13-letter words containing t, e, g
- bouquet garni — A bouquet garni is a bunch of herbs that are tied together and used in cooking to add flavour to the food.
- brazing metal — a nonferrous metal, as copper, zinc, or nickel, or an alloy, as hard solder, used for brazing together pieces of metal.
- break through — If you break through a barrier, you succeed in forcing your way through it.
- breakthroughs — a military movement or advance all the way through and beyond an enemy's front-line defense.
- breathe again — to feel relief
- 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.
- bring home to — to convince of
- bring to bear — to bring into operation or effect
- bring to life — to bring back to consciousness
- 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 period — the time which a budget covers
- 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
- cabbage white — any large white butterfly of the genus Pieris, esp the Eurasian species P. brassicae, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of cabbages and related vegetables: family Pieridae
- cabinetmaking — the manufacture of fine furniture and other woodwork.
- cache storage — cache (def 3).
- cage fighting — Cage fighting is a type of organized violent fighting that takes place in an enclosed space.
- 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
- candlelighter — a person whose task it is to light candles
- cantilevering — Present participle of cantilever.
- canton ginger — preserved or crystallized ginger of fine quality.
- cariogenicity — conducive to the production or promotion of dental caries: the cariogenic factors in sweets.
- carnegie unit — a standardized unit of measurement for evaluating courses in secondary schools in terms of college entrance requirements, representing one year's study in any subject, that subject having been taught for a minimum of 120 classroom hours to qualify.
- carnot engine — an engine using a Carnot cycle of operations.
- carpet knight — a soldier who spends his life away from battle; idler
- 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.
- carpetbaggery — the practice of being a carpetbagger
- carpetbagging — relating to carpetbaggers or to the practice of carpetbaggers
- carriage bolt — a round-headed bolt for timber, threaded along part of its shank, inserted into holes already drilled.
- cartographers — Plural form of cartographer.
- cartridge pen — a pen having a removable ink reservoir that is replaced when empty
- 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.
- categorematic — (of a word) able to stand alone as a term or subject
- categorically — without exceptions or conditions; absolute; unqualified and unconditional: a categorical denial.
- categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
- categorizable — Capable of being categorized.
- catheterizing — Present participle of catheterize.
- cattle plague — rinderpest.
- cave painting — a painting done by prehistoric people in caves
- central angle — an angle whose vertex is at the centre of a circle
- centre ground — the nominal space in the political spectrum that is neither right or left
- centrifugally — Away from a centre or axis.
- centrifugence — the property of being centrifugal