11-letter words containing e, c, g
- awning deck — a weather deck supported on very light scantlings.
- back garden — a garden at the rear of a house
- back-logged — a reserve or accumulation, as of stock, work, or business: a backlog of business orders.
- backlighted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlight.
- baconburger — a hamburger topped with strips of cooked bacon.
- baggage car — A baggage car is a railway carriage, often without windows, which is used to carry luggage, goods, or mail.
- balance lug — a lugsail having a portion of its area forward of the mast and having a long foot, often with a boom.
- barebacking — sexual intercourse performed without the use of a condom
- bbc english — Received Pronunciation.
- bcg vaccine — a vaccine made from weakened strains of tubercle bacilli, used to produce immunity against tuberculosis.
- beach buggy — a low car, often open and with balloon tyres, for driving on sand
- beach grass — any of a genus (Ammophila) of deeply rooted, tough, perennial grasses that grow on sandy beaches and are often planted to combat beach erosion
- beach ridge — a ridge just inland from a beach, consisting of sand and gravel built up by storm waves
- bearing cap — A bearing cap is a rigid, semi-circular part that fits around one half of a bearing and secures it.
- bedclothing — bedclothes; bedding.
- beech grove — a grove of beech trees
- bellyaching — constant complaining
- benue-congo — a branch of the Niger-Congo family of African languages, consisting of the Bantu languages together with certain other languages of W Africa
- bergschrund — a crevasse at the head of a glacier
- bibliopegic — relating to bookbinding as a fine art
- big bickies — a large sum of money
- big picture — a broad, overall view or perspective of an issue or problem.
- big science — scientific research that requires a large investment of capital
- big society — the devolution of political power and social responsibility to local communities as opposed to centralized political power and state control
- bigeye scad — a carangid fish, Selar crumenophthalmus, of tropical seas and Atlantic coastal waters of the U.S., having prominent eyes and commonly used as bait.
- bing cherry — a dark-red variety of sweet cherry
- binge-watch — to watch a large number of television programmes (especially all the shows from one series) in succession
- biocenology — the branch of biology dealing with the study of biological communities and the interactions among their members.
- biogenetics — the branch of biology concerned with altering the genomes of living organisms
- blacktongue — canine pellagra.
- bluejacking — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to gain access to another, esp in order to send anonymous text messages
- bounce game — (esp in soccer) a non-competitive game played as part of training
- bridge deck — a deck on top of a bridge house; flying bridge.
- bungee cord — a type of stretchy rope consisting of elastic strands often in a fabric casing. Bungee cords may be used in parachuting, bungee jumping or to secure loads. Ones used for securing loads often have hooks on either end.
- cabbage bug — harlequin bug
- cabbagehead — cabbage1 (def 2).
- cabbagetown — a former slum area of Toronto, now known for its Victorian architecture and thriving arts community
- cabbageworm — any caterpillar that feeds on cabbages, esp that of the cabbage white
- cacogenesis — (medicine) A morbid, monstrous, or pathological growth or product; an abnormality in structure; a monstrosity.
- cakewalking — Present participle of cakewalk.
- calcigerous — containing lime or other salts
- calendaring — a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar.
- calendering — a machine in which cloth, paper, or the like, is smoothed, glazed, etc., by pressing between rotating cylinders.
- calf-length — Calf-length skirts, dresses, and coats come to halfway between your knees and ankles.
- calligramme — words arranged to form a picture
- calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
- camel grass — a grass, Cymbopogon schoenanthus, of southern Asia and northern Africa, having fragrant foliage.
- cameo glass — an ornamental glass in which two layers, often blue and opaque white, have been cased, and on which the design has been treated in the manner of a cameo.
- camouflaged — concealed or disguised
- camouflages — Plural form of camouflage.