12-letter words containing g, a, b, s
- billingsgate — the largest fish market in London, on the N bank of the River Thames; moved to new site at Canary Wharf in 1982 and the former building converted into offices
- bio-organism — a dangerous fast-proliferating organism that could be used as the basis of a biological weapon
- biomagnetics — the study of magnetic fields as a form of therapy
- biomagnetism — animal magnetism.
- biscay green — a yellowish green.
- biting stage — the second part of the oral phase of psychosexual development, approximately 8 to18 months of age, during which a child has the urge to bite or chew objects.
- black grouse — a large N European grouse, Lyrurus tetrix, the male of which has a bluish-black plumage and lyre-shaped tail
- blazing star — a North American liliaceous plant, Chamaelirium luteum, with a long spike of small white flowers
- blind casing — (in a box window frame) a rough framework to which the trim is secured.
- block signal — a fixed railroad signal governing the movements of trains entering and using a given section of track.
- blues guitar — blues guitar music
- bluesnarfing — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to steal contact details, ring tones, images, etc from another
- boardsailing — windsurfing
- 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
- bog rosemary — any of several species (genus Andromeda) of evergreen shrubs of the heath family, native to cold bogs of North America and Europe, with pink flowers and narrow leaves
- bog-standard — If you describe something as bog-standard you mean that is an ordinary example of its kind, with no exciting or interesting features.
- bond washing — a series of deals in bonds made with the intention of avoiding taxation
- bonnet glass — monteith (def 2).
- bonnet-glass — a large punch bowl, usually of silver, having a notched rim for suspending punch cups.
- bottle glass — glass used for making bottles, consisting of a silicate of sodium, calcium, and aluminium
- bottom grass — any grass that grows on bottoms or lowlands.
- braggadocios — empty boasting; bragging.
- brainwashing — the process of brainwashing.
- braunschweig — Brunswick
- breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
- bright spark — If you say that some bright spark had a particular idea or did something, you mean that their idea or action was clever, or that it seemed clever but was silly in some way.
- broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
- brooks range — a mountain range in N Alaska. Highest peak: Mount Isto, 2761 m (9058 ft)
- buffel grass — grass used for pasture in Africa, India, and Australia
- 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
- bushwhacking — to make one's way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc.
- cabbage rose — a rose, Rosa centifolia, with a round compact full-petalled head
- cablecasting — relating to broadcasting by cable
- chambersburg — a city in central Pennsylvania.
- charlesbourg — city in S Quebec, Canada: pop. 71,000
- class b drug — (in Britain) any of the second most dangerous group of controlled drugs, including amphetamine
- coral gables — a city in SE Florida, near Miami.
- crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
- crossbarring — stripes, esp those of an animal
- cybercasting — the broadcasting of news, entertainment, etc., using the Internet, specifically the World Wide Web.
- disagreeable — contrary to one's taste or liking; unpleasant; offensive; repugnant.
- disagreeably — In a disagreeable manner.
- disambiguate — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
- disembarking — Present participle of disembark.
- disembrangle — to disentangle (a person or thing)
- double sugar — disaccharide.
- east bengali — of or relating to East Bengal (now Bangladesh) or its inhabitants
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- elbow grease — physical effort