13-letter words containing n, i, g, e, r
- 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 clerk — A booking clerk is a person who sells tickets, especially in a railway station.
- 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
- bouquet garni — A bouquet garni is a bunch of herbs that are tied together and used in cooking to add flavour to the food.
- bourguignonne — Burgundy (def 5).
- 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-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.
- braking power — the ability of a braking system to cause a vehicle to come to a halt
- 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
- 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 life — to bring back to consciousness
- brownie guide — a member of the Brownie Guides, one of the junior branches (aged 7–10 years) in The Guide Association
- buccaneerings — the characteristic actions of a buccaneer
- bus mastering — bus master
- butterfingers — a person who drops things inadvertently or fails to catch things
- cadmium green — a pigment used in painting, consisting of a mixture of hydrated oxide of chromium with cadmium sulfide, and characterized by its strong green color and slow drying rate.
- candlelighter — a person whose task it is to light candles
- cantilevering — Present participle of cantilever.
- canton ginger — preserved or crystallized ginger of fine quality.
- cardiganshire — a former county of W Wales: became part of Dyfed in 1974; reinstated as Ceredigion in 1996
- cariogenicity — conducive to the production or promotion of dental caries: the cariogenic factors in sweets.
- carnegie hall — a famous concert hall in New York (opened 1891); endowed by Andrew Carnegie
- 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
- cartridge pen — a pen having a removable ink reservoir that is replaced when empty
- carving knife — A carving knife is a long sharp knife that is used to cut cooked meat.
- casehardening — Present participle of caseharden.
- casing hanger — A casing hanger is the part of a wellhead that supports the casing string.
- catheterizing — Present participle of catheterize.