12-letter words containing a, b, g, t
- 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.
- 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.
- buffalo gnat — any of various small North American blood-sucking dipterous insects of the genus Simulium and related genera: family Simuliidae
- bugger about — If someone buggers about or buggers around, they waste time doing unnecessary things.
- bull-baiting — the setting of dogs on a chained or confined bull, formerly a popular pastime in England
- burning ghat — a platform at the top of a riverside ghat where Hindus cremate their dead.
- burnt orange — of a dark orange colour, sometimes due to calcination of orange pigment
- cabbage moth — a common brownish noctuid moth, Mamestra brassicae, the larva of which is destructive of cabbages and other plants
- cabbage tree — a tree, Cordyline australis, of New Zealand having a tall branchless trunk and a palmlike top
- cable length — a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
- cablecasting — relating to broadcasting by cable
- cantabrigian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Cambridge or Cambridge University, or of Cambridge, Massachusetts, or Harvard University
- carpetbagged — Simple past tense and past participle of carpetbag.
- carpetbagger — If you call someone a carpetbagger, you disapprove of them because they are trying to become a politician in an area which is not their home, simply because they think they are more likely to succeed there.
- cobalt green — a medium, yellowish-green color.
- cohabitating — cohabit.
- conglobation — Formation into a ball, globe or rounded mass.
- conglobulate — to form into a globe or ball
- cybercasting — the broadcasting of news, entertainment, etc., using the Internet, specifically the World Wide Web.
- debilitating — tending to weaken or enfeeble
- deliberating — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- diabetogenic — causing or producing diabetes
- dining table — a table, especially one seating several persons, where meals are served and eaten, especially the major or more formal meals.
- disambiguate — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
- double agent — a person who spies on a country while pretending to spy for it.
- draught beer — beer which is stored in bulk, esp in a cask, as opposed to being bottled
- draughtboard — checkerboard (def 1).
- early blight — a disease of plants characterized by leaf spotting, defoliation, and stunted growth, caused by any of several fungi, as Alternaria solani or Cercospora apii.
- east bengali — of or relating to East Bengal (now Bangladesh) or its inhabitants
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- enabling act — a legislative act conferring certain specified powers on a person or organization
- establishing — Present participle of establish.
- exacerbating — Present participle of exacerbate.
- fatigability — susceptible to fatigue.
- fibrillating — Present participle of fibrillate.
- figurability — the quality of being figurable
- fishing boat — vessel: for fishing
- flabagasting — Present participle of flabagast.
- flabbergasts — Plural form of flabbergast.
- flabberghast — (archaic) Alternative form of flabbergast.
- flabergasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabergast.
- float bridge — a bridge, as from a pier to a boat, floating at one end and hinged at the other to permit loading and unloading at any level of water.
- floating rib — one member of the two lowest pairs of ribs, which are attached neither to the sternum nor to the cartilages of other ribs.
- forgeability — (metallurgy) The quality or degree of being forgeable.
- frangibility — The state or quality of being frangible.
- frigate bird — any of several predacious seabirds of the genus Fregata, having fully webbed feet.
- frigatebirds — Plural form of frigatebird.