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12-letter words containing p, e, g, b

  • adverb group — An adverb group or adverbial group is a group of words based on an adverb, such as 'very slowly' or 'fortunately for us'. An adverb group can also consist simply of an adverb.
  • apple blight — an aphid, Eriosoma lanigera, that is covered with a powdery waxy secretion and infests apple trees
  • back passage — People sometimes refer to their rectum as their back passage.
  • backpedaling — to retard the forward motion by pressing backward on the pedal, especially of a bicycle with coaster brakes.
  • badger plane — a plane for finishing rabbets or the like.
  • barge couple — either of a pair of outside rafters along the gable end of a roof
  • base jumping — a sport in which a participant parachutes from any of a variety of fixed objects such as high buildings, cliffs, etc
  • base pairing — the hydrogen bonding that occurs between complementary nitrogenous bases in the two polynucleotide chains of a DNA molecule
  • base-pairing — the process of binding separate DNA sequences by base pairs.
  • bathypelagic — of, relating to, or inhabiting the lower depths of the ocean between approximately 1000 and 4000 metres
  • battle group — a group of warships usually consisting of at least one aircraft carrier, other surface ships, submarines, landing craft, etc
  • be expecting — to be pregnant
  • bearing pile — a foundation pile that supports weight vertically
  • belaying pin — a cylindrical, sometimes tapered pin, usually of metal or wood, that fits into a hole in a pin or fife rail: used for belaying
  • benzal group — the bivalent group C 7 H 6 –, derived from benzaldehyde.
  • benzyl group — the univalent group C 7 H 7 –, derived from toluene.
  • betting shop — A betting shop is a place where people can go to bet on something such as a horse race.
  • betting slip — a piece of paper used to place a bet
  • bibliopegist — a bookbinder
  • biogeography — the branch of biology concerned with the geographical distribution of plants and animals
  • black plague — Great Plague.
  • blue springs — a town in W Missouri.
  • blueprinting — a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, which produces a white line on a blue background.
  • 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
  • book-keeping — the skill or occupation of maintaining accurate records of business transactions
  • 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.
  • breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
  • breath group — a sequence of sounds articulated in the course of a single exhalation; an utterance or part of an utterance produced between pauses for breath.
  • bridge a gap — to remedy a deficiency
  • bridge party — a gathering for the purpose of playing bridge
  • bumper guard — either of two vertical crosspieces attached to a bumper of a motor vehicle to prevent it from locking bumpers with another vehicle.
  • bumping race — (esp at Oxford and Cambridge) a race in which rowing eights start an equal distance one behind the other and each tries to bump the boat in front
  • buying power — the amount of services or goods a company, person, group or currency is able to purchase
  • buying spree — the hurried acquisition by a company, of goods, assets, or other companies
  • buying-power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
  • cabbage palm — a West Indian palm, Roystonea (or Oreodoxa) oleracea, whose leaf buds are eaten like cabbage
  • carpetbagged — Simple past tense and past participle of carpetbag.
  • carpetbagger — If you call someone a carpetbagger, you disapprove of them because they are trying to become a politician in an area which is not their home, simply because they think they are more likely to succeed there.
  • gaboon viper — a large, venomous snake, Bitis gabonica, of tropical African forests, having large retractable fangs and geometrically patterned scales of yellow, brown, and sometimes purple.
  • garbage dump — rubbish tip, place where refuse is disposed of
  • germanophobe — a person who hates or fears Germany, Germans, or German culture.
  • gerontophobe — a person who fears or hates old people or the idea of growing old
  • helping verb — auxiliary verb.
  • hopper barge — a barge for disposing of garbage, dredged material, etc., having hoppers in the bottom through which such cargo can be dumped.
  • iambographer — a person who writes iambs
  • inexpugnable — incapable of being taken by force; impregnable; unconquerable.
  • inexpungible — that cannot be expunged, erased, or obliterated; inextirpable.
  • jumping bean — the seed of any of certain Mexican plants of the genera Sebastiania and Sapium, of the spurge family: the movements of a moth larva inside the seed cause it to move about or jump.
  • line probing — A feature of some V.34 modems that will allow them to identify the capacity and quality of the phone line and adjust themselves to allow, for each individual connection, for maximum throughput using the highest possible data transmission rate.
  • mumblety-peg — a children's game played with a pocketknife, the object being to cause the blade to stick in the ground or a wooden surface by flipping the knife in a number of prescribed ways or from a number of prescribed positions.

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