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13-letter words containing s, i, g, b

  • get rid of sb — If you get rid of someone who is causing problems for you or who you do not like, you do something to prevent them affecting you any more, for example by making them leave.
  • gibson desert — a desert in W central Australia: scrub; salt marshes. About 85,000 sq. mi. (220,000 sq. km).
  • girl's blouse — used to refer to a man who is not behaving in a very strong or masculine way
  • give sb heart — If something gives you heart, it makes you feel more confident or happy about something.
  • glass-blowing — the art or process of forming or shaping a mass of molten or heat-softened glass into ware by blowing air into it through a tube.
  • globalisation — internationalisation
  • globe thistle — any of various Old World, thistlelike, composite plants of the genus Echinops, having dense heads of tubular blue or white flowers.
  • globuliferous — containing or producing globules.
  • goldfish bowl — round glass container for goldfish
  • great basinet — a basinet having a beaver permanently attached.
  • great grimsby — seaport in Humberside, NE England, at the mouth of the Humber estuary: county district pop. 91,000
  • guinea-bissau — a republic on the W coast of Africa, between Guinea and Senegal: formerly a Portuguese overseas province; gained independence in 1974. 13,948 sq. mi. (36,125 sq. km). Capital: Bissau.
  • housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
  • housebuilding — The trade or activity of building houses.
  • husking (bee) — cornhusking (sense 2)
  • hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
  • incognoscible — (rare, dated) Not capable of being known; incomprehensible.
  • incorrigibles — Plural form of incorrigible.
  • king's bounty — a grant, given in the royal name, to a mother of triplets.
  • king-size bed — extra-large bed
  • know by sight — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
  • labiogression — location of the anterior teeth forward of their natural position.
  • labour-saving — A labour-saving device or idea makes it possible for you to do something with less effort than usual.
  • losing battle — attempt doomed to failure
  • luxembourgish — Also, Luxembourgish [luhk-suh m-bur-gish] /ˈlʌk səmˌbɜr gɪʃ/ (Show IPA). Letzeburgesch.
  • megaloblastic — an abnormally large, immature, and dysfunctional red blood cell found in the blood of persons with pernicious anemia or certain other disorders.
  • middlesbrough — a seaport in NE England, on the Tees estuary.
  • navigableness — Quality of being navigable.
  • neighborhoods — Plural form of neighborhood.
  • nesting table — one of a set of usually three or four small tables that are graduated in size so that they may be stacked on top of one another.
  • nitrogen base — Chemistry, Biochemistry. a nitrogen-containing organic compound that has the chemical properties of a base, especially a pyrimidine or purine: Four nitrogen bases are present in a DNA molecule.
  • nonce-bashing — violent attacks against rapists, child molesters, or sexual offenders, esp inside a prison
  • nondigestible — Not digestible.
  • pigeon breast — chicken breast.
  • pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
  • postbourgeois — (in Marxist thought) belonging to a period of society after the decline of the bourgeoisie
  • pouring-basin — (in a vacuum induction furnace) a trough through which molten metal flows under vacuum to a mold chamber.
  • psychobiology — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
  • pudding basin — A pudding basin is a deep round bowl that is used in the kitchen, especially for mixing or for cooking puddings.
  • queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
  • rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
  • rambling rose — any of various cultivated hybrid roses that straggle over other vegetation
  • re-submitting — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
  • rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
  • riding stable — a place where horses are kept for people to ride
  • roxburghshire — a historic county in SE Scotland.
  • self-doubting — lacking in confidence
  • sewing basket — box for sewing accessories
  • shadow boxing — to make the motions of attack and defense, as in boxing, as a training or conditioning procedure.
  • shaving brush — a short, cylindrical brush with long, soft, bristles, used in lathering the face before shaving.
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