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12-letter words containing o, l, e, a, g

  • autogenously — In an autogenous manner; spontaneously.
  • bacteriology — Bacteriology is the science and the study of bacteria.
  • balladmonger — (formerly) a seller of ballads, esp on broadsheets
  • barcalounger — a type of reclinable armchair with an extendable footrest
  • barge couple — either of a pair of outside rafters along the gable end of a roof
  • 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.
  • battle group — a group of warships usually consisting of at least one aircraft carrier, other surface ships, submarines, landing craft, etc
  • battle wagon — a battleship.
  • battleground — A battleground is the same as a battlefield.
  • battlewagons — Plural form of battlewagon.
  • beacon light — a light signal for shipping
  • bead molding — bead (def 12).
  • benzal group — the bivalent group C 7 H 6 –, derived from benzaldehyde.
  • bingo caller — the person who shouts out the numbers to bingo players
  • black grouse — a large N European grouse, Lyrurus tetrix, the male of which has a bluish-black plumage and lyre-shaped tail
  • black tongue — canine pellagra.
  • blaze orange — a very bright orange, as on a traffic cone.
  • blood orange — a variety of orange all or part of the pulp of which is dark red when ripe
  • bloomingdale — a town in NE Illinois.
  • boating lake — a lake in a park where rowing boats can be hired
  • bog asphodel — either of two liliaceous plants, Narthecium ossifragum of Europe or N. americanum of North America, that grow in boggy places and have small yellow flowers and grasslike leaves
  • bog of allen — a region of peat bogs in central Ireland, west of Dublin. Area: over 10 sq km (3.75 sq miles)
  • boghead coal — compact bituminous coal that burns brightly and yields large quantities of tar and oil upon distillation.
  • boilermaking — metal-working in heavy industry; plating or welding
  • bombe glacée — a dessert of ice cream lined or filled with custard, cake crumbs, etc
  • bonnet glass — monteith (def 2).
  • bonnet-glass — a large punch bowl, usually of silver, having a notched rim for suspending punch cups.
  • 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.
  • bootleg play — a play in which the quarterback pretends to hand the ball to a teammate, hides it by placing it next to his hip, and runs with it.
  • bottle glass — glass used for making bottles, consisting of a silicate of sodium, calcium, and aluminium
  • bougainville — an island in the W Pacific, in Papua New Guinea: the largest of the Solomon Islands: unilaterally declared independence in 1990; occupied by government troops in 1992, and granted autonomy in 2001. Chief town: Kieta. Area: 10 049 sq km (3880 sq miles)
  • boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
  • breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
  • cabriole leg — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
  • cape delgado — a headland on the NE coast of Mozambique
  • cape ortegal — a cape in NW Spain, projecting into the Bay of Biscay
  • cardiomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
  • cardioplegia — deliberate arrest of the action of the heart, as by hypothermia or the injection of chemicals, to enable complex heart surgery to be carried out
  • catalog code — the principles, rules, and regulations for entering and describing books or other library material in a catalog.
  • categorially — in a manner relating to or involving categories
  • cathode glow — a luminous region between the Aston dark space and the Crookes dark space in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
  • chalcogenide — a binary compound consisting of a chalcogen and at least one other electropositive element
  • change color — to become pale
  • charlesbourg — city in S Quebec, Canada: pop. 71,000
  • cigar flower — the common name for a small, shrubby plant, Cuphea ignea, of the loosestrife family, native to Mexico and Jamaica, grown as an ornamental and houseplant: named for its red tubular flowers that resemble cigars.
  • cigar holder — a mouthpiece of wood, ivory, etc, used for holding a cigar while it is smoked
  • cladogenesis — adaptive evolution leading to a greater variety of species
  • cladogenetic — relating to cladogenesis
  • cleistogamic — Alternative form of cleistogamous.
  • closegrained — having a fine, compact grain or texture
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