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13-letter words containing d, g

  • blood glucose — Blood glucose is glucose (= a type of sugar) in the bloodstream.
  • blood pudding — Blood pudding is another word for black pudding.
  • blood sausage — a kind of black sausage made from minced pork fat, pig's blood, and other ingredients
  • blood-letting — Blood-letting is violence or killing between groups of people, especially between rival armies.
  • bloodcurdling — terrifying; horrifying
  • blow moulding — a process for moulding single-piece plastic objects in which a thermoplastic is extruded into a split mould and blown against its sides
  • board meeting — a meeting of the board of a company or other organization
  • boarding card — A boarding card is a card which a passenger must have when boarding a plane or a boat.
  • boarding fees — fees paid for boarding at a school
  • boarding pass — A boarding pass is a card that a passenger must have when boarding a plane or a boat.
  • boardinghouse — a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests
  • body building — the act or practice of exercising, lifting weights, etc., so as to develop the muscles of the body.
  • body language — Your body language is the way in which you show your feelings or thoughts to other people by means of the position or movements of your body, rather than with words.
  • body piercing — the practice of making holes in the navel , nipples, etc so that jewellery can be worn in them
  • body shopping — the purchasing of manpower from another country, usually one where wages are cheap
  • body stocking — A body stocking is a piece of clothing that covers the whole of someone's body and fits tightly. Body stockings are often worn by dancers.
  • boomerang kid — a young adult who, after having lived on his or her own for a time, returns to live in the parental home, usually due to financial problems caused by unemployment or the high cost of living independently
  • boris godunov — Boris Fedorovich [bawr-is fi-dawr-uh-vich,, bohr-,, bor-;; Russian buh-ryees fyaw-duh-ruh-vyich] /ˈbɔr ɪs fɪˈdɔr ə vɪtʃ,, ˈboʊr-,, ˈbɒr-;; Russian bʌˈryis ˈfyɔ də rə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1552–1605, regent of Russia 1584–98 and czar 1598–1605.
  • boroglyceride — any compound containing boric acid and glycerol, used chiefly as an antiseptic.
  • boudoir grand — a domestic grand piano between 5 and 6 feet in length
  • bourdon gauge — a type of aneroid pressure gauge consisting of a flattened curved tube attached to a pointer that moves around a dial. As the pressure in the tube increases the tube tends to straighten and the pointer indicates the applied pressure
  • boys' brigade — (in Britain) an organization for boys, founded in 1883, with the aim of promoting discipline and self-respect
  • brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
  • braggadocious — boastful
  • brain-damaged — Someone who is brain-damaged has suffered brain damage.
  • brand manager — the person responsible for the marketing of a particular brand
  • branded goods — goods that are identifiable as being the product of a particular manufacturer or marketing company
  • branding iron — a long-handled metal rod with a stamp at one end, used for branding livestock, especially cattle, with a registered or recognized symbol or character to indicate ownership.
  • branding-iron — an iron heated and used for branding animals, etc
  • brassfounding — the practice of making things from brass
  • bread pudding — a rich cake made with bread soaked in milk, eggs, dried fruit and spices and baked, usually eaten cold
  • bread-winning — a person who earns a livelihood, especially one who also supports dependents.
  • break dancing — a style of dance engaged in by youths, involving acrobatic movements, spinning about on the head or shoulders, etc.
  • break feeding — the feeding of animals on paddocks where feeding space is controlled by the frequent movement of an electric fence
  • breechloading — loaded at the breech.
  • breeding pair — a male and female animal that produce offspring together
  • bridge player — a person who plays the game of bridge
  • bridging loan — A bridging loan is money that a bank lends you for a short time, for example so that you can buy a new house before you have sold the one you already own.
  • bridging shot — a shot inserted in a film to indicate the passage of time between two scenes, as of a series of newspaper headlines or calendar pages being torn off.
  • bring forward — If you bring forward a meeting or event, you arrange for it to take place at an earlier date or time than had been planned.
  • bring to mind — recall
  • brownie guide — a member of the Brownie Guides, one of the junior branches (aged 7–10 years) in The Guide Association
  • buck and wing — a boisterous tap dance, derived from Black and Irish clog dances
  • budget period — the time which a budget covers
  • budget speech — the speech in which the Chancellor presents his budget to parliament
  • build bridges — to promote reconciliation or cooperation between hostile groups or people
  • building land — land on which construction can take place
  • building line — the boundary line along a street beyond which buildings must not project
  • building plot — a piece of land on which a house can be built
  • building site — A building site is an area of land on which a building or a group of buildings is in the process of being built or altered.
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