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12-letter words containing a, g, o

  • boilermaking — metal-working in heavy industry; plating or welding
  • bombe glacée — a dessert of ice cream lined or filled with custard, cake crumbs, etc
  • bond washing — a series of deals in bonds made with the intention of avoiding taxation
  • bonnet glass — monteith (def 2).
  • bonnet-glass — a large punch bowl, usually of silver, having a notched rim for suspending punch cups.
  • boogie board — a small, flexible plastic surfboard, ridden lying down.
  • boolean ring — a nonempty collection of sets having the properties that the union of two sets of the collection is a set in the collection and that the relative complement of each set with respect to any other set is in the collection.
  • boomeranging — a bent or curved piece of tough wood used by the Australian Aborigines as a throwing club, one form of which can be thrown so as to return to the thrower.
  • bootleg play — a play in which the quarterback pretends to hand the ball to a teammate, hides it by placing it next to his hip, and runs with it.
  • border guard — a guard stationed on a border between countries
  • born-digital — relating to or noting documents, images, etc., that are created and managed in electronic form: electronic preservation of born-digital content; a born-digital e-book that will not be available in print.
  • borough hall — a building housing the administrative offices of a borough.
  • bottle glass — glass used for making bottles, consisting of a silicate of sodium, calcium, and aluminium
  • bottom grass — any grass that grows on bottoms or lowlands.
  • bougainville — an island in the W Pacific, in Papua New Guinea: the largest of the Solomon Islands: unilaterally declared independence in 1990; occupied by government troops in 1992, and granted autonomy in 2001. Chief town: Kieta. Area: 10 049 sq km (3880 sq miles)
  • 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).
  • bowling ball — a round, heavy ball for bowling, usually made of hard rubber or plastic, with holes drilled into it for the bowler's thumb and two fingers.
  • box magazine — a rectangular cartridge holder in a submachine or light machine gun.
  • boxgrove man — a type of primitive man, probably Homo heidelbergensis, and probably dating from the Middle Palaeolithic period some 500 000 years ago; remains were found at Boxgrove in West Sussex in 1993 and 1995
  • boxing match — a competition between two boxers
  • braggadocios — empty boasting; bragging.
  • break ground — to do something that has not been done before
  • breakthrough — A breakthrough is an important development or achievement.
  • breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
  • breath group — a sequence of sounds articulated in the course of a single exhalation; an utterance or part of an utterance produced between pauses for breath.
  • bring action — to start a lawsuit
  • bring around — If you bring someone around when they are unconscious, you make them become conscious again.
  • 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.
  • brooks range — a mountain range in N Alaska. Highest peak: Mount Isto, 2761 m (9058 ft)
  • brown bag it — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
  • brown bagger — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
  • buccolingual — of or relating to the cheek and tongue.
  • 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.
  • bur marigold — any plant of the genus Bidens that has yellow flowers and pointed fruits that cling to fur and clothing: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • burglarproof — safeguarded or secure against burglary.
  • 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 rose — a rose, Rosa centifolia, with a round compact full-petalled head
  • cabriole leg — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
  • 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
  • caliginosity — darkness
  • camouflaging — Present participle of camouflage.
  • camphorating — Present participle of camphorate.
  • campo grande — a city in SW Brazil, capital of Mato Grosso do Sul state on the São Paulo–Corumbá railway: market centre. Pop: 746 000 (2005 est)
  • canada goose — A Canada goose is a grayish-brown wild goose that comes from North America.
  • canned goods — tinned food produce
  • canyoneering — (US) Canyoning, a hybrid outdoor sport involving the traversal of river canyons.
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