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16-letter words containing a, b, t, g

  • burnet saxifrage — a Eurasian umbelliferous plant of the genus Pimpinella, having umbrella-like clusters of white or pink flowers
  • cabbage palmetto — a tropical American fan palm, Sabal palmetto, with edible leaf buds and leaves used in thatching
  • cabbage root fly — a dipterous fly, Erioischia brassicae, whose larvae feed on the roots and stems of cabbages and other brassicas: family Muscidae (houseflies, etc)
  • cabbage-tree hat — a broad-brimmed hat made from cabbage-tree leaves.
  • capacity booking — a time when someone has booked the whole of a venue or the maximum amount of something available
  • captive breeding — Captive breeding is the breeding of wild animals in places such as zoos, especially animals which have become rare in the wild.
  • carbon 14 dating — radiocarbon dating.
  • carbon-14 dating — radiocarbon dating.
  • catch sb napping — If someone is caught napping, something happens when they are not prepared for it, although they should have been.
  • champagne bucket — A champagne bucket is a container that holds ice cubes or cold water and ice. You can use it to put bottles of champagne in and keep the champagne cool.
  • chargeable asset — any asset that can give rise to assessment for capital gains tax on its disposal. Exempt assets include principal private residences, cars, investments held in a personal equity plan, and government securities
  • cigarette beetle — a small cylindrical beetle, Lasioderma serricorne, that is a pest, especially of dried tobacco.
  • circumambulating — Present participle of circumambulate.
  • columbia heights — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • combination drug — a medication comprised of set dosages of two or more separate drugs.
  • congeliturbation — the churning, heaving, and thrusting of soil material due to the action of frost.
  • counterbalancing — Present participle of counterbalance.
  • database manager — a person in charge of designing, maintaining, and controlling a database
  • daylight robbery — If someone charges you a great deal of money for something and you think this is unfair or unreasonable, you can refer to this as daylight robbery.
  • dearborn heights — city in SE Mich.: suburb of Detroit: pop. 58,000
  • debating chamber — a room where a legislative assembly holds debates
  • debating society — a club, e.g. at a school or university, which regularly holds debates
  • discombobulating — Present participle of discombobulate.
  • double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
  • draw the longbow — to exaggerate in telling something
  • duplicate bridge — a form of contract bridge used in tournaments in which contestants play the identical series of deals, with each deal being scored independently, permitting individual scores to be compared.
  • east gwillimbury — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • eastern kingbird — any of several American tyrant flycatchers of the genus Tyrannus, especially T. tyrannus (eastern kingbird) of North America, known for their pugnacious disposition toward predators.
  • flabbergastation — (colloquial) Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted.
  • flabbergastingly — Surprisingly, astonishingly or amazingly.
  • four-masted brig — jackass bark (def 2).
  • freeboard length — the length of a vessel, measured on the summer load line from the fore side of the stem to some part of the stern, usually the after side of the rudderpost.
  • galvanic battery — battery (def 1a).
  • generalisability — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizability.
  • generalizability — The quality of being generalizable.
  • gingerbread tree — a W African tree, Parinari macrophyllum, with large mealy edible fruits (gingerbread plums): family Chrysobalanaceae
  • global community — the people or nations of the world, considered as being closely connected by modern telecommunications and as being economically, socially, and politically interdependent
  • globular cluster — a comparatively older, spherically symmetrical, compact group of up to a million old stars, held together by mutual gravitation, that are located in the galactic halo and move in giant and highly eccentric orbits around the galactic center.
  • go out on a limb — say sth daring
  • grant of probate — a certificate stating that a will is valid
  • great blue heron — a large American heron, Ardea herodias, having bluish-gray plumage.
  • green vegetables — green edible plants
  • grin and bear it — to suffer trouble or hardship without complaint
  • ground substance — Also called matrix. the homogeneous substance in which the fibers and cells of connective tissue are embedded.
  • growth substance — any substance, produced naturally by a plant or manufactured commercially, that, in very low concentrations, affects plant growth; a plant hormone
  • gulf of martaban — an inlet of the Bay of Bengal in Myanmar
  • have a big mouth — to speak indiscreetly, loudly, or excessively
  • hemangioblastoma — (medicine) Any of several benign neoplasm tumours of the brain.
  • huntington beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
  • indefatigability — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
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