12-letter words containing s, g, r
- blue springs — a town in W Missouri.
- blues guitar — blues guitar music
- bluesnarfing — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to steal contact details, ring tones, images, etc from another
- boardsailing — windsurfing
- bog rosemary — any of several species (genus Andromeda) of evergreen shrubs of the heath family, native to cold bogs of North America and Europe, with pink flowers and narrow leaves
- bog-standard — If you describe something as bog-standard you mean that is an ordinary example of its kind, with no exciting or interesting features.
- 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)
- bookcrossing — the practice of deliberately leaving books in places where they will be found and read by other people
- bottom grass — any grass that grows on bottoms or lowlands.
- bourgeoisify — to convert to a bourgeois attitude or appearance
- braggadocios — empty boasting; bragging.
- brainwashing — the process of brainwashing.
- braunschweig — Brunswick
- breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
- bridge house — a deckhouse including a bridge or bridges for navigation.
- bright spark — If you say that some bright spark had a particular idea or did something, you mean that their idea or action was clever, or that it seemed clever but was silly in some way.
- broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
- brooks range — a mountain range in N Alaska. Highest peak: Mount Isto, 2761 m (9058 ft)
- brown-nosing — If you accuse someone of brown-nosing, you are saying in a rather offensive way that they are agreeing with someone important in order to get their support.
- buffel grass — grass used for pasture in Africa, India, and Australia
- burning bush — a rutaceous shrub, Dictamnus fraxinella, of S Europe and Asia, whose glands release a volatile inflammable oil that can burn without harming the plant: identified as the bush from which God spoke to Moses (Exodus 3:2–4)
- bush leaguer — Also called busher. Baseball. a player in a minor league. an incompetent player, as one who behaves or plays as if he or she belonged in a minor league.
- bush-leaguer — (in baseball) someone who plays in a minor league
- buying spree — the hurried acquisition by a company, of goods, assets, or other companies
- cabbage rose — a rose, Rosa centifolia, with a round compact full-petalled head
- camp springs — a city in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
- canary grass — any of various grasses of the genus Phalaris, esp P. canariensis, that is native to Europe and N Africa and has straw-coloured seeds used as birdseed
- canting arms — a coat of arms making visual reference to the surname of its owner
- caparisoning — Present participle of caparison.
- caper spurge — a spurge, Euphorbia lathyris, producing latex that is considered a possible source of crude oil and gasoline.
- card surfing — a form of cash-card fraud in which one person watches another using a cash dispenser, notes his or her personal identification number, and, after an accomplice has stolen the card, uses the card to withdraw cash
- cardiographs — Plural form of cardiograph.
- cardiologist — A cardiologist is a doctor who specializes in the heart and its diseases.
- carpet grass — either of two grasses, Axonopus affinis or A. compressus, native to tropical and subtropical America.
- carpophagous — feeding on fruit
- carriageways — Plural form of carriageway.
- carryings-on — wild, extravagant, or immoral behavior
- case grammar — a system of grammatical description based on the functional relations that noun groups have to the main verb of a sentence
- caster angle — the forward or backward tilt of the steering axis in a vehicle, when considered from the side
- caster sugar — Caster sugar is white sugar that has been ground into fine grains. It is used in cooking.
- castor sugar — finely ground or powdered sugar.
- categorising — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- caught short — having a sudden need to urinate or defecate
- ceiling rose — decorative plaster centrepiece
- center stage — If something or someone takes center stage, they become very important or noticeable.
- centimorgans — Plural form of centimorgan.
- centralising — Present participle of centralise.
- centre stage — If something or someone takes centre stage, they become very important or noticeable.
- chambersburg — a city in central Pennsylvania.
- change purse — A change purse is a very small bag that people, especially women, keep their money in.