12-letter words containing r, e, g, n
- bear-baiting — (formerly) an entertainment in which dogs attacked and enraged a chained bear
- beardtongues — Plural form of beardtongue.
- bearing down — to hold up; support: to bear the weight of the roof.
- bearing pile — a foundation pile that supports weight vertically
- bearing rail — a transverse rail carrying a drawer or drawers.
- bearing rein — a rein from the bit to the saddle, designed to keep the horse's head in the desired position
- bearing wall — any of the walls supporting a floor or the roof of a building.
- bearskin rug — the pelt of a bear, used as a rug
- begrudgingly — If you do something begrudgingly, you do it unwillingly.
- beleaguering — to surround with military forces.
- belgian hare — a large red breed of domestic rabbit
- bell gardens — a town in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- belligerence — the act or quality of being belligerent or warlike; aggressiveness
- belligerency — the state of being at war
- belligerents — warlike; given to waging war.
- below ground — If something is below ground or below the ground, it is in the ground.
- benchmarking — In business, benchmarking is a process in which a company compares its products and methods with those of the most successful companies in its field, in order to try to improve its own performance.
- bengal tiger — a large tiger found in S. Asia
- benzal group — the bivalent group C 7 H 6 –, derived from benzaldehyde.
- benzene ring — the hexagonal ring of bonded carbon atoms in the benzene molecule or its derivatives
- benzyl group — the univalent group C 7 H 7 –, derived from toluene.
- berlichingen — Götz von (ɡœts fɔn), called the Iron Hand. 1480–1562, German warrior knight, who robbed merchants and kidnapped nobles for ransom
- bible banger — Bible-thumper.
- bible-banger — Bible-thumper.
- bingo caller — the person who shouts out the numbers to bingo players
- bird nesting — the activity of searching for birds' nests as a hobby
- biscay green — a yellowish green.
- blaze orange — a very bright orange, as on a traffic cone.
- blisteringly — causing a blister or blisters.
- blood orange — a variety of orange all or part of the pulp of which is dark red when ripe
- 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.
- bluesnarfing — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to steal contact details, ring tones, images, etc from another
- bog-iron ore — a deposit of impure limonite formed in low, wet areas.
- bognor regis — a resort in S England, in West Sussex on the English Channel: electronics industries. Regis was added to the name after King George V's convalescence there in 1929. Pop: 62 141 (2001)
- bogon filter — /boh'gon fil'tr/ Any device, software or hardware, that limits or suppresses the flow and/or emission of bogons. "Engineering hacked a bogon filter between the Cray and the VAXen, and now we're getting fewer dropped packets." See also bogosity.
- boilermaking — metal-working in heavy industry; plating or welding
- bonding wire — A bonding wire is a wire connecting two pieces of equipment, often for hazard prevention.
- bonnet rouge — a red cap worn by ardent supporters of the French Revolution
- 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.
- boomeranging — a bent or curved piece of tough wood used by the Australian Aborigines as a throwing club, one form of which can be thrown so as to return to the thrower.
- bottle green — a deep green.
- bottle-green — Something that is bottle-green is dark green in colour.
- boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
- bound charge — any electric charge that is bound to an atom or molecule (opposed to free charge).
- bowdlerizing — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- boxgrove man — a type of primitive man, probably Homo heidelbergensis, and probably dating from the Middle Palaeolithic period some 500 000 years ago; remains were found at Boxgrove in West Sussex in 1993 and 1995
- brain damage — If someone suffers brain damage, their brain is damaged by an illness or injury so that they cannot function normally.
- brake lining — a curved thin strip of an asbestos composition riveted to a brake shoe to provide it with a renewable surface
- braunschweig — Brunswick