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13-letter words containing b, o, u, g

  • buffalo wings — spicy fried segments of chicken wings, usually served with celery sticks and a sauce of blue cheese
  • building plot — a piece of land on which a house can be built
  • burglar-proof — designed to be secure and to frustrate any attempted burglary
  • burglariously — in the manner of a burglar or buglary
  • burial ground — A burial ground is a place where bodies are buried, especially an ancient place.
  • burrowing owl — a ground owl (Athene cunicularia) of the prairie regions of North and South America having long legs and a small head: it makes its nest in abandoned burrows
  • butyryl group — the univalent group C 4 H 7 O–.
  • club together — If people club together to do something, they all give money towards the cost of it.
  • coachbuilding — the manufacture of bodies for cars, buses, and coaches
  • coagulability — The ability to coagulate, of being coagulable.
  • college-bound — intending to go to college
  • concertgebouw — a concert hall in Amsterdam, inaugurated in 1888: the Concertgebouw Orchestra established in 1888, has been independent of the hall since World War II
  • confabulating — Present participle of confabulate.
  • congratulable — worthy of congratulation
  • coolidge tube — a cathode ray tube, used for x-ray production, in which a beam of thermoelectrons is produced by heating a wire cathode.
  • counterboring — a tool for enlarging a drilled hole for a portion of its length, as to permit sinking a screw head.
  • cutting board — A cutting board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
  • daughterboard — a small circuit board that can be attached to the motherboard of a computer
  • disambiguator — Anything that serves to disambiguate.
  • double dagger — a mark (‡) used for references, as footnotes.
  • double garage — a garage that can hold two vehicles
  • double magnum — Jeroboam (def 2).
  • double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
  • double-figure — double-digit.
  • double-glazed — of, having, or provided with double glazing: double-glazed windows and doors.
  • double-tongue — to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and k alternately, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.
  • 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.
  • durable goods — Durable goods or durables are goods such as televisions or cars which are expected to last a long time, and are bought infrequently.
  • encourageable — Able to be encouraged; suggestible.
  • fooling about — the act of speaking or acting in a playful, teasing, or jesting manner
  • fruiting body — an organ that produces spores; fructification.
  • george w bushBarbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
  • girl's blouse — used to refer to a man who is not behaving in a very strong or masculine way
  • globuliferous — containing or producing globules.
  • gobar numeral — any of a set of ancient numerals derived from Hindu numerals
  • golden number — a number between 1 and 19, used to indicate the position of any year in the Metonic cycle, calculated as the remainder when 1 is added to the given year and the sum is divided by 19. If the remainder is zero the number is 19
  • ground beetle — any of numerous nocturnal, terrestrial beetles of the family Carabidae that feed chiefly on other insects.
  • groundbreaker — a person who is an originator, innovator, or pioneer in a particular activity.
  • gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
  • gulf of gabès — an inlet of the Mediterranean on the E coast of Tunisia
  • guzman blanco — Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1829–99, Venezuelan political leader: president 1870–88.
  • honour bright — an exclamation pledging honour
  • housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
  • housebuilding — The trade or activity of building houses.
  • hybrid vigour — the increased size, strength, etc, of a hybrid as compared to either of its parents
  • immunobiology — the study of the immune response and the biological aspects of immunity to disease.
  • judgment book — the book from which all persons will be judged at the Last Judgment, containing a full record of their acts.
  • king's bounty — a grant, given in the royal name, to a mother of triplets.
  • labour-saving — A labour-saving device or idea makes it possible for you to do something with less effort than usual.
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