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13-letter words containing t, a, g

  • auctioneering — Present participle of auctioneer.
  • augmentations — Plural form of augmentation.
  • auguste comte — (Isidore) Auguste (Marie François) [ee-zee-dawr oh-gyst ma-ree frahn-swa] /i ziˈdɔr oʊˈgüst maˈri frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 1798–1857, French founder of the philosophical system of positivism.
  • austenitizing — to form austenite in (a ferrous alloy) by heating.
  • autobiography — Your autobiography is an account of your life, which you write yourself.
  • autodigestion — (biology) The digestion of tissue by enzymes produced by the organism itself.
  • autographical — Relating to, or used in, the process of autography.
  • automagically — automatically; in a way that is hidden from or not understood by the user, and in that sense, apparently “magical”: I downloaded an app that automagically adds a travel itinerary to my calendar whenever I buy a plane ticket.
  • automatograph — a device for recording involuntary bodily movements.
  • autoradiogram — autoradiograph
  • avant-gardism — the attitudes, techniques, etc., of the cultural avant-garde.
  • back straight — a straight part of a circuit, esp of an athletics track or a racecourse, furthest from the finishing point
  • back-stabbing — Back-stabbing consists of unkind and disloyal actions or remarks that are likely to harm someone such as a friend or colleague.
  • back-up light — a light on the rear of a motor vehicle to warn others that the vehicle is being reversed
  • backing light — Also called backing striplight, backing strip. Theater. a striplight providing diffused illumination for the background of a stage set.
  • backing store — a computer storage device, usually a disk, that provides additional storage space for information so that it can be accessed and referred to when required and may be copied into the processor if needed
  • backing track — a recorded instrumental or vocal accompaniment for a pop singer or pop number
  • backstitching — Present participle of backstitch.
  • bacteriogenic — Caused by bacteria.
  • bacteriologic — a branch of microbiology dealing with the identification, study, and cultivation of bacteria and with their applications in medicine, agriculture, industry, and biotechnology.
  • bacteriophage — a virus that is parasitic in a bacterium and multiplies within its host, which is destroyed when the new viruses are released
  • bacteriophagy — the action of a bacteriophage
  • bag of tricks — a container or receptacle of leather, plastic, cloth, paper, etc., capable of being closed at the mouth; pouch.
  • bag of waters — a fluid-filled membranous sac in the pregnant uterus that encloses and cushions the fetus, normally breaking at or just before the time of birth; the amnion.
  • bag-snatching — theft that involves snatching women's handbags
  • baggage train — a train of wagons carrying the equipment needed by an army on the march
  • baggagemaster — a person employed, especially by a railroad, bus company, or steamship line, to take charge of passengers' baggage.
  • balancing act — If you perform a balancing act, you try to deal successfully with two or more people, groups, or situations that are in opposition to each other.
  • band together — If people band together, they meet and act as a group in order to try and achieve something.
  • bang goes sth — If you say bang goes something, you mean that it is now obvious that it cannot succeed or be achieved.
  • bang on about — If someone bangs on about something, they keep talking about it in a boring or annoying way.
  • bantamweights — Plural form of bantamweight.
  • bastard eigne — the first-born illegitimate son of parents whose second son was legitimate.
  • battering ram — A battering ram is a long heavy piece of wood that is used to knock down the locked doors of buildings.
  • battering-ram — an ancient military device with a heavy horizontal ram for battering down walls, gates, etc.
  • batting order — the sequence in which hitters will bat in a given game, determined in advance by the team manager.
  • battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
  • be upstanding — (in a court of law) a direction to all persons present to rise to their feet before the judge enters or leaves the court
  • beaking joint — a straight joint made by several members, as strips of flooring, ending at the same line.
  • bearing plate — a heavy metal plate for receiving and distributing concentrated weight, as from a column or one end of a truss.
  • bedding plant — A bedding plant is a plant which lasts for one year. It is put in a flower bed before it flowers, and is then removed when it has finished flowering.
  • bedding-plant — bedmaker (def 1).
  • beige toaster — Macintosh
  • beleaguerment — a blockade or siege
  • benthopelagic — relating to species living at the bottom of the sea
  • berchtesgaden — a town in Germany, in SE Bavaria: site of the fortified mountain retreat of Adolf Hitler. Pop: 7667 (2003 est)
  • bergamot mint — an aromatic herb, Mentha piperita citrata, having a lemonlike odor when crushed.
  • bering strait — a strait between Alaska and Russia, connecting the Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean
  • beta globulin — a blood plasma protein that is separable from other globulins by electrophoresis.
  • beta-blocking — acting to inhibit the activity of the nerves that are stimulated by adrenaline
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