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13-letter words containing g, e, r, o

  • booking clerk — A booking clerk is a person who sells tickets, especially in a railway station.
  • boole, george — George Boole
  • boomerang kid — a young adult who, after having lived on his or her own for a time, returns to live in the parental home, usually due to financial problems caused by unemployment or the high cost of living independently
  • borage family — any member of the plant family Boraginaceae, typified by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having simple, alternate, hairy leaves and usually blue, five-lobed flowers in a cluster that uncoils as they bloom, including borage, bugloss, and forget-me-not.
  • boraginaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Boraginaceae, a family of temperate and tropical typically hairy-leaved flowering plants that includes forget-me-not, lungwort, borage, comfrey, and heliotrope
  • boring sponge — any of a family (Clionidae) of sponges that settle on and dissolve the shells of clams
  • boroglyceride — any compound containing boric acid and glycerol, used chiefly as an antiseptic.
  • bouquet garni — A bouquet garni is a bunch of herbs that are tied together and used in cooking to add flavour to the food.
  • bourdon gauge — a type of aneroid pressure gauge consisting of a flattened curved tube attached to a pointer that moves around a dial. As the pressure in the tube increases the tube tends to straighten and the pointer indicates the applied pressure
  • bourguignonne — Burgundy (def 5).
  • bowling green — A bowling green is an area of very smooth, short grass on which the game of bowls or lawn bowling is played.
  • bowling-green — a game played with wooden balls on a level, closely mowed green having a slight bias, the object being to roll one's ball as near as possible to a smaller white ball at the other end of the green. Also called bowls, bowling on the green. Compare bowl2 (def 2), bowling green, jack1 (def 7), rink (def 5).
  • boys' brigade — (in Britain) an organization for boys, founded in 1883, with the aim of promoting discipline and self-respect
  • brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
  • brain surgeon — a surgeon who specializes in brain surgery
  • braking power — the ability of a braking system to cause a vehicle to come to a halt
  • branded goods — goods that are identifiable as being the product of a particular manufacturer or marketing company
  • break through — If you break through a barrier, you succeed in forcing your way through it.
  • breakthroughs — a military movement or advance all the way through and beyond an enemy's front-line defense.
  • breechloading — loaded at the breech.
  • bring home to — to convince of
  • bring to bear — to bring into operation or effect
  • bring to life — to bring back to consciousness
  • brownie guide — a member of the Brownie Guides, one of the junior branches (aged 7–10 years) in The Guide Association
  • budget period — the time which a budget covers
  • buffalo grove — a city in NE Illinois.
  • cache storage — cache (def 3).
  • canon regular — a clergyman of certain religious communities following a monastic rule
  • canton ginger — preserved or crystallized ginger of fine quality.
  • cape marigold — any composite plant of the genus Dimorphotheca, having variously colored, daisylike flowers.
  • cardiomegalia — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
  • cariogenicity — conducive to the production or promotion of dental caries: the cariogenic factors in sweets.
  • carnot engine — an engine using a Carnot cycle of operations.
  • carriage bolt — a round-headed bolt for timber, threaded along part of its shank, inserted into holes already drilled.
  • cartographers — Plural form of cartographer.
  • catalog verse — verse made by compiling long lists of everyday objects, names, or events, united by a common theme and often didactic in tone.
  • categorematic — (of a word) able to stand alone as a term or subject
  • categorically — without exceptions or conditions; absolute; unqualified and unconditional: a categorical denial.
  • categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
  • categorizable — Capable of being categorized.
  • centre ground — the nominal space in the political spectrum that is neither right or left
  • cervicography — a method of cervical screening in which the neck of the uterus is photographed to facilitate the early detection of cancer
  • chamber organ — a small compact organ used esp for the authentic performance of preclassical music
  • chandernagore — a port in E India, in S West Bengal on the Hooghly River: a former French settlement (1686–1950). Pop: 162 166 (2001)
  • charcoal grey — a very dark grey colour
  • checkout girl — a female employee who works on a supermarket checkout
  • cheddar gorge — a pass through the Mendip Hills renowned for its stalactitic caverns and rare limestone flora
  • cheesemongers — Plural form of cheesemonger.
  • chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
  • chicago ridge — a town in NE Illinois.
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