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12-letter words containing t, i, g, r

  • boating trip — a trip or holiday in a boat such as a sailing boat or canal boat
  • bogon filter — /boh'gon fil'tr/ Any device, software or hardware, that limits or suppresses the flow and/or emission of bogons. "Engineering hacked a bogon filter between the Cray and the VAXen, and now we're getting fewer dropped packets." See also bogosity.
  • bolt upright — If someone is sitting or standing bolt upright, they are sitting or standing very straight.
  • border light — a striplight hung upstage of a border, for lighting the stage.
  • born-digital — relating to or noting documents, images, etc., that are created and managed in electronic form: electronic preservation of born-digital content; a born-digital e-book that will not be available in print.
  • boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
  • breathtaking — If you say that something is breathtaking, you are emphasizing that it is extremely beautiful or amazing.
  • bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
  • bridge party — a gathering for the purpose of playing bridge
  • bridge table — a square card table with folding legs.
  • brigham city — a city in N Utah.
  • 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.
  • bright-field — of or relating to the illuminated region about the object of a microscope.
  • bring action — to start a lawsuit
  • bring to bay — to force into a position from which retreat is impossible
  • broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
  • brown bag it — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
  • burning ghat — a platform at the top of a riverside ghat where Hindus cremate their dead.
  • butter icing — a mixture of butter and icing sugar used for filling or topping cakes
  • cage cricket — a form of cricket played in an enclosed space, in which six players compete as individuals
  • camphorating — Present participle of camphorate.
  • cantabrigian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Cambridge or Cambridge University, or of Cambridge, Massachusetts, or Harvard University
  • canting arms — a coat of arms making visual reference to the surname of its owner
  • cardiologist — A cardiologist is a doctor who specializes in the heart and its diseases.
  • caricaturing — a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things: His caricature of the mayor in this morning's paper is the best he's ever drawn.
  • carpentering — a person who builds or repairs wooden structures, as houses, scaffolds, or shelving.
  • carry weight — to be important, influential, etc.
  • carthaginian — of or relating to Carthage or its inhabitants
  • cartographic — Of or pertaining to the making of maps.
  • cartological — relating to cartology
  • cartwheeling — Present participle of cartwheel.
  • categorially — in a manner relating to or involving categories
  • categoricity — The quality of being categorical.
  • categorising — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • categorizing — Present participle of categorize.
  • caterwauling — the shrieking and yowling made by a cat, for example when it is on heat or fighting
  • centimorgans — Plural form of centimorgan.
  • centralising — Present participle of centralise.
  • centralizing — Present participle of centralize.
  • centrifugate — the denser of the centrifuged materials.
  • centrifuging — an apparatus that rotates at high speed and by centrifugal force separates substances of different densities, as milk and cream.
  • chapter ring — a ringlike band on the dial of a clock that bears the numerals or other symbols of the hours.
  • chhattisgarh — a state of E central India, created from the SE part of Madhya Pradesh in 2000: consists of a hilly plateau, with extensive forests; agricultural. Capital: Raipur. Pop: 20 795 956 (2001). Area: 135 194 sq km (52 199 sq miles)
  • chirognomist — someone who studies chirognomy
  • chitterlings — the intestines of a pig or other animal prepared as a dish
  • chlorinating — Present participle of chlorinate.
  • choreologist — a person who is expert in choreology
  • christenings — Plural form of christening.
  • chronologist — a person versed in chronology.
  • circumgyrate — to cause (something) to move in a circular motion
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