13-letter words containing c, g, b, r
- dry scrubbing — Dry scrubbing is the removal of solid particles from a gas onto a liquid surface, but with a solid discharge.
- embracingness — the quality of something that embraces
- embryogenetic — embryogenic
- embryological — Of or pertaining to embryology.
- encourageable — Able to be encouraged; suggestible.
- 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.
- flying boxcar — a large airplane designed to carry cargo.
- free climbing — climbing without using pitons, étriers, etc, as direct aids to ascent, but using ropes, belays, etc, at discretion for security
- 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.
- gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
- garbage chute — sloped channel for rubbish disposal
- garbage truck — lorry that collects refuse
- garcia robles — Alfonso [al-fon-soh,, -zoh;; Spanish ahl-fawn-saw] /ælˈfɒn soʊ,, -zoʊ;; Spanish ɑlˈfɔn sɔ/ (Show IPA), 1911–91, Mexican diplomat: Nobel Prize 1982.
- ge-pano-carib — a linguistic phylum comprising a large number of aboriginal languages with scattered distribution in South America east of the Andes.
- glacier table — a stone slab supported over the surface of a mountain glacier by a column or columns of ice.
- global search — a word-processing operation in which a complete computer file or set of files is searched for every occurrence of a particular word or other sequence of characters
- 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).
- herb of grace — rue2 .
- herb-of-grace — rue2 .
- hertogenbosch — 's Hertogenbosch.
- incorrigibles — Plural form of incorrigible.
- kerb-crawling — Kerb-crawling is the activity of driving slowly along the side of a road in order to find and hire a prostitute.
- kirkcudbright — a historic county in SW Scotland.
- laughter club — a group of people who meet regularly to take part in communal laughing for therapeutic effect
- letzeburgesch — a Germanic dialect that is the native language of most of the people of Luxembourg.
- lingual brace — a specialized dental brace that fits behind the teeth so that it is not visible when the wearer speaks or smiles.
- macroglobulin — A plasma globulin of high molecular weight.
- magma chamber — a reservoir of magma in the earth's crust where the magma may reside temporarily on its way from the upper mantle to the earth's surface
- marching band — musical group that parades
- mariage blanc — unconsummated marriage
- matchboarding — a construction of matchboards.
- microbarogram — a record made by a microbarograph.
- microbiologic — Synonym of microbiological.
- microblogging — a blog that is smaller than a traditional blog and contains very short entries.
- overbalancing — Present participle of overbalance.
- perching bird — any member of the avian order Passeriformes.
- phlebographic — relating to phlebography or the X-ray imaging of a vein that has been injected with a dye that is visible on the image taken
- piggyback car — a flatcar designed to accommodate containers or highway truck trailers.
- prebiological — of or relating to chemicals or environmental conditions existing before the development of the first living things.
- 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.
- rambling club — a club for people who enjoy taking walks in the country
- right bracket — (character) "]". ASCII character 93. Common names: right square bracket; ITU-T: closing bracket; unbracket. Rare: unsquare; INTERCAL: U turn back. Paired with left bracket.
- road-blocking — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
- robot dancing — a dance of the 1980s characterized by jerky mechanical movements
- rock climbing — the sport of climbing sheer rocky surfaces on the sides of mountains, often with the aid of special equipment.
- rubbernecking — staring or gaping inquisitively, esp in a naive or foolish manner
- scrambled egg — eggs stirred while cooking
- sterling bloc — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
- stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
- subcategorize — to split into subcategories