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12-letter words containing g, r, b, i

  • bowdlerizing — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
  • braggadocios — empty boasting; bragging.
  • brain damage — If someone suffers brain damage, their brain is damaged by an illness or injury so that they cannot function normally.
  • brainwashing — the process of brainwashing.
  • brake lining — a curved thin strip of an asbestos composition riveted to a brake shoe to provide it with a renewable surface
  • braunschweig — Brunswick
  • breadwinning — a person who earns a livelihood, especially one who also supports dependents.
  • breakdancing — a type of vigorous dance
  • breathtaking — If you say that something is breathtaking, you are emphasizing that it is extremely beautiful or amazing.
  • breckinridge — John Cabell1821-75; vice president of the U.S. (1857-61); Confederate general
  • bridge a gap — to remedy a deficiency
  • bridge chair — a lightweight folding chair, often part of a set of matching chairs and bridge table.
  • bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
  • bridge house — a deckhouse including a bridge or bridges for navigation.
  • bridge party — a gathering for the purpose of playing bridge
  • bridge table — a square card table with folding legs.
  • brigham city — a city in N Utah.
  • bright spark — If you say that some bright spark had a particular idea or did something, you mean that their idea or action was clever, or that it seemed clever but was silly in some way.
  • bright-field — of or relating to the illuminated region about the object of a microscope.
  • bring action — to start a lawsuit
  • bring around — If you bring someone around when they are unconscious, you make them become conscious again.
  • bring to bay — to force into a position from which retreat is impossible
  • broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
  • bronchogenic — bronchial in origin
  • brown bag it — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
  • brown-nosing — If you accuse someone of brown-nosing, you are saying in a rather offensive way that they are agreeing with someone important in order to get their support.
  • buccaneering — If you describe someone as buccaneering, you mean that they enjoy being involved in risky or even dishonest activities, especially in order to make money.
  • bumping race — (esp at Oxford and Cambridge) a race in which rowing eights start an equal distance one behind the other and each tries to bump the boat in front
  • bur marigold — any plant of the genus Bidens that has yellow flowers and pointed fruits that cling to fur and clothing: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • burning bush — a rutaceous shrub, Dictamnus fraxinella, of S Europe and Asia, whose glands release a volatile inflammable oil that can burn without harming the plant: identified as the bush from which God spoke to Moses (Exodus 3:2–4)
  • burning ghat — a platform at the top of a riverside ghat where Hindus cremate their dead.
  • butter icing — a mixture of butter and icing sugar used for filling or topping cakes
  • buying group — an association of companies who use their combined purchasing power to achieve the best prices from suppliers
  • buying order — an order to buy a certain security
  • buying power — the amount of services or goods a company, person, group or currency is able to purchase
  • buying spree — the hurried acquisition by a company, of goods, assets, or other companies
  • buying-power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
  • cabriole leg — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
  • cantabrigian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Cambridge or Cambridge University, or of Cambridge, Massachusetts, or Harvard University
  • carbonadoing — Present participle of carbonado.
  • cardigan bay — an inlet of St George's Channel, on the W coast of Wales
  • carriageable — (of a road, etc) able to be travelled in a carriage
  • charbroiling — Present participle of charbroil.
  • childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
  • chiliburgers — Plural form of chiliburger.
  • chinning bar — a piece of equipment used for doing pull-ups
  • cirl bunting — a European passerine bird Emberiza cirlus, of the bunting family Emberizidae
  • clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
  • club fighter — a mediocre boxer who fights mostly on programs at small sporting clubs
  • coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
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