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15-letter words containing g

  • bat-wing sleeve — formed, shaped, etc., like the wing of a bat.
  • bathing costume — A bathing costume is a piece of clothing that is worn for swimming, especially by women and girls.
  • bathing machine — a small hut, on wheels so that it could be pulled to the sea, used in the 18th and 19th centuries for bathers to change their clothes
  • bathing-machine — a small bathhouse on wheels formerly used as a dressing room and in which bathers could also be transported from the beach to the water.
  • bathythermogram — a record made by a bathythermograph.
  • battery charger — a device that can restore the charge to a battery, usually by means of electricity
  • battery farming — the activity of using batteries for raising poultry
  • batting average — in baseball, a figure expressing the average batting efficiency of a player or team, figured by dividing the number of base hits by the number of official at-bats
  • battleship gray — a subdued bluish gray.
  • bayonet fitting — a type of fastening in which a cylindrical member is inserted into a socket against spring pressure and turned so that pins on its side engage in slots in the socket
  • be having sb on — If you are having someone on, you are pretending that something is true when it is not true, for example as a joke or in order to tease them.
  • be raring to go — If you say that you are raring to go, you mean that you are very eager to start doing something.
  • be spoiling for — to have an aggressive desire for (a fight, etc)
  • beach goldenrod — a composite plant, Solidago sempervirens, of eastern and southern North America, having a thick stem and large, branched, one-sided terminal clusters of yellow flowers, flourishing on sea beaches or salt marshes.
  • beat generation — members of the generation that came to maturity in the 1950s, whose rejection of the social and political systems of the West was expressed through contempt for regular work, possessions, traditional dress, etc, and espousal of anarchism, communal living, drugs, etc
  • beat one's gums — to talk much and idly
  • bedford heights — a town in N Ohio.
  • bedtime reading — a book, magazine etc read at bedtime
  • beef stroganoff — a dish of thin strips of beef cooked with onions, mushrooms, and seasonings, served in a sour-cream sauce
  • beef wellington — a lightly roasted beef fillet covered with pâté de foie gras, wrapped in pastry, and then baked
  • beginner's luck — the initial good fortune or success commonly supposed to come to a person who has recently taken up a new pursuit, as a sport or game: Catching a large trout the first time you go fishing is simply beginner's luck.
  • beginning rhyme — the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words; alliteration, as in The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew.
  • belgian griffon — one of a variety of the Brussels griffon having a black or reddish-brown and black coat.
  • belt-tightening — If you need to do some belt-tightening, you must spend less money and manage without things because you have less money than you used to have.
  • benefits agency — an agency that handles the payment of benefits
  • benzoglyoxaline — benzimidazole.
  • bergamot orange — a small Asian spiny rutaceous tree, Citrus bergamia, having sour pear-shaped fruit
  • bergius process — a method of hydrogenation formerly used with coal to produce an oil similar to petroleum.
  • beta-adrenergic — pertaining to or involving beta receptors
  • bibliographical — a complete or selective list of works compiled upon some common principle, as authorship, subject, place of publication, or printer.
  • bicycle touring — the activity of touring on a bicycle
  • big bang theory — In astronomy the big bang theory is a theory that suggests that the universe was created as a result of an extremely large explosion.
  • big black river — a river in N central Mississippi, flowing SW to the Mississippi River near Vicksburg. 330 miles (531 km) long.
  • big muddy river — a river in SW Illinois, flowing SW into the Mississippi. About 120 miles (195 km) long.
  • big sandy creek — a river in central Colorado, flowing NE and SE to the Arkansas River near Lamar: site of the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre. 200 miles (322 km) long.
  • big white chief — an important person, boss, or leader
  • billing machine — a business machine used to itemize and total customer accounts, produce bills, post account records, etc.
  • billings method — a natural method of birth control that involves examining the colour and viscosity of the cervical mucus to discover when ovulation is occurring
  • biobibliography — a bibliography containing biographical sketches of the authors listed.
  • biogasification — the conversion of organic matter into biogas.
  • biogeochemistry — the science of biological, chemical, and geological aspects of the environment
  • biopsychologist — a field of psychology that deals with the effects of biological factors on behavior.
  • biostratigraphy — the examination of the ages of rock strata by using fossils
  • bipartite graph — complete graph
  • birch partridge — ruffed grouse
  • bird of passage — If you refer to someone as a bird of passage, you mean that they are staying in a place for a short time before going to another place.
  • birthing center — a medical facility for the labor and childbirth experience in a family-friendly, homelike environment.
  • birthing centre — a private maternity hospital
  • biting housefly — a two-winged fly, Stomoxys calcitrans, having the mouthparts adapted for biting, and commonly a household and stable pest.
  • bitmapped image — a computer image that is held in memory as a series of colored dots in a grid, each dot represented by one or more bits.
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