDC Prolog and is distributed by Prolog Development Center, Atlanta +1 404 873 1366. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- turbo-charge — to equip (an internal-combustion engine) with a turbocharger.
- turbocharged — with additional power from turbine
- turbocharger — a supercharger that is driven by a turbine turned by exhaust gases from the engine.
- un-ignorable — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- unforeboding — a prediction; portent.
- unforgivable — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
- unforgivably — in an unforgivable manner
- ungovernable — impossible to govern, rule, or restrain; uncontrollable.
- unobligatory — required as a matter of obligation; mandatory: A reply is desirable but not obligatory.
- up for grabs — to seize suddenly or quickly; snatch; clutch: He grabbed me by the collar.