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12-letter words containing g, e, s, t

  • baking sheet — A baking sheet is a flat piece of metal on which you bake foods such as biscuits or pies in an oven.
  • basic weight — basis weight.
  • basis weight — the weight in pounds of a ream of paper of a basic size, usually 25 × 38 inches (63 × 96 cm) for book stock, 17 × 22 inches (43 × 55 cm) for writing stock, and 20 × 26 inches (50 × 66 cm) for cover stock.
  • basketmaking — The construction of baskets, especially by traditional means.
  • battlewagons — Plural form of battlewagon.
  • beardtongues — Plural form of beardtongue.
  • beggar-ticks — any of various plants, such as the bur marigold and tick trefoil, having fruits or seeds that cling to clothing, fur, etc
  • belligerents — warlike; given to waging war.
  • best-selling — A best-selling product such as a book is very popular and a large quantity of it has been sold.
  • beta testing — (programming)   Evaluation of a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software (or possibly hardware) by making it available to selected users ("beta testers") before it goes on general distribution. Beta testign aims to discover bugs that only occur in certain environments or under certain patterns of use, while reducing the volume of feedback to a manageable level. The testers benefit by having earlier access to new products, features and fixes. Beta testing may be preceded by "alpha testing", performed in-house by a handful of users (e.g. other developers or friends), who can be expected to give rapid, high quality feedback on design and usability. Once the product is considered to be usable for its intended purpose it then moves on to "beta testing" by a larger, but typically still limited, number of ordinary users, who may include external customers. Some companies such as Google or Degree Jungle stretch the definition, claiming their products are "in beta" for many months by millions of users. The term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the industry. "Alpha test" was the unit test, module test or component test phase; "Beta Test" was initial system test. These themselves came from earlier A- and B-tests for hardware. The A-test was a feasibility and manufacturability evaluation done before any commitment to design and development. The B-test was a demonstration that the engineering model functioned as specified. The C-test (corresponding to today's beta) was the B-test performed on early samples of the production design.
  • betting news — the news of the latest odds on winners of matches, races and competitions
  • betting shop — A betting shop is a place where people can go to bet on something such as a horse race.
  • betting slip — a piece of paper used to place a bet
  • bibliopegist — a bookbinder
  • 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
  • biomagnetics — the study of magnetic fields as a form of therapy
  • biomagnetism — animal magnetism.
  • bird nesting — the activity of searching for birds' nests as a hobby
  • biting louse — any wingless insect of the order Mallophaga, such as the chicken louse: external parasites of birds and mammals with biting mouthparts
  • 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.
  • blisteringly — causing a blister or blisters.
  • blue-singlet — working-class
  • blues guitar — blues guitar music
  • bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
  • 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
  • breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
  • bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
  • cablecasting — relating to broadcasting by cable
  • camping site — A camping site is the same as a campsite.
  • carpet grass — either of two grasses, Axonopus affinis or A. compressus, native to tropical and subtropical America.
  • caster angle — the forward or backward tilt of the steering axis in a vehicle, when considered from the side
  • caster sugar — Caster sugar is white sugar that has been ground into fine grains. It is used in cooking.
  • casting vote — When a committee has given an equal number of votes for and against a proposal, the chairperson can give a casting vote. This vote decides whether or not the proposal will be passed.
  • categorising — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • center stage — If something or someone takes center stage, they become very important or noticeable.
  • centimorgans — Plural form of centimorgan.
  • centralising — Present participle of centralise.
  • centre stage — If something or someone takes centre stage, they become very important or noticeable.
  • chaetognaths — Plural form of chaetognath.
  • charge sheet — a document on which a police officer enters details of the charge against a prisoner and the court in which he will appear
  • chitterlings — the intestines of a pig or other animal prepared as a dish
  • choreologist — a person who is expert in choreology
  • christenings — Plural form of christening.
  • claw setting — a jewellery setting with clawlike prongs
  • clearsighted — seeing clearly
  • cleistogamic — Alternative form of cleistogamous.
  • closefitting — fitting tightly, esp. in such a way as to show the contours of the body
  • closing date — The closing date for a competition or offer is the final date by which entries or applications must be received.
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