13-letter words containing b, u, d, g
- 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.
- dry scrubbing — Dry scrubbing is the removal of solid particles from a gas onto a liquid surface, but with a solid discharge.
- duck-egg blue — a pale greenish-blue colour
- 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.
- 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]>.
- frederiksburg — borough on Zealand island, Denmark: suburb of Copenhagen: pop. 88,000
- fruiting body — an organ that produces spores; fructification.
- garden suburb — a suburb of a large established town or city, planned along the lines of a garden city
- 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
- great bustard — a large bustard, Otis tarda, of southern and central Europe and western and central Asia, having a wingspread of about 8 feet (2.4 meters).
- 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.
- 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
- judgment book — the book from which all persons will be judged at the Last Judgment, containing a full record of their acts.
- judgment debt — Law. a debt established or confirmed by decree of a court of law.
- kirkcudbright — a historic county in SW Scotland.
- loft building — a building of several floors with large areas of unobstructed space, originally rented out for light industrial purposes and now frequently converted to residential occupancy.
- middleborough — a town in SE Massachusetts.
- middlesbrough — a seaport in NE England, on the Tees estuary.
- midnight blue — Something that is midnight blue is a very dark blue colour, almost black.
- 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
- mourning band — a piece of black material, esp an armband, worn to indicate that the wearer is in mourning
- multibuilding — involving multiple buildings
- neighbourhood — Standard spelling of neighborhood.
- non-budgetary — an estimate, often itemized, of expected income and expense for a given period in the future.
- old bulgarian — the Bulgarian language of the Middle Ages.
- organ-builder — a maker of organs
- overburdening — Present participle of overburden.
- pudding basin — A pudding basin is a deep round bowl that is used in the kitchen, especially for mixing or for cooking puddings.
- rubber bridge — a form of contract bridge in which deals are not replayed and in which scores are settled after each rubber.
- rubberbanding — (in online video games) the backward popping of characters in motion to their recently occupied spaces that results from high latency in the network connection.
- rube goldberg — having a fantastically complicated, improvised appearance: a Rube Goldberg arrangement of flasks and test tubes.
- run sb ragged — If someone runs you ragged, they make you do so much that you become exhausted.
- running board — a small ledge, step, or footboard, formerly beneath the doors of an automobile, to assist passengers entering or leaving the car.
- self-doubting — lacking in confidence
- signed number — Mathematics. a number preceded by a plus sign (+) to indicate a positive quantity or by a minus sign (−) to indicate a negative quantity.
- subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
- turbo-charged — A turbo-charged engine or vehicle is fitted with a turbo.
- underbudgeted — furnished with an insufficient budget; not having sufficient funds made available.
- underclubbing — the action of hitting with a club resulting in insufficient distance
- undiagnosable — unable to be diagnosed
- undisguisable — to change the appearance or guise of so as to conceal identity or mislead, as by means of deceptive garb: The king was disguised as a peasant.
- unneighboured — having no neighbour or neighbours
- upgradability — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
- wedgwood blue — a blue-gray color, especially one characteristic of Wedgwood ceramic ware.