12-letter words containing e, a, g, r
- bridge a gap — to remedy a deficiency
- bridge chair — a lightweight folding chair, often part of a set of matching chairs and bridge table.
- bridge party — a gathering for the purpose of playing bridge
- bridge table — a square card table with folding legs.
- brooks range — a mountain range in N Alaska. Highest peak: Mount Isto, 2761 m (9058 ft)
- brown bagger — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
- buccaneering — If you describe someone as buccaneering, you mean that they enjoy being involved in risky or even dishonest activities, especially in order to make money.
- buffel grass — grass used for pasture in Africa, India, and Australia
- bugger about — If someone buggers about or buggers around, they waste time doing unnecessary things.
- bumper guard — either of two vertical crosspieces attached to a bumper of a motor vehicle to prevent it from locking bumpers with another vehicle.
- bumping race — (esp at Oxford and Cambridge) a race in which rowing eights start an equal distance one behind the other and each tries to bump the boat in front
- 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
- by and large — You use by and large to indicate that a statement is mostly but not completely true.
- cabbage rose — a rose, Rosa centifolia, with a round compact full-petalled head
- cabbage tree — a tree, Cordyline australis, of New Zealand having a tall branchless trunk and a palmlike top
- cabriole leg — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
- cage cricket — a form of cricket played in an enclosed space, in which six players compete as individuals
- calligraphed — Simple past tense and past participle of calligraph.
- calligrapher — A calligrapher is a person skilled in the art of calligraphy.
- campo grande — a city in SW Brazil, capital of Mato Grosso do Sul state on the São Paulo–Corumbá railway: market centre. Pop: 746 000 (2005 est)
- canyoneering — (US) Canyoning, a hybrid outdoor sport involving the traversal of river canyons.
- cape ortegal — a cape in NW Spain, projecting into the Bay of Biscay
- caper spurge — a spurge, Euphorbia lathyris, producing latex that is considered a possible source of crude oil and gasoline.
- caramelizing — Present participle of caramelize.
- carcinogenic — A substance that is carcinogenic is likely to cause cancer.
- cardiomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
- cardioplegia — deliberate arrest of the action of the heart, as by hypothermia or the injection of chemicals, to enable complex heart surgery to be carried out
- care package — Also, CARE package. a package containing food, clothing, or other items sent as necessities to the needy.
- cargo pocket — a large patch pocket, usually pleated at the sides and often having a flap.
- carpentering — a person who builds or repairs wooden structures, as houses, scaffolds, or shelving.
- carpet grass — either of two grasses, Axonopus affinis or A. compressus, native to tropical and subtropical America.
- carpetbagged — Simple past tense and past participle of carpetbag.
- carpetbagger — If you call someone a carpetbagger, you disapprove of them because they are trying to become a politician in an area which is not their home, simply because they think they are more likely to succeed there.
- carpetmonger — a person who frequently visits women's boudoirs
- carriage dog — Dalmatian (sense 4)
- carriageable — (of a road, etc) able to be travelled in a carriage
- carriageways — Plural form of carriageway.
- carry weight — to be important, influential, etc.
- cartographer — A cartographer is a person whose job is drawing maps.
- cartwheeling — Present participle of cartwheel.
- case grammar — a system of grammatical description based on the functional relations that noun groups have to the main verb of a sentence
- caster angle — the forward or backward tilt of the steering axis in a vehicle, when considered from the side
- caster sugar — Caster sugar is white sugar that has been ground into fine grains. It is used in cooking.
- categorially — in a manner relating to or involving categories
- categoricity — The quality of being categorical.
- categorising — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- categorizing — Present participle of categorize.
- caterwauling — the shrieking and yowling made by a cat, for example when it is on heat or fighting