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13-letter words containing t, o, g, b

  • bonfire night — Bonfire Night is the popular name for Guy Fawkes Night.
  • booking agent — an agent who makes bookings, as reservations for travel or the theater or engagements for performers, for clients.
  • bottlenecking — a narrow entrance or passageway.
  • bottomfishing — to fish with a weighted line for fish that feed close to the bottom.
  • bouquet garni — A bouquet garni is a bunch of herbs that are tied together and used in cooking to add flavour to the food.
  • boutros-ghali — ˈBoutros (ˈbutroʊs ) ; bo̅oˈtrōs) 1922- ; Egypt. diplomat: secretary-general of the United Nations (1992-96)
  • bowling match — a game of bowls
  • brainstorming — intensive discussion to solve problems or generate ideas
  • 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.
  • bridging shot — a shot inserted in a film to indicate the passage of time between two scenes, as of a series of newspaper headlines or calendar pages being torn off.
  • bring home to — to convince of
  • bring to bear — to bring into operation or effect
  • bring to book — to reprimand or require (someone) to give an explanation of his conduct
  • bring to life — to bring back to consciousness
  • bring to mind — recall
  • bring to pass — to cause to happen
  • budget period — the time which a budget covers
  • building plot — a piece of land on which a house can be built
  • butyryl group — the univalent group C 4 H 7 O–.
  • carbon dating — Carbon dating is a system of calculating the age of a very old object by measuring the amount of radioactive carbon it contains.
  • carriage bolt — a round-headed bolt for timber, threaded along part of its shank, inserted into holes already drilled.
  • categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
  • categorizable — Capable of being categorized.
  • cloth binding — a type of binding in which a book is bound in stiff boards covered with cloth
  • club together — If people club together to do something, they all give money towards the cost of it.
  • coagulability — The ability to coagulate, of being coagulable.
  • cobelligerent — a country fighting in a war on the side of another country
  • collaborating — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
  • colostomy bag — a bag that is attached to the surgical opening from the colon onto the surface of the body and into which faecal matter passes
  • concertgebouw — a concert hall in Amsterdam, inaugurated in 1888: the Concertgebouw Orchestra established in 1888, has been independent of the hall since World War II
  • confabulating — Present participle of confabulate.
  • congratulable — worthy of congratulation
  • congress boot — a high shoe with an elastic insert in each side
  • coolidge tube — a cathode ray tube, used for x-ray production, in which a beam of thermoelectrons is produced by heating a wire cathode.
  • copyrightable — the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc.: works granted such right by law on or after January 1, 1978, are protected for the lifetime of the author or creator and for a period of 70 years after his or her death.
  • corrigibility — The quality or state of being corrigible.
  • corroborating — Present participle of corroborate.
  • counterboring — a tool for enlarging a drilled hole for a portion of its length, as to permit sinking a screw head.
  • cryobiologist — A biologist who specializes in cryobiology.
  • cutting board — A cutting board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
  • daughterboard — a small circuit board that can be attached to the motherboard of a computer
  • decarbonating — Present participle of decarbonate.
  • demothballing — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.
  • desobligeante — a type of carriage seating only one person
  • diabetologist — a person who studies diabetes
  • disambiguator — Anything that serves to disambiguate.
  • disobligation — the state of being without obligation
  • disobligatory — not obligatory
  • disobligement — disobligation
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