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12-letter words containing b, u, r, a, g

  • burning ghat — a platform at the top of a riverside ghat where Hindus cremate their dead.
  • burnt orange — of a dark orange colour, sometimes due to calcination of orange pigment
  • bush leaguer — Also called busher. Baseball. a player in a minor league. an incompetent player, as one who behaves or plays as if he or she belonged in a minor league.
  • bush-leaguer — (in baseball) someone who plays in a minor league
  • chambersburg — a city in central Pennsylvania.
  • charlesbourg — city in S Quebec, Canada: pop. 71,000
  • class b drug — (in Britain) any of the second most dangerous group of controlled drugs, including amphetamine
  • coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
  • 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.
  • double sugar — disaccharide.
  • doubleganger — doppelgänger.
  • draught beer — beer which is stored in bulk, esp in a cask, as opposed to being bottled
  • draughtboard — checkerboard (def 1).
  • figurability — the quality of being figurable
  • figured bass — a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them indicating the chords to be played.
  • gainsborough — Thomas, 1727–88, English painter.
  • gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
  • garbage dump — rubbish tip, place where refuse is disposed of
  • glabrousness — The quality of being glabrous.
  • gluten bread — bread made from gluten flour.
  • grand kabuki — kabuki (def 2).
  • granuloblast — an immature granulocyte.
  • ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
  • gubernacular — relating to a gubernaculum
  • gubernaculum — a part or organ that directs the movement or course of another part.
  • gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
  • harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
  • heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
  • johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
  • laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
  • lark bunting — a finch, Calamospiza melanocorys, of the western U.S., the male of which is black with a large, white patch on each wing.
  • lawrenceburg — a town in S Tennessee.
  • magic number — the atomic number or neutron number of an exceptionally stable nuclide.
  • masturbating — Present participle of masturbate.
  • munro-bagger — a person who climbs as many Munros as possible
  • non-arguable — susceptible to debate, challenge, or doubt; questionable: Whether this is the best plan of action or not is arguable.
  • numbers game — Also called numbers, numbers game, numbers racket. an illegal daily lottery in which money is wagered on the appearance of certain numbers in some statistical listing or tabulation published in a daily newspaper, racing form, etc.
  • oberammergau — a village in S Germany, SW of Munich: famous for the passion play performed there every ten years.
  • pyjama rugby — an uncomplimentary term for the Super 12 Rugby Union competition that involves teams from South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, and which is noted for its free-flowing nature and lack of attritional play between the forwards
  • rag business — the garment, clothing, or fashion industry.
  • rauschenberg — Robert, 1925–2008, U.S. artist.
  • regular verb — verb that follows standard conjugation
  • rugby league — a form of rugby football played between teams of 13 players
  • rugby player — a person who plays rugby
  • rugby tackle — A rugby tackle is a way of making someone fall over by throwing your arms around their legs or hips.
  • running back — an offensive back, as a halfback or fullback, whose principal role is advancing the ball by running with it on plays from scrimmage.
  • semiglobular — possessing the form of half a globe; hemispheric.
  • 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.
  • stauffenberg — Claus (klaʊs), Graf von. 1907–44, German army officer, who tried to assassinate Hitler (1944). He and his fellow conspirators were executed
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