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13-letter words containing g, r, e, n, a, o

  • boardinghouse — a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests
  • bohr magneton — a unit that is used to indicate the magnetic moment of the electron structure in an atom, equal to 9.27 × 10 −21 erg/gauss.
  • boiling range — A boiling range is the temperature range involved in the distillation of oil, from the start to the time when it evaporates.
  • book learning — knowledge gained from books rather than from direct personal experience
  • book-learning — knowledge acquired by reading books, as distinguished from that obtained through observation and experience.
  • boomerang kid — a young adult who, after having lived on his or her own for a time, returns to live in the parental home, usually due to financial problems caused by unemployment or the high cost of living independently
  • boraginaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Boraginaceae, a family of temperate and tropical typically hairy-leaved flowering plants that includes forget-me-not, lungwort, borage, comfrey, and heliotrope
  • bouquet garni — A bouquet garni is a bunch of herbs that are tied together and used in cooking to add flavour to the food.
  • bourdon gauge — a type of aneroid pressure gauge consisting of a flattened curved tube attached to a pointer that moves around a dial. As the pressure in the tube increases the tube tends to straighten and the pointer indicates the applied pressure
  • brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
  • brain surgeon — a surgeon who specializes in brain surgery
  • braking power — the ability of a braking system to cause a vehicle to come to a halt
  • branded goods — goods that are identifiable as being the product of a particular manufacturer or marketing company
  • breechloading — loaded at the breech.
  • bring to bear — to bring into operation or effect
  • canon regular — a clergyman of certain religious communities following a monastic rule
  • canton ginger — preserved or crystallized ginger of fine quality.
  • cariogenicity — conducive to the production or promotion of dental caries: the cariogenic factors in sweets.
  • carnot engine — an engine using a Carnot cycle of operations.
  • chamber organ — a small compact organ used esp for the authentic performance of preclassical music
  • chandernagore — a port in E India, in S West Bengal on the Hooghly River: a former French settlement (1686–1950). Pop: 162 166 (2001)
  • cinema goers' — filmgoer.
  • cinematograph — a combined camera, printer, and projector
  • clear-coating — an automotive painting technique in which a coating of clear lacquer or other synthetic liquid is applied over the base color to enhance the shine and durability of the paint.
  • clearing loan — a bank loan to finance the purchase of securities which is repayable within the calendar day on which it is made.
  • clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
  • coarsegrained — having a coarse texture
  • cocarcinogens — Plural form of cocarcinogen.
  • cointegration — (mathematics) The condition of two non-stationary time series whose linear combination is stationary.
  • commandeering — Present participle of commandeer.
  • commemorating — Present participle of commemorate.
  • commiserating — to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity.
  • company grade — military rank applying to army officers below major, as second and first lieutenants and captains.
  • concentrating — Present participle of concentrate.
  • concert grand — a full-size grand piano, usually around 7 feet in length
  • concertinaing — Present participle of concertina.
  • concord grape — a variety of grape with purple-black fruit covered with a bluish bloom
  • confederating — Present participle of confederate.
  • configurative — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
  • conflagrative — That produces conflagration.
  • congeneration — Simultaneous generation (as of heat and light from the same action).
  • conglomerated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglomerate.
  • conglomerates — anything composed of heterogeneous materials or elements.
  • conglomeratic — of or relating to a conglomerate
  • conglomerator — a conglomerateur
  • congratulable — worthy of congratulation
  • congratulated — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
  • congratulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of congratulate.
  • congregations — Plural form of congregation.
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