13-letter words containing g, e
- 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.
- battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
- bay of bengal — a wide arm of the Indian Ocean, between India and Myanmar
- 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
- beg to differ — politely disagree
- beggar's-lice — any of several plants, esp the stickseed, having small prickly fruits that adhere to clothing, fur, etc
- beginningless — having no beginning
- beige toaster — Macintosh
- beleaguerment — a blockade or siege
- 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
- benzoyl group — the univalent group C 7 H 5 O–, derived from benzoic acid.
- berchtesgaden — a town in Germany, in SE Bavaria: site of the fortified mountain retreat of Adolf Hitler. Pop: 7667 (2003 est)
- bergamot mint — an aromatic herb, Mentha piperita citrata, having a lemonlike odor when crushed.
- bergen-belsen — Belsen.
- bering strait — a strait between Alaska and Russia, connecting the Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean
- berkeley logo — (language) A Logo interpreter by Brian Harvey <[email protected]>. Berkeley Logo programs will run on Unix, IBM PC, or Macintosh. It doesn't do anything fancy about graphics and only allows one turtle. Version: 4.6, as of 2000-03-21.
- bermuda grass — a widely distributed grass, Cynodon dactylon, with wiry creeping rootstocks and several purplish spikes of flowers arising from a single point: used for lawns, pasturage, binding sand dunes, etc
- 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
- bethnal green — a former borough of London, England, N of the Thames.
- bevelled edge — an inclined edge; one not at 90 degrees
- beverage room — a room in a tavern, hotel, etc, in which alcoholic drinks are served
- bewilderingly — extremely confusing: a bewildering schedule of events.
- bible college — an institution of higher education that specializes in Bible study, typically for the education of Protestant clergy
- bible reading — a passage from the Bible, esp one read in a service
- bibliogenesis — the art of producing and publishing books.
- bibliographer — an expert in bibliography
- big enchilada — enchilada (def 2).
- big-cone pine — Coulter pine.