13-letter words containing n, o, b, i, g
- 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
- brown bagging — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
- brown-bagging — the practice of eating one's lunch or drinking a bottle of alcohol from a brown bag
- brownie guide — a member of the Brownie Guides, one of the junior branches (aged 7–10 years) in The Guide Association
- buffalo wings — spicy fried segments of chicken wings, usually served with celery sticks and a sauce of blue cheese
- building plot — a piece of land on which a house can be built
- burial ground — A burial ground is a place where bodies are buried, especially an ancient place.
- burrowing owl — a ground owl (Athene cunicularia) of the prairie regions of North and South America having long legs and a small head: it makes its nest in abandoned burrows
- cable molding — a molding in the form of a rope.
- cannonballing — Present participle of cannonball.
- carbo-loading — Informal. carbohydrate loading.
- 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.
- chronobiology — the branch of biology concerned with the periodicity occurring in living organisms
- climbing iron — either of a pair of metal frames with spikes that may be strapped over footgear, on the inside of the leg to aid in climbing trees, public utility poles, etc.
- climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
- cloth binding — a type of binding in which a book is bound in stiff boards covered with cloth
- coachbuilding — the manufacture of bodies for cars, buses, and coaches
- cobelligerent — a country fighting in a war on the side of another country
- cobol fingers — (jargon) /koh'bol fing'grz/ Reported from Sweden, a hypothetical disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see candygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
- collaborating — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
- coloring book — A coloring book is a book of simple drawings which children can color in.
- confabulating — Present participle of confabulate.
- cooling board — a plank for laying out a corpse.
- corroborating — Present participle of corroborate.
- counterboring — a tool for enlarging a drilled hole for a portion of its length, as to permit sinking a screw head.
- cover bidding — the act of tendering an artificially high price for a contract, on the assumption that the tender will not be accepted
- cross bedding — layering within one or more beds in a series of rock strata that does not run parallel to the plane of stratification
- crossbreeding — Present participle of crossbreed.
- cutting board — A cutting board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
- cybershopping — Shopping by means of computers or the Internet.
- decarbonating — Present participle of decarbonate.
- decarbonizing — Present participle of decarbonize.
- demothballing — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.
- desobligeante — a type of carriage seating only one person
- disemboweling — Present participle of disembowel.
- disobligation — the state of being without obligation
- disobligement — disobligation
- disobligingly — So as to disoblige.
- double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
- drawing board — a rectangular board on which paper is placed or mounted for drawing or drafting.
- eco-labelling — the practice or system of using eco-labels
- edward gibbon — Edward, 1737–94, English historian.
- embryogenetic — embryogenic
- erin go bragh — Ireland forever
- floating debt — short-term government borrowing, esp by the issue of three-month Treasury bills
- floating ribs — the eleventh and twelfth pairs of ribs, not attached to the breastbone or to other ribs but only to the vertebrae
- flooring brad — a brad having a very small head, made in lengths from 2 to 4 inches (5 to 10 cm).