13-letter words containing r, a, n, g
- big brown bat — any of several small to medium-sized common bats of the genera Myotis and Eptesicus, found worldwide in caves, trees, and buildings, including M. lucifugus (little brown bat) and E. fuscus (big brown bat) a widespread North American species.
- bildungsroman — a novel concerned with a person's formative years and development
- bird-watching — Bird-watching is the activity of watching and studying wild birds in their natural surroundings.
- birectangular — having two right angles.
- birthing ball — a large soft rubber ball used by women during childbirth to give support and to aid pain relief
- bitter orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
- blamestorming — a discussion or meeting for the purpose of assigning blame.
- board meeting — a meeting of the board of a company or other organization
- boarding card — A boarding card is a card which a passenger must have when boarding a plane or a boat.
- boarding fees — fees paid for boarding at a school
- boarding pass — A boarding pass is a card that a passenger must have when boarding a plane or a boat.
- boardinghouse — a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests
- bohr magneton — a unit that is used to indicate the magnetic moment of the electron structure in an atom, equal to 9.27 × 10 −21 erg/gauss.
- boiling range — A boiling range is the temperature range involved in the distillation of oil, from the start to the time when it evaporates.
- 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.
- 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
- bosman ruling — an EU ruling that allows out-of-contract footballers to leave their clubs without the clubs receiving a transfer fee
- boudoir grand — a domestic grand piano between 5 and 6 feet in length
- bouquet garni — A bouquet garni is a bunch of herbs that are tied together and used in cooking to add flavour to the food.
- bourdon gauge — a type of aneroid pressure gauge consisting of a flattened curved tube attached to a pointer that moves around a dial. As the pressure in the tube increases the tube tends to straighten and the pointer indicates the applied pressure
- 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.
- brain-picking — the act of obtaining information or ideas by questioning another person.
- brainstorming — intensive discussion to solve problems or generate ideas
- braking power — the ability of a braking system to cause a vehicle to come to a halt
- brand manager — the person responsible for the marketing of a particular brand
- branded goods — goods that are identifiable as being the product of a particular manufacturer or marketing company
- branding iron — a long-handled metal rod with a stamp at one end, used for branding livestock, especially cattle, with a registered or recognized symbol or character to indicate ownership.
- branding-iron — an iron heated and used for branding animals, etc
- brass rubbing — A brass rubbing is a picture made by placing a piece of paper over a brass plate that has writing or a picture on it, and rubbing it with a wax crayon.
- brass-rubbing — an antiquarian's technique for copying designs from incised brass memorial slabs and the like.
- brassfounding — the practice of making things from brass
- brazing alloy — a solder fusing at temperatures above 1200°F (650°C).
- 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
- bridging loan — A bridging loan is money that a bank lends you for a short time, for example so that you can buy a new house before you have sold the one you already own.
- 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.
- brigham young — Andrew (Jackson, Jr.) born 1932, U.S. clergyman, civil-rights leader, politician, and diplomat: mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, 1981–89.