12-letter words containing h, g, e
- bank charges — penalties charged by a bank to a customer, for example when the customer's account is overdrawn or if a cheque is not honoured
- bantamweight — A bantamweight is a boxer who weighs between 51 and 53.5 kilograms, or a wrestler who weighs between 52 and 57 kilograms. A bantamweight is heavier than a flyweight but lighter than a featherweight.
- basic weight — basis weight.
- basis weight — the weight in pounds of a ream of paper of a basic size, usually 25 × 38 inches (63 × 96 cm) for book stock, 17 × 22 inches (43 × 55 cm) for writing stock, and 20 × 26 inches (50 × 66 cm) for cover stock.
- bathypelagic — of, relating to, or inhabiting the lower depths of the ocean between approximately 1000 and 4000 metres
- baton charge — A baton charge is an attacking forward movement made by a large group of policemen carrying batons.
- be one thing — You can say that the first of two ideas, actions, or situations is one thing when you want to contrast it with a second idea, action, or situation and emphasize that the second one is much more difficult, important, or extreme.
- beachcombing — The action of a beachcomber.
- beacon light — a light signal for shipping
- belgian hare — a large red breed of domestic rabbit
- bell housing — A bell housing is a bell-shaped extension of an engine crankcase, that contains the flywheel and the clutch.
- belly-aching — Informal. a pain in the abdomen or bowels.
- belt highway — beltway (def 1).
- benchmarking — In business, benchmarking is a process in which a company compares its products and methods with those of the most successful companies in its field, in order to try to improve its own performance.
- bengal light — a firework or flare that burns with a steady bright blue light, formerly used as a signal
- berlichingen — Götz von (ɡœts fɔn), called the Iron Hand. 1480–1562, German warrior knight, who robbed merchants and kidnapped nobles for ransom
- bermuda high — a subtropical high centered near Bermuda.
- beseechingly — to implore urgently: They besought him to go at once.
- betting shop — A betting shop is a place where people can go to bet on something such as a horse race.
- big lie, the — a gross falsification or misrepresentation of the facts, with constant repetition and embellishment to lend credibility
- biogeography — the branch of biology concerned with the geographical distribution of plants and animals
- birth weight — the amount a baby weighs when first born
- blue whiting — a fish of the cod family, Micromesistius poutassou
- 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
- 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
- boghead coal — compact bituminous coal that burns brightly and yields large quantities of tar and oil upon distillation.
- border light — a striplight hung upstage of a border, for lighting the stage.
- bounce light — Also, bounce lighting. light that is bounced off a reflective surface onto the subject in order to achieve a softer lighting effect.
- bound charge — any electric charge that is bound to an atom or molecule (opposed to free charge).
- braunschweig — Brunswick
- breakthrough — A breakthrough is an important development or achievement.
- breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
- breath group — a sequence of sounds articulated in the course of a single exhalation; an utterance or part of an utterance produced between pauses for breath.
- breathtaking — If you say that something is breathtaking, you are emphasizing that it is extremely beautiful or amazing.
- 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.
- bright-field — of or relating to the illuminated region about the object of a microscope.
- bronchogenic — bronchial in origin
- bush leaguer — Also called busher. Baseball. a player in a minor league. an incompetent player, as one who behaves or plays as if he or she belonged in a minor league.
- bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
- bush-leaguer — (in baseball) someone who plays in a minor league
- cabbage moth — a common brownish noctuid moth, Mamestra brassicae, the larva of which is destructive of cabbages and other plants
- cable length — a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
- calligraphed — Simple past tense and past participle of calligraph.
- calligrapher — A calligrapher is a person skilled in the art of calligraphy.
- campshedding — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
- cape agulhas — a headland in South Africa, the southernmost point of the African continent
- carry weight — to be important, influential, etc.
- cartographer — A cartographer is a person whose job is drawing maps.