13-letter words containing i, g, n, t
- 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.
- cage fighting — Cage fighting is a type of organized violent fighting that takes place in an enclosed space.
- calculatingly — In a calculating manner.
- camp-drafting — a competitive test, esp at an agricultural show, of horsemen's skill in drafting cattle
- campanologist — the principles or art of making bells, bell ringing, etc.
- camping stool — a stool which is suitable for use in temporary quarters, on holiday, etc, esp by being portable and easy to set up
- camping stove — a portable stove powered by butane gas canisters, designed to be used for cooking while camping
- candlelighter — a person whose task it is to light candles
- cantilevering — Present participle of cantilever.
- canton ginger — preserved or crystallized ginger of fine quality.
- capital gains — Capital gains are the profits that you make when you buy something and then sell it again at a higher price.
- captivatingly — to attract and hold the attention or interest of, as by beauty or excellence; enchant: Her blue eyes and red hair captivated him.
- 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.
- carcinologist — a person who specializes in carcinology
- 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.
- cariogenicity — conducive to the production or promotion of dental caries: the cariogenic factors in sweets.
- carnegie unit — a standardized unit of measurement for evaluating courses in secondary schools in terms of college entrance requirements, representing one year's study in any subject, that subject having been taught for a minimum of 120 classroom hours to qualify.
- carnot engine — an engine using a Carnot cycle of operations.
- carpet knight — a soldier who spends his life away from battle; idler
- carpetbagging — relating to carpetbaggers or to the practice of carpetbaggers
- cartilaginous — of or like cartilage; gristly
- cartiliginous — Alternative form of cartilaginous.