13-letter words containing ge
- bailey bridge — a temporary bridge made of prefabricated steel panels that can be rapidly assembled
- band together — If people band together, they meet and act as a group in order to try and achieve something.
- base exchange — a nonprofit general store at a military base, for the sale of merchandise for personal use, refreshments, etc.
- basic plumage — the plumage assumed by an adult bird at its complete, usually annual, molt.
- beige toaster — Macintosh
- belligerently — aggressively
- bergen-belsen — Belsen.
- bevelled edge — an inclined edge; one not at 90 degrees
- beverage room — a room in a tavern, hotel, etc, in which alcoholic drinks are served
- bible college — an institution of higher education that specializes in Bible study, typically for the education of Protestant clergy
- bibliogenesis — the art of producing and publishing books.
- bioenergetics — the study of energy transformations in living organisms and systems
- biogeneticist — genetic engineering.
- biogeographer — a person who is knowledgeable about biogeography
- birefringence — the splitting of a light ray, generally by a crystal, into two components that travel at different velocities and are polarized at right angles to each other
- bitonal image — (graphics) An image consisting only of a foreground colour and a background colour. Compare monochrome.
- bitter orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
- blastogenesis — the theory that inherited characteristics are transmitted only by germ plasm
- bleeding edge — If you are at the bleeding edge of a particular field of activity, you are involved in its most advanced or most exciting developments.
- blood sausage — a kind of black sausage made from minced pork fat, pig's blood, and other ingredients
- body language — Your body language is the way in which you show your feelings or thoughts to other people by means of the position or movements of your body, rather than with words.
- boiling range — A boiling range is the temperature range involved in the distillation of oil, from the start to the time when it evaporates.
- booking agent — an agent who makes bookings, as reservations for travel or the theater or engagements for performers, for clients.
- boole, george — George Boole
- borage family — any member of the plant family Boraginaceae, typified by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having simple, alternate, hairy leaves and usually blue, five-lobed flowers in a cluster that uncoils as they bloom, including borage, bugloss, and forget-me-not.
- boring sponge — any of a family (Clionidae) of sponges that settle on and dissolve the shells of clams
- bourdon gauge — a type of aneroid pressure gauge consisting of a flattened curved tube attached to a pointer that moves around a dial. As the pressure in the tube increases the tube tends to straighten and the pointer indicates the applied pressure
- brain surgeon — a surgeon who specializes in brain surgery
- brain surgery — operation on the brain
- brain-damaged — Someone who is brain-damaged has suffered brain damage.
- brand manager — the person responsible for the marketing of a particular brand
- bridge player — a person who plays the game of bridge
- 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
- build bridges — to promote reconciliation or cooperation between hostile groups or people
- burgess shale — a bed of Cambrian sedimentary rock in the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia containing many unique invertebrate fossils
- butterfingers — a person who drops things inadvertently or fails to catch things
- cabbage aphid — a small, blue aphid, Brevicoryne brassicae, that feeds on cabbage and related plants.
- 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
- cache storage — cache (def 3).
- cage fighting — Cage fighting is a type of organized violent fighting that takes place in an enclosed space.
- canonical age — the age specified by canon law when a person becomes eligible to participate in a certain rite or hold a certain office.
- canton ginger — preserved or crystallized ginger of fine quality.
- capsule range — a small range of clothes by a particular designer, intended to be representative of the full range
- cariogenicity — conducive to the production or promotion of dental caries: the cariogenic factors in sweets.
- 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
- carriage bolt — a round-headed bolt for timber, threaded along part of its shank, inserted into holes already drilled.
- cartridge pen — a pen having a removable ink reservoir that is replaced when empty