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13-letter words containing g, e, n, i

  • bargain offer — something for sale at a low price
  • bargain price — a low price
  • barnsbreaking — noisy and exuberant activity; boisterous mischief-making
  • barrel engine — an engine having cylinders arranged around and parallel to a shaft, which they rotate by means of the contact of their piston rods with a swash plate or cam on the shaft.
  • basic english — a simplified form of English, proposed by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, containing a vocabulary of approximately 850 of the commonest English words, intended as an international language
  • bastard eigne — the first-born illegitimate son of parents whose second son was legitimate.
  • battering ram — A battering ram is a long heavy piece of wood that is used to knock down the locked doors of buildings.
  • battering-ram — an ancient military device with a heavy horizontal ram for battering down walls, gates, etc.
  • batting order — the sequence in which hitters will bat in a given game, determined in advance by the team manager.
  • bcg (vaccine) — a vaccine prepared from an attenuated strain of the tubercle bacillus, used for immunization against tuberculosis
  • be hard going — If you say that something is hard going, you mean it is difficult and requires a lot of effort.
  • be nothing to — not to concern or be significant to (someone)
  • 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
  • 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
  • bergamot mint — an aromatic herb, Mentha piperita citrata, having a lemonlike odor when crushed.
  • 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
  • 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.
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