13-letter words containing s, a, g, e
- blood sausage — a kind of black sausage made from minced pork fat, pig's blood, and other ingredients
- blow a gasket — to burst out in anger
- blue grosbeak — a grosbeak, Guiraca caerulea, of the U.S., Mexico, and Central America, the male of which is blue with two rusty bars on each wing.
- boarding fees — fees paid for boarding at a school
- boardinghouse — a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests
- 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
- boys' brigade — (in Britain) an organization for boys, founded in 1883, with the aim of promoting discipline and self-respect
- brain surgeon — a surgeon who specializes in brain surgery
- brain surgery — operation on the brain
- branded goods — goods that are identifiable as being the product of a particular manufacturer or marketing company
- breaking news — news of events that have taken place very recently or are in the process of taking place
- breakthroughs — a military movement or advance all the way through and beyond an enemy's front-line defense.
- 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.
- bristle-grass — any of various grasses of the genus Setaria, such as S. viridis, having a bristly inflorescence
- buccaneerings — the characteristic actions of a buccaneer
- buck sergeant — a newly promoted sergeant
- burgess shale — a bed of Cambrian sedimentary rock in the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia containing many unique invertebrate fossils
- burmese glass — an American art glass of the late 19th century, ranging from greenish-yellow to pink.
- bus mastering — bus master
- bypass engine — a gas turbine in which a part of the compressor delivery bypasses the combustion zone, flowing directly into or around the main exhaust gas flow to provide additional thrust
- cache storage — cache (def 3).
- calf's tongue — a molding having pendent, tonguelike members in relief against a flat or molded surface.
- camping stove — a portable stove powered by butane gas canisters, designed to be used for cooking while camping
- candle grease — the wax which is used in the manufacture of candles
- capsule range — a small range of clothes by a particular designer, intended to be representative of the full range
- cardiganshire — a former county of W Wales: became part of Dyfed in 1974; reinstated as Ceredigion in 1996
- carpetbaggers — U.S. History. a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War and became active in Republican politics, especially so as to profiteer from the unsettled social and political conditions of the area during Reconstruction.
- carrickfergus — a town in E Northern Ireland, in Carrickfergus district, Co Antrim; historic settlement of Scottish Protestants on Belfast Lough; Norman castle. Pop: 27 201 (2001)
- cartographers — Plural form of cartographer.
- cascade range — a chain of mountains in the US and Canada: a continuation of the Sierra Nevada range from N California through Oregon and Washington to British Columbia. Highest peak: Mount Rainier, 4392 m (14 408 ft)
- casehardening — Present participle of caseharden.
- cash dealings — transactions that are carried out using cash
- cash register — A cash register is a machine in a shop, pub, or restaurant that is used to add up and record how much money people pay, and in which the money is kept.
- casing hanger — A casing hanger is the part of a wellhead that supports the casing string.
- casting wheel — a wheel having on its circumference molds for receiving molten metal.
- catalog verse — verse made by compiling long lists of everyday objects, names, or events, united by a common theme and often didactic in tone.
- categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
- cellar fungus — a fungus, Coniophora puteana, that causes dry rot in timber.
- cerynean stag — a stag living in Arcadia, captured by Hercules as one of his labors.
- chaise longue — A chaise longue is a kind of sofa with only one arm and usually a back along half its length.
- chaise lounge — A chaise lounge is the same as a chaise longue.
- changefulness — Propensity to change.
- chasse gardee — a private hunting preserve.
- cheese grater — an implement for grating cheese
- chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
- chicago steak — a strip steak or, sometimes, a shell steak.
- chicago style — a style of jazz flourishing in Chicago especially in the early 1920s, constituting a direct offshoot of New Orleans style, and differing from its predecessor chiefly in the diminished influence of native folk sources, the greater tension of its group improvisation, the increased emphasis on solos, and the regular use of the tenor saxophone as part of the ensemble.
- cigarette ash — the ash created by smoking a cigarette
- cinema goers' — filmgoer.
- circumambages — round-about methods