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13-letter words containing e, d, g

  • bearing sword — a large sword carried for its owner by a squire or servant because of its size.
  • bedding plane — the surface separating two successive layers of stratified rock
  • bedding plant — A bedding plant is a plant which lasts for one year. It is put in a flower bed before it flowers, and is then removed when it has finished flowering.
  • bedding-plant — bedmaker (def 1).
  • beg to differ — politely disagree
  • belly landing — the landing of an aircraft on its fuselage without use of its landing gear
  • benightedness — intellectually or morally ignorant; unenlightened: benighted ages of barbarism and superstition.
  • berchtesgaden — a town in Germany, in SE Bavaria: site of the fortified mountain retreat of Adolf Hitler. Pop: 7667 (2003 est)
  • bermuda grass — a widely distributed grass, Cynodon dactylon, with wiry creeping rootstocks and several purplish spikes of flowers arising from a single point: used for lawns, pasturage, binding sand dunes, etc
  • bevelled edge — an inclined edge; one not at 90 degrees
  • bewilderingly — extremely confusing: a bewildering schedule of events.
  • bible reading — a passage from the Bible, esp one read in a service
  • big enchilada — enchilada (def 2).
  • big-heartedly — in a big-hearted manner
  • binding screw — a screw used to secure one thing to another
  • biodegradable — Something that is biodegradable breaks down or decays naturally without any special scientific treatment, and can therefore be thrown away without causing pollution.
  • bitch goddess — worldly or material success personified as a goddess, especially one requiring sacrifice and being essentially destructive: He went to New York to worship the bitch goddess.
  • bleeding edge — If you are at the bleeding edge of a particular field of activity, you are involved in its most advanced or most exciting developments.
  • blood glucose — Blood glucose is glucose (= a type of sugar) in the bloodstream.
  • 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.
  • board meeting — a meeting of the board of a company or other organization
  • boarding fees — fees paid for boarding at a school
  • boardinghouse — a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests
  • 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
  • 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
  • boroglyceride — any compound containing boric acid and glycerol, used chiefly as an antiseptic.
  • 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).
  • 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
  • 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
  • brownie guide — a member of the Brownie Guides, one of the junior branches (aged 7–10 years) in The Guide Association
  • 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 line — the boundary line along a street beyond which buildings must not project
  • 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.
  • cabbage aphid — a small, blue aphid, Brevicoryne brassicae, that feeds on cabbage and related plants.
  • cable molding — a molding in the form of a rope.
  • cadmium green — a pigment used in painting, consisting of a mixture of hydrated oxide of chromium with cadmium sulfide, and characterized by its strong green color and slow drying rate.
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