13-letter words containing r, h, g
- back straight — a straight part of a circuit, esp of an athletics track or a racecourse, furthest from the finishing point
- bacteriophage — a virus that is parasitic in a bacterium and multiplies within its host, which is destroyed when the new viruses are released
- bacteriophagy — the action of a bacteriophage
- balch springs — a town in NE Texas.
- band together — If people band together, they meet and act as a group in order to try and achieve something.
- banking hours — the hours during which a bank is open for business
- basking shark — a very large plankton-eating shark, Cetorhinus maximus, often floating at the sea surface: family Cetorhinidae
- be hard going — If you say that something is hard going, you mean it is difficult and requires a lot of effort.
- beanbag chair — a chair like a large beanbag covered with vinyl, fabric, etc. and filled with foam pellets, as of polystyrene, that shift about to fit one's body
- benching iron — a triangular, pronged plate driven into the ground to provide a temporary bench mark or turning point.
- berchtesgaden — a town in Germany, in SE Bavaria: site of the fortified mountain retreat of Adolf Hitler. Pop: 7667 (2003 est)
- bethnal green — a former borough of London, England, N of the Thames.
- bibliographer — an expert in bibliography
- bibliographic — a complete or selective list of works compiled upon some common principle, as authorship, subject, place of publication, or printer.
- big-heartedly — in a big-hearted manner
- bighorn-river — a river flowing from central Wyoming to the Yellowstone River in S Montana. 336 miles (540 km) long.
- bio-autograph — an analytical technique in which organic compounds are separated by chromatography and identified by studying their effects on microorganisms.
- bioautography — an analytical technique in which organic compounds are separated by chromatography and identified by studying their effects on microorganisms.
- biogeographer — a person who is knowledgeable about biogeography
- bird-watching — Bird-watching is the activity of watching and studying wild birds in their natural surroundings.
- birthday girl — the girl or woman whose birthday is being celebrated
- birthing ball — a large soft rubber ball used by women during childbirth to give support and to aid pain relief
- birthing pool — a large bath in which a woman can give birth
- birthing room — a section of a hospital or an outpatient facility set aside and equipped for childbirth and usually simulating a home environment in which family members or friends may be present during the delivery.
- bishop's ring — a reddish-brown corona occasionally seen around the sun, caused by volcanic dust in the atmosphere.
- 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.
- bolt up right — a movable bar or rod that when slid into a socket fastens a door, gate, etc.
- bone-crushing — powerful or constricting enough to crush one's bones: a bone-crushing handshake.
- bonfire night — Bonfire Night is the popular name for Guy Fawkes Night.
- boutros-ghali — ˈBoutros (ˈbutroʊs ) ; bo̅oˈtrōs) 1922- ; Egypt. diplomat: secretary-general of the United Nations (1992-96)
- break through — If you break through a barrier, you succeed in forcing your way through it.
- breakthroughs — a military movement or advance all the way through and beyond an enemy's front-line defense.
- breathe again — to feel relief
- breechloading — loaded at the breech.
- bridging shot — a shot inserted in a film to indicate the passage of time between two scenes, as of a series of newspaper headlines or calendar pages being torn off.
- brigham young — Andrew (Jackson, Jr.) born 1932, U.S. clergyman, civil-rights leader, politician, and diplomat: mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, 1981–89.
- bright lights — If someone talks about the bright lights, they are referring to life in a big city where you can do a lot of enjoyable and exciting things and be successful.
- bring home to — to convince of
- bronchography — radiography of the bronchial tubes after the introduction of a radiopaque medium into the bronchi
- burgess shale — a bed of Cambrian sedimentary rock in the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia containing many unique invertebrate fossils
- cache storage — cache (def 3).
- cacographical — Synonym of cacographic.
- calligraphist — fancy penmanship, especially highly decorative handwriting, as with a great many flourishes: She appreciated the calligraphy of the 18th century.
- camping chair — a chair which is suitable for use in temporary quarters, on holiday, etc, esp by being portable and easy to set up
- candlelighter — a person whose task it is to light candles
- card clothing — a very sturdy fabric with a leather or rubber fillet imbedded with wire teeth for disentangling and cleaning textile fibers, used to cover the rollers or flats of a carding machine.
- cardiganshire — a former county of W Wales: became part of Dyfed in 1974; reinstated as Ceredigion in 1996
- cardiographic — (physiology) Of or pertaining to, or produced by, a cardiograph.
- carnegie hall — a famous concert hall in New York (opened 1891); endowed by Andrew Carnegie