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12-letter words containing g

  • block signal — a fixed railroad signal governing the movements of trains entering and using a given section of track.
  • block voting — voting using block votes
  • blockbusting — A blockbusting film or book is one that is very successful, usually because it is very exciting.
  • blood doping — the illegal practice of removing a quantity of blood from an athlete long before a race and reinjecting it shortly before a race, so boosting oxygenation of the blood
  • blood orange — a variety of orange all or part of the pulp of which is dark red when ripe
  • blood typing — the classification of human blood cells to determine compatible blood types as for transfusion or organ transplant
  • bloodletting — Bloodletting is violence or killing between groups of people, especially between rival armies.
  • bloodsucking — any animal that sucks blood, especially a leech.
  • blooming oil — an oil used as a lubricant in fine sandpapering.
  • bloomingdale — a town in NE Illinois.
  • blotting-pad — an object to one side of which a piece of blotting paper is attached for blotting text handwritten in ink
  • blow molding — Blow molding is a process for forming plastic objects in which plastic is melted, put in a mold, and then shaped by having compressed air blown into it.
  • blow through — to leave; make off
  • blow-molding — the sound of any vapor or gas issuing from a vent under pressure.
  • blue dogwood — a shrub or small tree, Cornus alternifolia, of eastern North America, having clusters of white flowers and bluish fruit.
  • blue springs — a town in W Missouri.
  • blue whiting — a fish of the cod family, Micromesistius poutassou
  • blue-singlet — working-class
  • 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
  • bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
  • 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
  • boatbuilding — Boatbuilding is the craft or industry of making boats.
  • boating lake — a lake in a park where rowing boats can be hired
  • boating trip — a trip or holiday in a boat such as a sailing boat or canal boat
  • body english — a follow-through motion of the body, as after bowling a ball, in a semi-involuntary or joking effort to control the ball's movement
  • body popping — a dance style involving muscular jerking of the upper body
  • bodyboarding — the sport of surfing using a bodyboard
  • bodybuilding — Bodybuilding is the activity of doing special exercises regularly in order to make your muscles grow bigger.
  • bog asphodel — either of two liliaceous plants, Narthecium ossifragum of Europe or N. americanum of North America, that grow in boggy places and have small yellow flowers and grasslike leaves
  • bog of allen — a region of peat bogs in central Ireland, west of Dublin. Area: over 10 sq km (3.75 sq miles)
  • 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.
  • boghead coal — compact bituminous coal that burns brightly and yields large quantities of tar and oil upon distillation.
  • 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.
  • bombe glacée — a dessert of ice cream lined or filled with custard, cake crumbs, etc
  • bond washing — a series of deals in bonds made with the intention of avoiding taxation
  • bonded goods — goods which have been deposited in a bonded warehouse
  • bonding wire — A bonding wire is a wire connecting two pieces of equipment, often for hazard prevention.
  • boning knife — a small kitchen knife having a narrow blade for boning meat or fish.
  • bonnet glass — monteith (def 2).
  • bonnet rouge — a red cap worn by ardent supporters of the French Revolution
  • bonnet-glass — a large punch bowl, usually of silver, having a notched rim for suspending punch cups.
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