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11-letter words containing r, i, n, g

  • bridal gown — a wedding dress
  • bridge loan — A bridge 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.
  • bright-line — (of rules, standards, etc.) unambiguously clear: This muddies the waters of what should be a brightline rule.
  • bring about — To bring something about means to cause it to happen.
  • bring along — If you bring someone or something along, you bring them with you when you come to a place.
  • bring forth — to give birth to
  • bring round — to restore (a person) to consciousness, esp after a faint
  • bringing-up — to carry, convey, conduct, or cause (someone or something) to come with, to, or toward the speaker: Bring the suitcase to my house. He brought his brother to my office.
  • brisingamen — the magic necklace worn by Freya.
  • brobdingnag — in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, a land inhabited by giants about 60 feet tall
  • browbeating — to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing.
  • brownnosing — If you accuse someone of brownnosing, you are saying in a rather offensive way that they are agreeing with someone important in order to get their support.
  • bull riding — a rodeo event in which a contestant tries to ride a bucking bull for eight seconds, with one hand holding a rope tied to a band around the bull's chest.
  • buon giorno — good day; hello
  • burning out — to undergo rapid combustion or consume fuel in such a way as to give off heat, gases, and, usually, light; be on fire: The fire burned in the grate.
  • burns night — (in Scotland) 25 January, the traditional date for holding a celebratory meal (Burns supper) in honour of Robert Burns
  • bushranging — the life of a bushranger
  • calendaring — a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar.
  • calendering — a machine in which cloth, paper, or the like, is smoothed, glazed, etc., by pressing between rotating cylinders.
  • calf roping — a timed rodeo event in which a mounted rider chases and lassos a calf, dismounts, and throws the calf to the ground, tying three of the animal's legs with a short length of rope.
  • calibrating — Mark (a gauge or instrument) with a standard scale of readings.
  • campaigners — Plural form of campaigner.
  • caneworking — A glassblowing technique that uses rods of coloured glass to add intricate patterns and stripes to blown glass objects.
  • car bombing — an instance when a bomb which someone has hidden under or in a car explodes
  • caravanning — Caravanning is the activity of having a holiday in a caravan.
  • carbonating — Present participle of carbonate.
  • carbonizing — Present participle of carbonize.
  • carcinogens — Plural form of carcinogen.
  • carcinology — the study of crustaceans
  • cardiogenic — originating in the heart, or resulting from a disorder of the heart
  • care-taking — a person who is in charge of the maintenance of a building, estate, etc.; superintendent.
  • caressingly — In a caressing manner; soothingly.
  • cargo liner — a cargo ship that sails regularly between designated ports according to a published schedule.
  • carjackings — Plural form of carjacking.
  • carloadings — the number of railroad carloads shipped in or out within a given period
  • carnalizing — Present participle of carnalize.
  • carolingian — of or relating to the Frankish dynasty founded by Pepin the Short, son of Charles Martel, which ruled in France from 751–987 ad and in Germany until 911 ad
  • carousingly — in a carousing manner
  • carpogonium — the female sex organ of red algae, consisting of a swollen base containing the ovum and a long neck down which the male gametes pass
  • carrying-on — unconventional or questionable behaviour
  • cartelizing — Present participle of cartelize.
  • casting rod — a fishing rod, generally 4–8 feet (1.2–2.4 meters) long, for casting bait or lures with a reel mounted near the handle that enables the thumb or finger to control the line during a cast, including rods used for bait casting and spinning.
  • cauterizing — Present participle of cauterize.
  • cavaliering — a horseman, especially a mounted soldier; knight.
  • celebrating — Present participle of celebrate.
  • centigramme — Alternative spelling of centigram.
  • centimorgan — a unit of chromosome length, used in genetic mapping, equal to the length of chromosome over which crossing over occurs with 1 per cent frequency
  • centrifugal — acting, moving, or tending to move away from a centre
  • centrifuged — an apparatus that rotates at high speed and by centrifugal force separates substances of different densities, as milk and cream.
  • centrifuges — Plural form of centrifuge.
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