12-letter words containing b, i, g, n
- 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.
- bronchogenic — bronchial in origin
- brown bag it — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
- brown-nosing — If you accuse someone of brown-nosing, you are saying in a rather offensive way that they are agreeing with someone important in order to get their support.
- buccaneering — If you describe someone as buccaneering, you mean that they enjoy being involved in risky or even dishonest activities, especially in order to make money.
- buccolingual — of or relating to the cheek and tongue.
- bull-baiting — the setting of dogs on a chained or confined bull, formerly a popular pastime in England
- bullfighting — Bullfighting is the public entertainment in which people try to kill bulls in bullfights.
- bumping race — (esp at Oxford and Cambridge) a race in which rowing eights start an equal distance one behind the other and each tries to bump the boat in front
- burning bush — a rutaceous shrub, Dictamnus fraxinella, of S Europe and Asia, whose glands release a volatile inflammable oil that can burn without harming the plant: identified as the bush from which God spoke to Moses (Exodus 3:2–4)
- burning ghat — a platform at the top of a riverside ghat where Hindus cremate their dead.
- bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
- bushfighting — fighting in the bush
- bushwhacking — to make one's way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc.
- butter icing — a mixture of butter and icing sugar used for filling or topping cakes
- buttonholing — the hole, slit, or loop through which a button is passed and by which it is secured.
- buying group — an association of companies who use their combined purchasing power to achieve the best prices from suppliers
- buying order — an order to buy a certain security
- buying power — the amount of services or goods a company, person, group or currency is able to purchase
- buying spree — the hurried acquisition by a company, of goods, assets, or other companies
- buying-power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
- cable-laying — involved in or connected to the activity of laying cables
- cablecasting — relating to broadcasting by cable
- cantabrigian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Cambridge or Cambridge University, or of Cambridge, Massachusetts, or Harvard University
- carbonadoing — Present participle of carbonado.
- cardigan bay — an inlet of St George's Channel, on the W coast of Wales
- changing bag — a lightproof bag with openings made to fit closely around the arms, used in place of a darkroom in some photographic procedures.
- charbroiling — Present participle of charbroil.
- childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
- chinning bar — a piece of equipment used for doing pull-ups
- cirl bunting — a European passerine bird Emberiza cirlus, of the bunting family Emberizidae
- clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
- climbingfish — climbing perch.
- coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
- cohabitating — cohabit.
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- conglobation — Formation into a ball, globe or rounded mass.
- contributing — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
- corn bunting — a heavily built European songbird, Emberiza calandra, with a streaked brown plumage: family Emberizidae (buntings)
- crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
- crossbarring — stripes, esp those of an animal
- cryoglobulin — an abnormal immunoglobulin, present in the blood in certain diseases, that precipitates below about 10°C, obstructing small blood vessels in the fingers and toes
- currycombing — Present participle of currycomb.
- cybercasting — the broadcasting of news, entertainment, etc., using the Internet, specifically the World Wide Web.
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- cybersurfing — The practice of using and browsing the Internet, especially as a habitual pastime.
- debilitating — tending to weaken or enfeeble
- debut single — the first single produced by a particular singer or band
- deliberating — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.