13-letter words containing i, g, n, t, b
- blinkenlights — /blink'*n-li:tz/ Front-panel diagnostic lights on a computer, especially a dinosaur. Derives from the last word of the famous blackletter-Gothic sign in mangled pseudo-German that once graced about half the computer rooms in the English-speaking world. One version ran in its entirety as follows: In an amusing example of turnabout-is-fair-play, German hackers have developed their own versions of the blinkenlights poster in fractured English, one of which is reproduced here: ATTENTION This room is fullfilled mit special electronische equippment. Fingergrabbing and pressing the cnoeppkes from the computers is allowed for die experts only! So all the "lefthanders" stay away and do not disturben the brainstorming von here working intelligencies. Otherwise you will be out thrown and kicked anderswhere! Also: please keep still and only watchen astaunished the blinkenlights. See also geef.
- blood-letting — Blood-letting is violence or killing between groups of people, especially between rival armies.
- board meeting — a meeting of the board of a company or other organization
- body stocking — A body stocking is a piece of clothing that covers the whole of someone's body and fits tightly. Body stockings are often worn by dancers.
- boiling point — The boiling point of a liquid is the temperature at which it starts to change into steam or vapour. For example, the boiling point of water is 100° centigrade.
- bolting cloth — a sturdy fabric, usually of fine silk or nylon mesh, used chiefly in serigraphy, embroidery, and as a foundation fabric for wigs.
- bonfire night — Bonfire Night is the popular name for Guy Fawkes Night.
- booking agent — an agent who makes bookings, as reservations for travel or the theater or engagements for performers, for clients.
- bottlenecking — a narrow entrance or passageway.
- bottomfishing — to fish with a weighted line for fish that feed close to the bottom.
- bouquet garni — A bouquet garni is a bunch of herbs that are tied together and used in cooking to add flavour to the food.
- bowling match — a game of bowls
- brainstorming — intensive discussion to solve problems or generate ideas
- brazing metal — a nonferrous metal, as copper, zinc, or nickel, or an alloy, as hard solder, used for brazing together pieces of metal.
- breathe again — to feel relief
- 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.
- brief against — If someone, especially a politician, briefs against another person, he or she tries to harm the other person's reputation by saying something unfavourable about them.
- bring home to — to convince of
- bring to bear — to bring into operation or effect
- bring to book — to reprimand or require (someone) to give an explanation of his conduct
- bring to life — to bring back to consciousness
- bring to mind — recall
- bring to pass — to cause to happen
- buggin's turn — promotion by seniority or rotation rather than merit.
- buggins' turn — the principle of awarding an appointment to members of a group in turn, rather than according to merit
- 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.
- bulk settling — Bulk settling is a process in which two liquids, or a solid and a liquid, of different densities are allowed to separate by gravity.
- bus mastering — bus master
- butterfingers — a person who drops things inadvertently or fails to catch things
- cabinetmaking — the manufacture of fine furniture and other woodwork.
- 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.
- carpetbagging — relating to carpetbaggers or to the practice of carpetbaggers
- changeability — liable to change or to be changed; variable.
- clearing bath — any solution for removing material from the surface of a photographic image, as silver halide, metallic silver, or a dye or stain.
- cloth binding — a type of binding in which a book is bound in stiff boards covered with cloth
- cobelligerent — a country fighting in a war on the side of another country
- collaborating — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
- confabulating — Present participle of confabulate.
- corroborating — Present participle of corroborate.
- counterboring — a tool for enlarging a drilled hole for a portion of its length, as to permit sinking a screw head.
- cutting board — A cutting board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
- cyberstalking — Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet to contact someone or find out information about them in a way that is annoying or frightening.
- decarbonating — Present participle of decarbonate.
- decerebrating — Present participle of decerebrate.
- demothballing — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.
- desobligeante — a type of carriage seating only one person
- destabilising — Present participle of destabilise.
- destabilizing — Present participle of destabilize.
- detribalizing — Present participle of detribalize.