12-letter words containing g, a, b
- bingo caller — the person who shouts out the numbers to bingo players
- bio-organism — a dangerous fast-proliferating organism that could be used as the basis of a biological weapon
- biogeography — the branch of biology concerned with the geographical distribution of plants and animals
- biographical — Biographical facts, notes, or details are concerned with the events in someone's life.
- bioinorganic — pertaining to the biological activity of metal complexes and nonmetal compounds based on elements other than carbon (contrasted with bioorganic).
- biologically — pertaining to biology.
- biomagnetics — the study of magnetic fields as a form of therapy
- biomagnetism — animal magnetism.
- biscay green — a yellowish green.
- biting mania — an epidemic in which people have a compulsion to bite others, as in 15th-century Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands.
- 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
- black knight — a person or firm that makes an unwelcome takeover bid for a company
- black plague — Great Plague.
- black tongue — canine pellagra.
- black-figure — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece in the 7th and 6th centuries b.c., chiefly characterized by silhouetted figures painted in black slip on a red clay body, details incised into the design, and a two-dimensional structure of form and space.
- blackbirding — a common European thrush, Turdus merula, the male of which is black with a yellow bill.
- blaze orange — a very bright orange, as on a traffic cone.
- 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.
- blind flange — a disk for closing the end of a pipe, having holes for bolting it to a flange.
- block caving — a method of mining a large block of ore by systematically undercutting so the ore will cave. Compare cave (def 5a).
- block signal — a fixed railroad signal governing the movements of trains entering and using a given section of track.
- blood orange — a variety of orange all or part of the pulp of which is dark red when ripe
- bloomingdale — a town in NE Illinois.
- blotting-pad — an object to one side of which a piece of blotting paper is attached for blotting text handwritten in ink
- 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
- boar-hunting — the practice of hunting wild boars
- boarding out — the local-authority practice of placing a client in a foster family or voluntary establishment and paying for it
- boardsailing — windsurfing
- boatbuilding — Boatbuilding is the craft or industry of making boats.
- boating lake — a lake in a park where rowing boats can be hired
- boating trip — a trip or holiday in a boat such as a sailing boat or canal boat
- bodyboarding — the sport of surfing using a bodyboard
- 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 of allen — a region of peat bogs in central Ireland, west of Dublin. Area: over 10 sq km (3.75 sq miles)
- 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.
- boghead coal — compact bituminous coal that burns brightly and yields large quantities of tar and oil upon distillation.
- boilermaking — metal-working in heavy industry; plating or welding
- bombe glacée — a dessert of ice cream lined or filled with custard, cake crumbs, etc
- 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.
- boogie board — a small, flexible plastic surfboard, ridden lying down.
- boolean ring — a nonempty collection of sets having the properties that the union of two sets of the collection is a set in the collection and that the relative complement of each set with respect to any other set is in the collection.
- boomeranging — a bent or curved piece of tough wood used by the Australian Aborigines as a throwing club, one form of which can be thrown so as to return to the thrower.
- bootleg play — a play in which the quarterback pretends to hand the ball to a teammate, hides it by placing it next to his hip, and runs with it.
- border guard — a guard stationed on a border between countries