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13-letter words containing n, b, g

  • bone-chilling — extremely cold
  • bone-crushing — powerful or constricting enough to crush one's bones: a bone-crushing handshake.
  • bonfire night — Bonfire Night is the popular name for Guy Fawkes Night.
  • book learning — knowledge gained from books rather than from direct personal experience
  • book-learning — knowledge acquired by reading books, as distinguished from that obtained through observation and experience.
  • booking agent — an agent who makes bookings, as reservations for travel or the theater or engagements for performers, for clients.
  • booking clerk — A booking clerk is a person who sells tickets, especially in a railway station.
  • boolean logic — (logic)   A logic based on Boolean algebra.
  • boomerang kid — a young adult who, after having lived on his or her own for a time, returns to live in the parental home, usually due to financial problems caused by unemployment or the high cost of living independently
  • 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
  • bottlenecking — a narrow entrance or passageway.
  • bottomfishing — to fish with a weighted line for fish that feed close to the bottom.
  • boudoir grand — a domestic grand piano between 5 and 6 feet in length
  • bougainvillea — Bougainvillea is a climbing plant that has thin, red or purple flowers and grows mainly in hot countries.
  • bouncing bomb — a bomb used by the RAF in World War II, designed to bounce along water
  • bouquet garni — A bouquet garni is a bunch of herbs that are tied together and used in cooking to add flavour to the food.
  • bourdon gauge — a type of aneroid pressure gauge consisting of a flattened curved tube attached to a pointer that moves around a dial. As the pressure in the tube increases the tube tends to straighten and the pointer indicates the applied pressure
  • bourguignonne — Burgundy (def 5).
  • bowling alley — A bowling alley is a building which contains several tracks for bowling.
  • bowling green — A bowling green is an area of very smooth, short grass on which the game of bowls or lawn bowling is played.
  • bowling match — a game of bowls
  • bowling-green — a game played with wooden balls on a level, closely mowed green having a slight bias, the object being to roll one's ball as near as possible to a smaller white ball at the other end of the green. Also called bowls, bowling on the green. Compare bowl2 (def 2), bowling green, jack1 (def 7), rink (def 5).
  • brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
  • brain surgeon — a surgeon who specializes in brain surgery
  • brain surgery — operation on the brain
  • brain-damaged — Someone who is brain-damaged has suffered brain damage.
  • brain-picking — the act of obtaining information or ideas by questioning another person.
  • brainstorming — intensive discussion to solve problems or generate ideas
  • braking power — the ability of a braking system to cause a vehicle to come to a halt
  • brand manager — the person responsible for the marketing of a particular brand
  • branded goods — goods that are identifiable as being the product of a particular manufacturer or marketing company
  • branding iron — a long-handled metal rod with a stamp at one end, used for branding livestock, especially cattle, with a registered or recognized symbol or character to indicate ownership.
  • branding-iron — an iron heated and used for branding animals, etc
  • 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
  • brazing alloy — a solder fusing at temperatures above 1200°F (650°C).
  • brazing metal — a nonferrous metal, as copper, zinc, or nickel, or an alloy, as hard solder, used for brazing together pieces of metal.
  • bread pudding — a rich cake made with bread soaked in milk, eggs, dried fruit and spices and baked, usually eaten cold
  • 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
  • breaking ball — any pitch that breaks; specif., a curve or slider
  • breaking news — news of events that have taken place very recently or are in the process of taking place
  • breathe again — to feel relief
  • breechloading — loaded at the breech.
  • breeding pair — a male and female animal that produce offspring together
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