12-letter words containing g, r, b
- biscay green — a yellowish green.
- black grouse — a large N European grouse, Lyrurus tetrix, the male of which has a bluish-black plumage and lyre-shaped tail
- black-figure — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece in the 7th and 6th centuries b.c., chiefly characterized by silhouetted figures painted in black slip on a red clay body, details incised into the design, and a two-dimensional structure of form and space.
- blackbirding — a common European thrush, Turdus merula, the male of which is black with a yellow bill.
- blaze orange — a very bright orange, as on a traffic cone.
- blazing star — a North American liliaceous plant, Chamaelirium luteum, with a long spike of small white flowers
- blisteringly — causing a blister or blisters.
- blitzkrieged — blitz (defs 1, 2, 5).
- blood orange — a variety of orange all or part of the pulp of which is dark red when ripe
- blow through — to leave; make off
- blue springs — a town in W Missouri.
- 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
- bluesnarfing — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to steal contact details, ring tones, images, etc from another
- boar-hunting — the practice of hunting wild boars
- boarding out — the local-authority practice of placing a client in a foster family or voluntary establishment and paying for it
- boardsailing — windsurfing
- boating trip — a trip or holiday in a boat such as a sailing boat or canal boat
- bodyboarding — the sport of surfing using a bodyboard
- bog rosemary — any of several species (genus Andromeda) of evergreen shrubs of the heath family, native to cold bogs of North America and Europe, with pink flowers and narrow leaves
- bog-iron ore — a deposit of impure limonite formed in low, wet areas.
- bog-standard — If you describe something as bog-standard you mean that is an ordinary example of its kind, with no exciting or interesting features.
- bognor regis — a resort in S England, in West Sussex on the English Channel: electronics industries. Regis was added to the name after King George V's convalescence there in 1929. Pop: 62 141 (2001)
- 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.
- boilermaking — metal-working in heavy industry; plating or welding
- bolt upright — If someone is sitting or standing bolt upright, they are sitting or standing very straight.
- bonding wire — A bonding wire is a wire connecting two pieces of equipment, often for hazard prevention.
- bonnet rouge — a red cap worn by ardent supporters of the French Revolution
- boogie board — a small, flexible plastic surfboard, ridden lying down.
- book burning — the destruction of writings of which the subject, the view of the author, or the like is considered politically or socially objectionable: used as a means of censorship or oppression.
- bookcrossing — the practice of deliberately leaving books in places where they will be found and read by other people
- booking form — a form used to book a holiday, accommodation, etc
- boolean ring — a nonempty collection of sets having the properties that the union of two sets of the collection is a set in the collection and that the relative complement of each set with respect to any other set is in the collection.
- boomeranging — a bent or curved piece of tough wood used by the Australian Aborigines as a throwing club, one form of which can be thrown so as to return to the thrower.
- border guard — a guard stationed on a border between countries
- border light — a striplight hung upstage of a border, for lighting the stage.
- born-digital — relating to or noting documents, images, etc., that are created and managed in electronic form: electronic preservation of born-digital content; a born-digital e-book that will not be available in print.
- borough hall — a building housing the administrative offices of a borough.
- 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.
- bottom grass — any grass that grows on bottoms or lowlands.
- boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
- bound charge — any electric charge that is bound to an atom or molecule (opposed to free charge).
- bourgeoisify — to convert to a bourgeois attitude or appearance
- bowdlerizing — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- boxgrove man — a type of primitive man, probably Homo heidelbergensis, and probably dating from the Middle Palaeolithic period some 500 000 years ago; remains were found at Boxgrove in West Sussex in 1993 and 1995
- brachygraphy — shorthand; stenography
- 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.