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13-letter words containing i, d, g

  • bread-winning — a person who earns a livelihood, especially one who also supports dependents.
  • break dancing — a style of dance engaged in by youths, involving acrobatic movements, spinning about on the head or shoulders, etc.
  • break feeding — the feeding of animals on paddocks where feeding space is controlled by the frequent movement of an electric fence
  • breechloading — loaded at the breech.
  • breeding pair — a male and female animal that produce offspring together
  • bridge player — a person who plays the game of bridge
  • bridging loan — A bridging loan is money that a bank lends you for a short time, for example so that you can buy a new house before you have sold the one you already own.
  • bridging shot — a shot inserted in a film to indicate the passage of time between two scenes, as of a series of newspaper headlines or calendar pages being torn off.
  • bring forward — If you bring forward a meeting or event, you arrange for it to take place at an earlier date or time than had been planned.
  • bring to mind — recall
  • brownie guide — a member of the Brownie Guides, one of the junior branches (aged 7–10 years) in The Guide Association
  • buck and wing — a boisterous tap dance, derived from Black and Irish clog dances
  • budget period — the time which a budget covers
  • build bridges — to promote reconciliation or cooperation between hostile groups or people
  • building land — land on which construction can take place
  • building line — the boundary line along a street beyond which buildings must not project
  • building plot — a piece of land on which a house can be built
  • building site — A building site is an area of land on which a building or a group of buildings is in the process of being built or altered.
  • burial ground — A burial ground is a place where bodies are buried, especially an ancient place.
  • cabbage aphid — a small, blue aphid, Brevicoryne brassicae, that feeds on cabbage and related plants.
  • cable molding — a molding in the form of a rope.
  • cadmium green — a pigment used in painting, consisting of a mixture of hydrated oxide of chromium with cadmium sulfide, and characterized by its strong green color and slow drying rate.
  • camp-drafting — a competitive test, esp at an agricultural show, of horsemen's skill in drafting cattle
  • campaign fund — money for a campaign, as of a political candidate, usually acquired through contributions by supporters.
  • candlelighter — a person whose task it is to light candles
  • candlewicking — a kind of embroidery used for a bedspread, tablecloth, or pillow cover, patterned with French knots of candlewick embroidery thread or yarn
  • cape marigold — any composite plant of the genus Dimorphotheca, having variously colored, daisylike flowers.
  • capital goods — Capital goods are used to make other products. Compare consumer goods.
  • 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.
  • card clothing — a very sturdy fabric with a leather or rubber fillet imbedded with wire teeth for disentangling and cleaning textile fibers, used to cover the rollers or flats of a carding machine.
  • card-carrying — A card-carrying member of a particular group or political party is an official member of that group or party, rather than someone who supports it.
  • cardiganshire — a former county of W Wales: became part of Dyfed in 1974; reinstated as Ceredigion in 1996
  • cardinal sign — any of the four astrological signs, Aries, Cancer, Libra, or Capricorn, that begin at the equinoxes and solstices, thus marking the beginning of the seasons: characterized by the attribute of strong initiative.
  • cardiographic — (physiology) Of or pertaining to, or produced by, a cardiograph.
  • cardiological — the study of the heart and its functions in health and disease.
  • cardiologists — Plural form of cardiologist.
  • cardiomegalia — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
  • cartridge pen — a pen having a removable ink reservoir that is replaced when empty
  • casehardening — Present participle of caseharden.
  • cash dealings — transactions that are carried out using cash
  • cash holdings — the assets that you hold in ready cash, as opposed to property, shares, bonds, etc
  • cedar waxwing — a brownish-gray, crested American waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum), with red, waxlike tips on its secondary wing feathers
  • chicago ridge — a town in NE Illinois.
  • child prodigy — A child prodigy is a child with a very great talent.
  • child rearing — the activity of rearing children
  • child-bearing — the act or process of carrying and giving birth to a child
  • chronologized — to arrange in chronological order.
  • churn molding — a molding decorated with chevrons.
  • cider vinegar — a type of vinegar produced by the acetification of cider
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