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12-letter words containing ge

  • balladmonger — (formerly) a seller of ballads, esp on broadsheets
  • bandy-legged — bow-legged
  • bank charges — penalties charged by a bank to a customer, for example when the customer's account is overdrawn or if a cheque is not honoured
  • bank manager — A bank manager is someone who is in charge of a bank, or a particular branch of a bank, and who is involved in making decisions about whether or not to lend money to businesses and individuals.
  • barcalounger — a type of reclinable armchair with an extendable footrest
  • barge couple — either of a pair of outside rafters along the gable end of a roof
  • barge course — the overhang of the gable end of a roof
  • baton charge — A baton charge is an attacking forward movement made by a large group of policemen carrying batons.
  • batting cage — a screen with three sides and a top, in which batters practice: it keeps missed and fouled pitches within its enclosure
  • beef sausage — a sausage made of beef rather than pork
  • belligerence — the act or quality of being belligerent or warlike; aggressiveness
  • belligerency — the state of being at war
  • belligerents — warlike; given to waging war.
  • bengal tiger — a large tiger found in S. Asia
  • berlichingen — Götz von (ɡœts fɔn), called the Iron Hand. 1480–1562, German warrior knight, who robbed merchants and kidnapped nobles for ransom
  • bible banger — Bible-thumper.
  • bible-banger — Bible-thumper.
  • biflagellate — having two flagella
  • binge eating — the practice of eating excessive amounts of food over a short period of time
  • biogeography — the branch of biology concerned with the geographical distribution of plants and animals
  • biting midge — any small fragile dipterous fly of the family Ceratopogonidae, most of which suck the blood of mammals, birds, or other insects
  • biting stage — the second part of the oral phase of psychosexual development, approximately 8 to18 months of age, during which a child has the urge to bite or chew objects.
  • blaze orange — a very bright orange, as on a traffic cone.
  • blind flange — a disk for closing the end of a pipe, having holes for bolting it to a flange.
  • blitzkrieged — blitz (defs 1, 2, 5).
  • blood orange — a variety of orange all or part of the pulp of which is dark red when ripe
  • bonnet rouge — a red cap worn by ardent supporters of the French Revolution
  • boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
  • bound charge — any electric charge that is bound to an atom or molecule (opposed to free charge).
  • bourgeoisify — to convert to a bourgeois attitude or appearance
  • brain damage — If someone suffers brain damage, their brain is damaged by an illness or injury so that they cannot function normally.
  • breckinridge — John Cabell1821-75; vice president of the U.S. (1857-61); Confederate general
  • bridge a gap — to remedy a deficiency
  • bridge chair — a lightweight folding chair, often part of a set of matching chairs and bridge table.
  • bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
  • bridge house — a deckhouse including a bridge or bridges for navigation.
  • bridge party — a gathering for the purpose of playing bridge
  • bridge table — a square card table with folding legs.
  • bronchogenic — bronchial in origin
  • brooks range — a mountain range in N Alaska. Highest peak: Mount Isto, 2761 m (9058 ft)
  • brown bagger — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
  • bugger about — If someone buggers about or buggers around, they waste time doing unnecessary things.
  • burnt orange — of a dark orange colour, sometimes due to calcination of orange pigment
  • by and large — You use by and large to indicate that a statement is mostly but not completely true.
  • cabbage moth — a common brownish noctuid moth, Mamestra brassicae, the larva of which is destructive of cabbages and other plants
  • cabbage palm — a West Indian palm, Roystonea (or Oreodoxa) oleracea, whose leaf buds are eaten like cabbage
  • cabbage rose — a rose, Rosa centifolia, with a round compact full-petalled head
  • cabbage tree — a tree, Cordyline australis, of New Zealand having a tall branchless trunk and a palmlike top
  • caenogenesis — the development of structures and organs in an embryo or larva that are adaptations to its way of life and are not retained in the adult form
  • cage cricket — a form of cricket played in an enclosed space, in which six players compete as individuals
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