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13-letter words containing b, r, i, g, u

  • double-figure — double-digit.
  • drainage tube — a tube that drains fluid from an incision or body cavity during surgery
  • dry scrubbing — Dry scrubbing is the removal of solid particles from a gas onto a liquid surface, but with a solid discharge.
  • edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • equilibrating — Present participle of equilibrate.
  • excalibur bug — (humour, programming)   The legendary bug that, despite repeated valliant attempts, none but the true king of all programmers can fix. Named after the sword in the stone in the legend of King Arthur.
  • filibustering — Present participle of filibuster.
  • finger buffet — a buffet meal at which food that may be picked up with the fingers (finger food), such as canapés or vol-au-vents, is served
  • flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
  • frederiksburg — borough on Zealand island, Denmark: suburb of Copenhagen: pop. 88,000
  • fruiting body — an organ that produces spores; fructification.
  • fulbright act — an act of Congress (1946) by which funds derived chiefly from the sale of U.S. surplus property abroad are made available to U.S. citizens for study, research, and teaching in foreign countries as well as to foreigners to engage in similar activities in the U.S.
  • gabriel fauré — Gabriel Urbain [ga-bree-el oor-ban] /ga briˈɛl urˈbɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1845–1924, French composer.
  • geissler tube — a sealed glass tube with platinum connections at the ends, containing rarefied gas made luminous by an electrical discharge.
  • genre-busting — not conforming to established patterns, styles, etc
  • 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.
  • gnu c library — (library)   (glibc) The run-time library for the GNU C compiler, gcc, and others. glibc is the source code for libc.a. It is maintained separately from the compilers and is a superset of ANSI C and POSIX.1 and a large subset of POSIX.2. Mailing list: <[email protected]> (bugs).
  • gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
  • harlequin bug — a black stink bug, Murgantia histrionica, having red and yellow markings, that feeds on cabbages and other cruciferous plants.
  • honour bright — an exclamation pledging honour
  • housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
  • hybrid vigour — the increased size, strength, etc, of a hybrid as compared to either of its parents
  • jitterbugging — Present participle of jitterbug.
  • kirkcudbright — a historic county in SW Scotland.
  • labour-saving — A labour-saving device or idea makes it possible for you to do something with less effort than usual.
  • lingual brace — a specialized dental brace that fits behind the teeth so that it is not visible when the wearer speaks or smiles.
  • luxembourgian — of or relating to Luxembourg, its people, or their language.
  • luxembourgish — Also, Luxembourgish [luhk-suh m-bur-gish] /ˈlʌk səmˌbɜr gɪʃ/ (Show IPA). Letzeburgesch.
  • macroglobulin — A plasma globulin of high molecular weight.
  • middleborough — a town in SE Massachusetts.
  • middlesbrough — a seaport in NE England, on the Tees estuary.
  • midriff bulge — a roll of fat around your midriff
  • millau bridge — a road bridge, the highest in the world, crossing the River Tarn in the Massif Central in SW France; designed by Sir Norman Foster and opened in 2004
  • moneygrubbing — Alternative spelling of money-grubbing.
  • mount gambier — a city in S Australia.
  • mourning band — a piece of black material, esp an armband, worn to indicate that the wearer is in mourning
  • neighbourhood — Standard spelling of neighborhood.
  • objurgatively — In an objurgative or reproving manner.
  • old bulgarian — the Bulgarian language of the Middle Ages.
  • organ-builder — a maker of organs
  • overburdening — Present participle of overburden.
  • postbourgeois — (in Marxist thought) belonging to a period of society after the decline of the bourgeoisie
  • pouring-basin — (in a vacuum induction furnace) a trough through which molten metal flows under vacuum to a mold chamber.
  • 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
  • rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
  • rambling club — a club for people who enjoy taking walks in the country
  • re-submitting — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
  • rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
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