12-letter words containing e, g, d
- bed-blocking — the use of hospital beds by elderly patients who cannot leave hospital because they have no place in a residential care home
- bedraggledly — In a bedraggled manner.
- begrudgingly — If you do something begrudgingly, you do it unwillingly.
- beijing duck — a roasted duck prized for its crisp skin, prepared by forcing air between skin and meat, brushing with sugar water, and hanging up to dry before final cooking.
- bell gardens — a town in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- below ground — If something is below ground or below the ground, it is in the ground.
- bermuda high — a subtropical high centered near Bermuda.
- bevel siding — siding composed of tapered pieces, as clapboards, laid with the thicker lower edge of any piece overlapping the thinner upper edge of the piece below it.
- bird nesting — the activity of searching for birds' nests as a hobby
- biting midge — any small fragile dipterous fly of the family Ceratopogonidae, most of which suck the blood of mammals, birds, or other insects
- blind flange — a disk for closing the end of a pipe, having holes for bolting it to a flange.
- blitzkrieged — blitz (defs 1, 2, 5).
- blood orange — a variety of orange all or part of the pulp of which is dark red when ripe
- bloodletting — Bloodletting is violence or killing between groups of people, especially between rival armies.
- bloomingdale — a town in NE Illinois.
- blue dogwood — a shrub or small tree, Cornus alternifolia, of eastern North America, having clusters of white flowers and bluish fruit.
- body english — a follow-through motion of the body, as after bowling a ball, in a semi-involuntary or joking effort to control the ball's movement
- bog asphodel — either of two liliaceous plants, Narthecium ossifragum of Europe or N. americanum of North America, that grow in boggy places and have small yellow flowers and grasslike leaves
- boghead coal — compact bituminous coal that burns brightly and yields large quantities of tar and oil upon distillation.
- bonded goods — goods which have been deposited in a bonded warehouse
- bonding wire — A bonding wire is a wire connecting two pieces of equipment, often for hazard prevention.
- boogie board — a small, flexible plastic surfboard, ridden lying down.
- border guard — a guard stationed on a border between countries
- border light — a striplight hung upstage of a border, for lighting the stage.
- bottle gourd — an Old World cucurbitaceous climbing plant, Lagenaria siceraria, having large hard-shelled gourds as fruits
- bound charge — any electric charge that is bound to an atom or molecule (opposed to free charge).
- bowdlerizing — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- brain damage — If someone suffers brain damage, their brain is damaged by an illness or injury so that they cannot function normally.
- breadwinning — a person who earns a livelihood, especially one who also supports dependents.
- break ground — to do something that has not been done before
- breakdancing — a type of vigorous dance
- breckinridge — John Cabell1821-75; vice president of the U.S. (1857-61); Confederate general
- 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 cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
- bridge house — a deckhouse including a bridge or bridges for navigation.
- bridge party — a gathering for the purpose of playing bridge
- bridge table — a square card table with folding legs.
- bright-field — of or relating to the illuminated region about the object of a microscope.
- bumper guard — either of two vertical crosspieces attached to a bumper of a motor vehicle to prevent it from locking bumpers with another vehicle.
- bundle buggy — a shopping cart, usually one owned by the shopper rather than one provided by the store.
- buying order — an order to buy a certain security
- by and large — You use by and large to indicate that a statement is mostly but not completely true.
- calligraphed — Simple past tense and past participle of calligraph.
- 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)
- campshedding — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
- canada goose — A Canada goose is a grayish-brown wild goose that comes from North America.
- canned goods — tinned food produce
- cape delgado — a headland on the NE coast of Mozambique
- cardiomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the heart.