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13-letter words containing g, r, a, d, b

  • bridge player — a person who plays the game of bridge
  • bridging loan — A bridging loan is money that a bank lends you for a short time, for example so that you can buy a new house before you have sold the one you already own.
  • bring forward — If you bring forward a meeting or event, you arrange for it to take place at an earlier date or time than had been planned.
  • burial ground — A burial ground is a place where bodies are buried, especially an ancient place.
  • carbo-loading — Informal. carbohydrate loading.
  • carbon dating — Carbon dating is a system of calculating the age of a very old object by measuring the amount of radioactive carbon it contains.
  • child-bearing — the act or process of carrying and giving birth to a child
  • cooling board — a plank for laying out a corpse.
  • crepe bandage — a bandage made of light cotton crepe
  • cutting board — A cutting board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
  • dangleberries — Plural form of dangleberry.
  • daughterboard — a small circuit board that can be attached to the motherboard of a computer
  • decarbonating — Present participle of decarbonate.
  • decarbonizing — Present participle of decarbonize.
  • decarburizing — Present participle of decarburize.
  • decerebrating — Present participle of decerebrate.
  • degradability — susceptible to chemical breakdown.
  • designer baby — People sometimes refer to a baby that has developed from an embryo with certain desired characteristics as a designer baby.
  • detribalizing — Present participle of detribalize.
  • disagreeables — annoying things
  • disambiguator — Anything that serves to disambiguate.
  • dischargeable — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
  • disintegrable — Capable of being disintegrated.
  • disobligatory — not obligatory
  • disregardable — to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
  • double dagger — a mark (‡) used for references, as footnotes.
  • double garage — a garage that can hold two vehicles
  • dragging-beam — (in a hipped roof) a short beam holding the foot of a hip rafter to counteract its thrust.
  • drainage tube — a tube that drains fluid from an incision or body cavity during surgery
  • draughtboards — Plural form of draughtboard.
  • draughtsboard — The board on which draughts is played, resembling a chessboard but (depending on the game variation) often having a side length of ten squares rather than eight.
  • drawing board — a rectangular board on which paper is placed or mounted for drawing or drafting.
  • drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
  • durable goods — Durable goods or durables are goods such as televisions or cars which are expected to last a long time, and are bought infrequently.
  • edward gibbon — Edward, 1737–94, English historian.
  • ferret badger — any of several small omnivores of the genus Melogale, of southern and eastern Asia, having a bushy tail and distinctive white or yellow markings on a black face.
  • fingerbreadth — the breadth of a finger: approximately 3/4 inch (2 cm).
  • flabbergasted — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • flooring brad — a brad having a very small head, made in lengths from 2 to 4 inches (5 to 10 cm).
  • garden balsam — a fleshy annual garden impatiens (Impatiens balsamina) with roselike white, lavender, yellow, pink, or red blossoms borne along the main stem in leaf axils
  • garden suburb — a suburb of a large established town or city, planned along the lines of a garden city
  • gender binary — a classification system consisting of two genders, male and female.
  • gingerbreaded — flavoured with gingerbread
  • go over-board — over the side of a ship or boat, especially into or in the water: to fall overboard.
  • good behavior — satisfactory, proper, or polite conduct.
  • granary bread — bread made from Granary flour
  • great bustard — a large bustard, Otis tarda, of southern and central Europe and western and central Asia, having a wingspread of about 8 feet (2.4 meters).
  • groundbreaker — a person who is an originator, innovator, or pioneer in a particular activity.
  • grylloblattid — a primitive insect of the order Grylloblattidea, having a soft, unpigmented wingless body with long antennae and no eyes, living under stones in moderately high mountains of the western U.S., Japan, and the U.S.S.R.
  • heli-boarding — the sport of snowboarding on mountains or glaciers accessible only by helicopter or skiplane
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