12-letter words containing b, u, r, g
- forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
- gainsborough — Thomas, 1727–88, English painter.
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- garbage dump — rubbish tip, place where refuse is disposed of
- ghostbusters — Plural form of ghostbuster.
- glabrousness — The quality of being glabrous.
- gluten bread — bread made from gluten flour.
- glyndebourne — an estate in SE England, in East Sussex: site of a famous annual festival of opera founded in 1934 by John Christie
- 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.
- ground robin — towhee.
- groundbursts — Plural form of groundburst.
- 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.
- hillsborough — a town in W California.
- hubertusburg — a castle in E Germany, E of Leipzig: treaty ending the Seven Years' War signed here 1763.
- hugh loebner — (person) Dr. Hugh Gene Loebner, the instigator of the Loebner Prize in artificial intelligence. E-mail address: Hugh Loebner <[email protected]>.
- hummingbirds — Plural form of hummingbird.
- ingleborough — a mountain in N England, in North Yorkshire: potholes. Height: 723 m (2373 ft)
- inner-tubing — tubing (def 4).
- interborough — between boroughs.
- jitterbugged — Simple past tense and past participle of jitterbug.
- 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.
- loughborough — a town in central England, in N Leicestershire: university (1966). Pop: 55 258 (2001)
- lugubriosity — mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.
- lugubriously — In a lugubrious manner.
- luxembourger — a native or inhabitant of Luxembourg.
- magic number — the atomic number or neutron number of an exceptionally stable nuclide.
- masturbating — Present participle of masturbate.
- moneygrubber — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
- mooring buoy — a buoy to which ships or boats can be moored.
- munro-bagger — a person who climbs as many Munros as possible
- murrumbidgee — a river in SE Australia, flowing W through New South Wales to the Murray River. 1050 miles (1690 km) long.
- neighbouring — (British, Canada) Situated or living nearby or adjacent to.
- neurobiology — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
- nightclubber — One who visits a nightclub.
- non-arguable — susceptible to debate, challenge, or doubt; questionable: Whether this is the best plan of action or not is arguable.
- northborough — a town in central Massachusetts.
- 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.
- outnumbering — Present participle of outnumber.
- overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
- peterborough — a city in Cambridgeshire, in central England.