12-letter words containing o, r, g, a
- bring action — to start a lawsuit
- bring around — If you bring someone around when they are unconscious, you make them become conscious again.
- bring to bay — to force into a position from which retreat is impossible
- broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
- brooks range — a mountain range in N Alaska. Highest peak: Mount Isto, 2761 m (9058 ft)
- brown bag it — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
- brown bagger — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
- bugger about — If someone buggers about or buggers around, they waste time doing unnecessary things.
- bur marigold — any plant of the genus Bidens that has yellow flowers and pointed fruits that cling to fur and clothing: family Asteraceae (composites)
- burglarproof — safeguarded or secure against burglary.
- burnt orange — of a dark orange colour, sometimes due to calcination of orange pigment
- cabbage rose — a rose, Rosa centifolia, with a round compact full-petalled head
- 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
- camphorating — Present participle of camphorate.
- campo grande — a city in SW Brazil, capital of Mato Grosso do Sul state on the São Paulo–Corumbá railway: market centre. Pop: 746 000 (2005 est)
- canyoneering — (US) Canyoning, a hybrid outdoor sport involving the traversal of river canyons.
- caparisoning — Present participle of caparison.
- cape ortegal — a cape in NW Spain, projecting into the Bay of Biscay
- carbonadoing — Present participle of carbonado.
- carcinogenic — A substance that is carcinogenic is likely to cause cancer.
- card catalog — a file of cards of uniform size arranged in some definite order and listing the items in the collection of a library or group of libraries, each card typically identifying a single item.
- cardiographs — Plural form of cardiograph.
- cardiography — electrocardiograph.
- cardiologist — A cardiologist is a doctor who specializes in the heart and its diseases.
- 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
- cargo pocket — a large patch pocket, usually pleated at the sides and often having a flap.
- carlovingian — Carolingian
- carpetmonger — a person who frequently visits women's boudoirs
- carpophagous — feeding on fruit
- carriage dog — Dalmatian (sense 4)
- carry-on bag — a small bag that is taken inside an aircraft by hand personally by a passenger
- carryings-on — wild, extravagant, or immoral behavior
- cartographer — A cartographer is a person whose job is drawing maps.
- cartographic — Of or pertaining to the making of maps.
- cartological — relating to cartology
- carving fork — a large, two-tined fork with a metal guard to protect the hand, used to hold meat in place as it is being carved
- castor sugar — finely ground or powdered sugar.
- categorially — in a manner relating to or involving categories
- categoricity — The quality of being categorical.
- categorising — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- categorizing — Present participle of categorize.
- cathodograph — a picture taken using cathode rays
- caught short — having a sudden need to urinate or defecate
- centimorgans — Plural form of centimorgan.
- ceramography — the study, analysis, and preparation of ceramic microstructures, usually for industrial use
- chalcography — the art of engraving on copper or brass
- change color — to become pale
- change front — to redeploy (a force in the field) so that its main weight of weapons points in another direction
- change round — to place in or adopt a different or opposite position