14-letter words containing a, b, i, g, s
- rabble-rousing — of, relating to, or characteristic of a rabble-rouser.
- rammelsbergite — a mineral, essentially nickel diarsenide, NiAs 2 .
- registrability — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
- saber rattling — a show or threat of military power, especially as used by a nation to impose its policies on other countries.
- saber-rattling — a show or threat of military power, especially as used by a nation to impose its policies on other countries.
- sabre-rattling — If you describe a threat, especially a threat of military action, as sabre-rattling, you do not believe that the threat will actually be carried out.
- salvageability — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
- sb will go far — If you say that someone will go far, you mean that they will be very successful in their career.
- scribbling pad — a notebook or sketchbook
- shabby-looking — appearing old and in bad condition
- shooting brake — station wagon.
- skirting board — fabric for making skirts.
- snowball fight — game: throwing balls of snow
- sounding board — a thin, resonant plate of wood forming part of a musical instrument, and so placed as to enhance the power and quality of the tone.
- spiral binding — a binding, as for a notebook or booklet, in which the pages are fastened together by a spiral of wire or plastic that coils through a series of holes punched along one side of each page and the front and back covers.
- spitting cobra — any cobra or cobralike snake, especially the ringhals, that sprays venom at the eyes of approaching animals.
- spread betting — Spread betting is a form of gambling that involves predicting a range of possible scores or results rather than one particular score or result.
- spring balance — a device in which an object to be weighed is attached to the end of a helical spring, the extension of which indicates the weight of the object on a calibrated scale
- springboarding — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
- square-bashing — drill on a barrack square
- stabbing board — A stabbing board is a platform in the derrick, on which the derrickhand stands to run in casing.
- stage business — business (def 10).
- staggering bob — a newborn calf.
- starting block — a device used by runners, especially sprinters, for increasing their speed off the mark, consisting of a metal or wooden frame, usually secured to the ground at both ends, with adjustable, triangular-shaped blocks on each side for bracing the feet.
- strikebreaking — action directed at breaking up a strike of workers.
- sturmabteilung — a political militia of the Nazi party, organized about 1923 and notorious for its violence and terrorism up to 1934, when it was purged and reorganized as an instrument of physical training and political indoctrination of German men; Brown Shirts.
- subaggregation — a subtotalling
- subcontracting — outsourcing of contract work
- subgenerically — in a subgeneric manner; in a way relating to a subgenus
- submachine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
- sugar diabetes — diabetes mellitus
- swimming baths — an indoor swimming pool
- thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
- tunguska basin — large coal basin in central Siberia, between the Yenisei & Lena rivers: it is drained by three rivers, the Lower Tunguska, Stony Tunguska, & Upper Tunguska (usually called the Angara River), which flow west into the Yenisei
- vegetable dish — a dish designed to serve vegetables from
- vegetable silk — a fine, glossy fiber, similar to silk cotton, from the seeds of a spiny Brazilian tree, Chorisia speciosa.
- webliographies — Plural form of webliography.
- william gibson — (person) Author of cyberpunk novels such as Neuromancer (1984), Count Zero (1986), Mona Lisa Overdrive, and Virtual Light (1993). Neuromancer, a novel about a computer hacker/criminal "cowboy" of the future helping to free an artificial intelligence from its programmed bounds, won the Hugo and Nebula science fiction awards and is credited as the seminal cyberpunk novel and the origin of the term "cyberspace". Gibson does not have a technical background and supposedly purchased his first computer in 1992.
- zebra crossing — a street crossing marked with white stripes.
- zingiberaceous — belonging to the Zingiberaceae, the ginger family of plants.