12-letter words containing g, e, t, b
- biting louse — any wingless insect of the order Mallophaga, such as the chicken louse: external parasites of birds and mammals with biting mouthparts
- biting midge — any small fragile dipterous fly of the family Ceratopogonidae, most of which suck the blood of mammals, birds, or other insects
- 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 tongue — canine pellagra.
- blisteringly — causing a blister or blisters.
- blitzkrieged — blitz (defs 1, 2, 5).
- bloodletting — Bloodletting is violence or killing between groups of people, especially between rival armies.
- blue whiting — a fish of the cod family, Micromesistius poutassou
- blue-singlet — working-class
- blueprinting — a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, which produces a white line on a blue background.
- blues guitar — blues guitar music
- bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
- boating lake — a lake in a park where rowing boats can be hired
- bogon filter — /boh'gon fil'tr/ Any device, software or hardware, that limits or suppresses the flow and/or emission of bogons. "Engineering hacked a bogon filter between the Cray and the VAXen, and now we're getting fewer dropped packets." See also bogosity.
- bonnet glass — monteith (def 2).
- bonnet rouge — a red cap worn by ardent supporters of the French Revolution
- bonnet-glass — a large punch bowl, usually of silver, having a notched rim for suspending punch cups.
- 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 light — a striplight hung upstage of a border, for lighting the stage.
- bottle glass — glass used for making bottles, consisting of a silicate of sodium, calcium, and aluminium
- bottle gourd — an Old World cucurbitaceous climbing plant, Lagenaria siceraria, having large hard-shelled gourds as fruits
- bottle green — a deep green.
- bottle-green — Something that is bottle-green is dark green in colour.
- boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
- bounce light — Also, bounce lighting. light that is bounced off a reflective surface onto the subject in order to achieve a softer lighting effect.
- bouncing bet — a perennial soapwort (Saponaria officinalis) with clusters of pinkish flowers
- breakthrough — A breakthrough is an important development or achievement.
- breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
- breath group — a sequence of sounds articulated in the course of a single exhalation; an utterance or part of an utterance produced between pauses for breath.
- breathtaking — If you say that something is breathtaking, you are emphasizing that it is extremely beautiful or amazing.
- bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
- bridge party — a gathering for the purpose of playing bridge
- bridge table — a square card table with folding legs.
- bright-field — of or relating to the illuminated region about the object of a microscope.
- bugger about — If someone buggers about or buggers around, they waste time doing unnecessary things.
- burnt orange — of a dark orange colour, sometimes due to calcination of orange pigment
- bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
- butter icing — a mixture of butter and icing sugar used for filling or topping cakes
- cabbage moth — a common brownish noctuid moth, Mamestra brassicae, the larva of which is destructive of cabbages and other plants
- cabbage tree — a tree, Cordyline australis, of New Zealand having a tall branchless trunk and a palmlike top
- cable length — a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
- cablecasting — relating to broadcasting by cable
- carpetbagged — Simple past tense and past participle of carpetbag.
- carpetbagger — If you call someone a carpetbagger, you disapprove of them because they are trying to become a politician in an area which is not their home, simply because they think they are more likely to succeed there.
- club fighter — a mediocre boxer who fights mostly on programs at small sporting clubs
- cobalt green — a medium, yellowish-green color.
- conglobulate — to form into a globe or ball
- cybercasting — the broadcasting of news, entertainment, etc., using the Internet, specifically the World Wide Web.
- debilitating — tending to weaken or enfeeble
- debut single — the first single produced by a particular singer or band