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

  • buccaneerings — the characteristic actions of a buccaneer
  • budget period — the time which a budget covers
  • buggin's turn — promotion by seniority or rotation rather than merit.
  • buggins' turn — the principle of awarding an appointment to members of a group in turn, rather than according to merit
  • build bridges — to promote reconciliation or cooperation between hostile groups or people
  • bully-ragging — to bully; harass: to bullyrag fraternity plebs.
  • burglariously — in the manner of a burglar or buglary
  • burial ground — A burial ground is a place where bodies are buried, especially an ancient place.
  • burning glass — a convex lens for concentrating the sun's rays into a small area to produce heat or fire
  • burrowing owl — a ground owl (Athene cunicularia) of the prairie regions of North and South America having long legs and a small head: it makes its nest in abandoned burrows
  • bus mastering — bus master
  • butterfingers — a person who drops things inadvertently or fails to catch things
  • 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.
  • carpetbagging — relating to carpetbaggers or to the practice of carpetbaggers
  • carriage bolt — a round-headed bolt for timber, threaded along part of its shank, inserted into holes already drilled.
  • categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
  • categorizable — Capable of being categorized.
  • chargeability — that may or should be charged: chargeable duty.
  • chickenburger — A hot sandwich made of a patty of chicken in a bun, often with other ingredients.
  • child-bearing — the act or process of carrying and giving birth to a child
  • chronobiology — the branch of biology concerned with the periodicity occurring in living organisms
  • circumambages — round-about methods
  • clearing bank — The clearing banks are the main banks in Britain. Clearing banks use the central clearing house in London to deal with other banks.
  • clearing bath — any solution for removing material from the surface of a photographic image, as silver halide, metallic silver, or a dye or stain.
  • climbing fern — any of several chiefly tropical, vinelike ferns of the genus Lygodium, having climbing or trailing stems.
  • climbing iron — either of a pair of metal frames with spikes that may be strapped over footgear, on the inside of the leg to aid in climbing trees, public utility poles, etc.
  • climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
  • cobelligerent — a country fighting in a war on the side of another country
  • cobol fingers — (jargon)   /koh'bol fing'grz/ Reported from Sweden, a hypothetical disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see candygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
  • collaborating — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
  • coloring book — A coloring book is a book of simple drawings which children can color in.
  • cooling board — a plank for laying out a corpse.
  • copyrightable — the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc.: works granted such right by law on or after January 1, 1978, are protected for the lifetime of the author or creator and for a period of 70 years after his or her death.
  • corrigibility — The quality or state of being corrigible.
  • corroborating — Present participle of corroborate.
  • counterboring — a tool for enlarging a drilled hole for a portion of its length, as to permit sinking a screw head.
  • cover bidding — the act of tendering an artificially high price for a contract, on the assumption that the tender will not be accepted
  • cross bedding — layering within one or more beds in a series of rock strata that does not run parallel to the plane of stratification
  • crossbreeding — Present participle of crossbreed.
  • cryobiologist — A biologist who specializes in cryobiology.
  • cutting board — A cutting board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
  • cyberbullying — Cyberbullying is the use of the Internet to frighten or upset someone, usually by sending them unpleasant messages.
  • cybershopping — Shopping by means of computers or the Internet.
  • cyberslacking — (informal) Use of the Internet during work hours for unrelated tasks.
  • cyberstalking — Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet to contact someone or find out information about them in a way that is annoying or frightening.
  • dangleberries — Plural form of dangleberry.
  • decarbonating — Present participle of decarbonate.
  • decarbonizing — Present participle of decarbonize.
  • decarburizing — Present participle of decarburize.
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