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12-letter words containing l, a, g, r, n

  • bargain sale — an event at which goods are sold at low prices, usually to clear old stocks
  • barrel organ — A barrel organ is a large machine that plays music when you turn the handle on the side. Barrel organs used to be played in the street to entertain people.
  • battleground — A battleground is the same as a battlefield.
  • bearing pile — a foundation pile that supports weight vertically
  • bearing rail — a transverse rail carrying a drawer or drawers.
  • bearing wall — any of the walls supporting a floor or the roof of a building.
  • beleaguering — to surround with military forces.
  • belgian hare — a large red breed of domestic rabbit
  • bell gardens — a town in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • bengal tiger — a large tiger found in S. Asia
  • benzal group — the bivalent group C 7 H 6 –, derived from benzaldehyde.
  • bible banger — Bible-thumper.
  • bible-banger — Bible-thumper.
  • bingo caller — the person who shouts out the numbers to bingo players
  • blackbirding — a common European thrush, Turdus merula, the male of which is black with a yellow bill.
  • blaze orange — a very bright orange, as on a traffic cone.
  • blazing star — a North American liliaceous plant, Chamaelirium luteum, with a long spike of small white flowers
  • blood orange — a variety of orange all or part of the pulp of which is dark red when ripe
  • bluesnarfing — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to steal contact details, ring tones, images, etc from another
  • boardsailing — windsurfing
  • boilermaking — metal-working in heavy industry; plating or welding
  • boolean ring — a nonempty collection of sets having the properties that the union of two sets of the collection is a set in the collection and that the relative complement of each set with respect to any other set is in the collection.
  • born-digital — relating to or noting documents, images, etc., that are created and managed in electronic form: electronic preservation of born-digital content; a born-digital e-book that will not be available in print.
  • boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
  • brake lining — a curved thin strip of an asbestos composition riveted to a brake shoe to provide it with a renewable surface
  • by and large — You use by and large to indicate that a statement is mostly but not completely true.
  • calling card — A calling card is a small card with personal information about you on it, such as your name and address, which you can give to people when you go to visit them.
  • caramelizing — Present participle of caramelize.
  • carlovingian — Carolingian
  • cartwheeling — Present participle of cartwheel.
  • caster angle — the forward or backward tilt of the steering axis in a vehicle, when considered from the side
  • caterwauling — the shrieking and yowling made by a cat, for example when it is on heat or fighting
  • centralising — Present participle of centralise.
  • centralizing — Present participle of centralize.
  • change color — to become pale
  • charbroiling — Present participle of charbroil.
  • cheerleading — the action or skill of a cheerleader.
  • childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
  • childrearing — the raising and parenting of children: Childrearing extends beyond simple guardianship to nurturing and guidance.
  • chlorinating — Present participle of chlorinate.
  • clangorously — In a clangorous manner; ringingly.
  • clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
  • clatteringly — With a clattering sound.
  • clean energy — energy, as electricity or nuclear power, that does not pollute the atmosphere when used, as opposed to coal and oil, that do.
  • clearcutting — the act of felling all trees in area
  • cliff-hanger — a melodramatic or adventure serial in which each installment ends in suspense in order to interest the reader or viewer in the next installment.
  • cliffhangers — Plural form of cliffhanger.
  • closegrained — having a fine, compact grain or texture
  • coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
  • cobalt green — a medium, yellowish-green color.
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