16-letter words containing b, a, r, g, i

burnet saxifrage — a Eurasian umbelliferous plant of the genus Pimpinella, having umbrella-like clusters of white or pink flowers
business manager — a person who ensures the running of a business by managing the work of relevant staff
buying behaviour — the behaviours displayed by consumers when they purchase things, such as preferences, price points, etc
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.
cigarette beetle — a small cylindrical beetle, Lasioderma serricorne, that is a pest, especially of dried tobacco.
circumambulating — Present participle of circumambulate.
combination drug — a medication comprised of set dosages of two or more separate drugs.
come/bring alive — If a story or description comes alive, it becomes interesting, lively, or realistic. If someone or something brings it alive, they make it seem more interesting, lively, or realistic.
congeliturbation — the churning, heaving, and thrusting of soil material due to the action of frost.
counterbalancing — Present participle of counterbalance.
cyanogen bromide — a colorless, slightly water-soluble, poisonous, volatile, crystalline solid, BrCN, used chiefly as a fumigant and a pesticide.
dabrowa gornicza — an industrial city in S Poland.
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.
de broglie waves — the set of waves that represent the behaviour of an elementary particle, or some atoms and molecules, under certain conditions. The de Broglie wavelength, λ, is given by λ = h/mv, where h is the Planck constant, m the mass, and v the velocity of the particle
dearborn heights — city in SE Mich.: suburb of Detroit: pop. 58,000
debating chamber — a room where a legislative assembly holds debates
disagreeableness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being disagreeable.
division algebra — a linear algebra in which each element of the vector space has a multiplicative inverse.
double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
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.
eclipsing binary — a variable star whose changes in brightness are caused by periodic eclipses of two stars in a binary system.
economic embargo — a legal stoppage of commerce, usually taken by one nation or group of nations to harm the economy of another nation or group, often to force a political change
flabbergastation — (colloquial) Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted.
flabbergastingly — Surprisingly, astonishingly or amazingly.
four-deal bridge — a version of bridge in which four hands only are played, the players then cutting for new partners
four-masted brig — jackass bark (def 2).
gabriel, richard — Richard Gabriel
galvanic battery — battery (def 1a).
garbage disposal — A garbage disposal or a garbage disposal unit is a small machine in the kitchen sink that breaks down waste matter so that it does not block the sink.
generalisability — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizability.
generalizability — The quality of being generalizable.
gibberellic acid — a gibberellin C 18 H 21 O 4 COOH, produced as a metabolite by the fungus Gibberella fujikuroi, used as a stimulator of plant growth.
gingerbread palm — doom palm.
gingerbread plum — a tree, Neocarya macrophylla, of western Africa, bearing a large, edible, starchy fruit.
gingerbread tree — a W African tree, Parinari macrophyllum, with large mealy edible fruits (gingerbread plums): family Chrysobalanaceae
globigerina ooze — a calcareous deposit occurring upon ocean beds and consisting mainly of the shells of dead foraminifers, especially globigerina.
granville-barker — Harley, 1877–1946, English dramatist, actor, and critic.
grin and bear it — to suffer trouble or hardship without complaint
hanging wardrobe — a wardrobe containing a rail with a large amount of space underneath, so that clothes can be hung on hangers placed onto the rail
hebbian learning — (artificial intelligence) The most common way to train a neural network; a kind of unsupervised learning; named after canadian neuropsychologist, Donald O. Hebb. The algorithm is based on Hebb's Postulate, which states that where one cell's firing repeatedly contributes to the firing of another cell, the magnitude of this contribution will tend to increase gradually with time. This means that what may start as little more than a coincidental relationship between the firing of two nearby neurons becomes strongly causal. Despite limitations with Hebbian learning, e.g., the inability to learn certain patterns, variations such as Signal Hebbian Learning and Differential Hebbian Learning are still used.
herringbone gear — a helical gear having teeth that lie on the pitch cylinder in a V -shaped form so that one half of each tooth is on a right-handed helix and the other half on a left-handed helix.
horseback riding — activity: riding a horse
imaginary number — Also called imaginary, pure imaginary number. a complex number having its real part equal to zero.
interest-bearing — paying interest
into the bargain — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
irrefragableness — The quality or degree of being irrefragable.

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