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13-letter words containing i, n, s, g

  • body shopping — the purchasing of manpower from another country, usually one where wages are cheap
  • 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.
  • bone-crushing — powerful or constricting enough to crush one's bones: a bone-crushing handshake.
  • boraginaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Boraginaceae, a family of temperate and tropical typically hairy-leaved flowering plants that includes forget-me-not, lungwort, borage, comfrey, and heliotrope
  • boring sponge — any of a family (Clionidae) of sponges that settle on and dissolve the shells of clams
  • boris godunov — Boris Fedorovich [bawr-is fi-dawr-uh-vich,, bohr-,, bor-;; Russian buh-ryees fyaw-duh-ruh-vyich] /ˈbɔr ɪs fɪˈdɔr ə vɪtʃ,, ˈboʊr-,, ˈbɒr-;; Russian bʌˈryis ˈfyɔ də rə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1552–1605, regent of Russia 1584–98 and czar 1598–1605.
  • bosman ruling — an EU ruling that allows out-of-contract footballers to leave their clubs without the clubs receiving a transfer fee
  • bottomfishing — to fish with a weighted line for fish that feed close to the bottom.
  • brain surgeon — a surgeon who specializes in brain surgery
  • brain surgery — operation on the brain
  • brainstorming — intensive discussion to solve problems or generate ideas
  • brass rubbing — A brass rubbing is a picture made by placing a piece of paper over a brass plate that has writing or a picture on it, and rubbing it with a wax crayon.
  • brass-rubbing — an antiquarian's technique for copying designs from incised brass memorial slabs and the like.
  • brassfounding — the practice of making things from brass
  • breaking news — news of events that have taken place very recently or are in the process of taking place
  • 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 to pass — to cause to happen
  • buccaneerings — the characteristic actions of a buccaneer
  • buffalo wings — spicy fried segments of chicken wings, usually served with celery sticks and a sauce of blue cheese
  • 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 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.
  • burning glass — a convex lens for concentrating the sun's rays into a small area to produce heat or fire
  • bus mastering — bus master
  • butterfingers — a person who drops things inadvertently or fails to catch things
  • bypass engine — a gas turbine in which a part of the compressor delivery bypasses the combustion zone, flowing directly into or around the main exhaust gas flow to provide additional thrust
  • 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
  • canning basin — an arid basin in NW Western Australia, largely unexplored. Area: 400 000 sq km (150 000 sq miles)
  • capital gains — Capital gains are the profits that you make when you buy something and then sell it again at a higher price.
  • carcinologist — a person who specializes in carcinology
  • 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.
  • cartilaginous — of or like cartilage; gristly
  • cartiliginous — Alternative form of cartilaginous.
  • 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
  • casing hanger — A casing hanger is the part of a wellhead that supports the casing string.
  • casing string — A casing string is a series of lengths of steel pipe which are fitted together and put into a well.
  • casting couch — a couch on which a casting director is said to seduce women seeking a part in a film or play
  • casting wheel — a wheel having on its circumference molds for receiving molten metal.
  • chaise longue — A chaise longue is a kind of sofa with only one arm and usually a back along half its length.
  • chaise lounge — A chaise lounge is the same as a chaise longue.
  • chang tso-lin — 1873–1928, Chinese general: military ruler of Manchuria 1918–28.
  • charing cross — a district of London, in the city of Westminster: the modern cross (1863) in front of Charing Cross railway station replaces the one erected by Edward I (1290), the last of twelve marking the route of the funeral procession of his queen, Eleanor
  • chewing louse — See under louse (def 2).
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