13-letter words containing e, n, g
- be upstanding — (in a court of law) a direction to all persons present to rise to their feet before the judge enters or leaves the court
- beaking joint — a straight joint made by several members, as strips of flooring, ending at the same line.
- beanbag chair — a chair like a large beanbag covered with vinyl, fabric, etc. and filled with foam pellets, as of polystyrene, that shift about to fit one's body
- bearing plate — a heavy metal plate for receiving and distributing concentrated weight, as from a column or one end of a truss.
- 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).
- beer-swilling — in the habit of drinking a lot of beer
- beginningless — having no beginning
- beleaguerment — a blockade or siege
- belgian congo — former Belgian colony (1908-60) in central Africa: now the country of Democratic Republic of the Congo
- belligerently — aggressively
- belly landing — the landing of an aircraft on its fuselage without use of its landing gear
- belongingness — the human state of being an essential part of something
- benching iron — a triangular, pronged plate driven into the ground to provide a temporary bench mark or turning point.
- bengal quince — bael.
- benightedness — intellectually or morally ignorant; unenlightened: benighted ages of barbarism and superstition.
- benthopelagic — relating to species living at the bottom of the sea
- benzoyl group — the univalent group C 7 H 5 O–, derived from benzoic acid.
- berchtesgaden — a town in Germany, in SE Bavaria: site of the fortified mountain retreat of Adolf Hitler. Pop: 7667 (2003 est)
- bergamot mint — an aromatic herb, Mentha piperita citrata, having a lemonlike odor when crushed.
- bergen-belsen — Belsen.
- bering strait — a strait between Alaska and Russia, connecting the Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean
- beseemingness — a quality or state that is beseeming
- beta globulin — a blood plasma protein that is separable from other globulins by electrophoresis.
- beta-blocking — acting to inhibit the activity of the nerves that are stimulated by adrenaline
- bethnal green — a former borough of London, England, N of the Thames.
- bewilderingly — extremely confusing: a bewildering schedule of events.
- bible reading — a passage from the Bible, esp one read in a service
- bibliogenesis — the art of producing and publishing books.
- big enchilada — enchilada (def 2).
- big-cone pine — Coulter pine.
- bighorn-river — a river flowing from central Wyoming to the Yellowstone River in S Montana. 336 miles (540 km) long.
- bignoniaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Bignoniaceae, a chiefly tropical family of trees, shrubs, and lianas, including jacaranda, bignonia, and catalpa
- billing cycle — the schedule of recurrent times in any regular system of preparing or sending bills.
- binding screw — a screw used to secure one thing to another
- bioenergetics — the study of energy transformations in living organisms and systems
- biogeneticist — genetic engineering.
- biotechnology — Biotechnology is the use of living parts such as cells or bacteria in industry and technology.
- birectangular — having two right angles.
- birefringence — the splitting of a light ray, generally by a crystal, into two components that travel at different velocities and are polarized at right angles to each other
- bitonal image — (graphics) An image consisting only of a foreground colour and a background colour. Compare monochrome.
- bitter orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
- black english — the group of related dialects of American English spoken variously by many black people in the U.S.
- blaenau gwent — a county borough of SE Wales, created in 1996 from NW Gwent. Administrative centre: Ebbw Vale. Pop: 68 900 (2003 est). Area: 109 sq km (42 sq miles)
- blamestorming — a discussion or meeting for the purpose of assigning blame.
- blastogenesis — the theory that inherited characteristics are transmitted only by germ plasm
- 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.
- blinkenlights — /blink'*n-li:tz/ Front-panel diagnostic lights on a computer, especially a dinosaur. Derives from the last word of the famous blackletter-Gothic sign in mangled pseudo-German that once graced about half the computer rooms in the English-speaking world. One version ran in its entirety as follows: In an amusing example of turnabout-is-fair-play, German hackers have developed their own versions of the blinkenlights poster in fractured English, one of which is reproduced here: ATTENTION This room is fullfilled mit special electronische equippment. Fingergrabbing and pressing the cnoeppkes from the computers is allowed for die experts only! So all the "lefthanders" stay away and do not disturben the brainstorming von here working intelligencies. Otherwise you will be out thrown and kicked anderswhere! Also: please keep still and only watchen astaunished the blinkenlights. See also geef.