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13-letter words containing s, t, e, g

  • berchtesgaden — a town in Germany, in SE Bavaria: site of the fortified mountain retreat of Adolf Hitler. Pop: 7667 (2003 est)
  • bering strait — a strait between Alaska and Russia, connecting the Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean
  • bioenergetics — the study of energy transformations in living organisms and systems
  • biogeneticist — genetic engineering.
  • bitch goddess — worldly or material success personified as a goddess, especially one requiring sacrifice and being essentially destructive: He went to New York to worship the bitch goddess.
  • blamestorming — a discussion or meeting for the purpose of assigning blame.
  • blastogenesis — the theory that inherited characteristics are transmitted only by germ plasm
  • blinkenlights — /blink'*n-li:tz/ Front-panel diagnostic lights on a computer, especially a dinosaur. Derives from the last word of the famous blackletter-Gothic sign in mangled pseudo-German that once graced about half the computer rooms in the English-speaking world. One version ran in its entirety as follows: In an amusing example of turnabout-is-fair-play, German hackers have developed their own versions of the blinkenlights poster in fractured English, one of which is reproduced here: ATTENTION This room is fullfilled mit special electronische equippment. Fingergrabbing and pressing the cnoeppkes from the computers is allowed for die experts only! So all the "lefthanders" stay away and do not disturben the brainstorming von here working intelligencies. Otherwise you will be out thrown and kicked anderswhere! Also: please keep still and only watchen astaunished the blinkenlights. See also geef.
  • blow a gasket — to burst out in anger
  • 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
  • buck sergeant — a newly promoted sergeant
  • budget speech — the speech in which the Chancellor presents his budget to parliament
  • building site — A building site is an area of land on which a building or a group of buildings is in the process of being built or altered.
  • bulk settling — Bulk settling is a process in which two liquids, or a solid and a liquid, of different densities are allowed to separate by gravity.
  • bus mastering — bus master
  • butterfingers — a person who drops things inadvertently or fails to catch things
  • 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
  • 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.
  • cartographers — Plural form of cartographer.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • cerynean stag — a stag living in Arcadia, captured by Hercules as one of his labors.
  • cheese grater — an implement for grating cheese
  • 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
  • clear-sighted — If you describe someone as clear-sighted, you admire them because they are able to understand situations well and to make sensible judgments and decisions about them.
  • cleistogamous — having small, unopened, self-pollinating flowers, usually in addition to the showier flowers
  • close-fitting — Close-fitting clothes fit tightly and show the shape of your body.
  • coasting lead — a lead used in sounding depths of from 20 to 60 fathoms.
  • codeswitching — Alternative form of code-switching.
  • come to grips — to engage in hand-to-hand fighting
  • commiserating — to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity.
  • computerising — Present participle of computerise.
  • conglomerates — anything composed of heterogeneous materials or elements.
  • congratulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of congratulate.
  • congregations — Plural form of congregation.
  • congress boot — a high shoe with an elastic insert in each side
  • conjugateness — The quality of being conjugate.
  • consternating — Present participle of consternate.
  • constringence — inverse of the dispersive power of a medium
  • contents page — the page in a book that shows the table of contents
  • contingencies — dependence on chance or on the fulfillment of a condition; uncertainty; fortuitousness: Nothing was left to contingency.
  • contragestion — a form of contraception that can be used after fertilization of the ovum, preventing gestation
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