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14-letter words containing b, e, g, r

  • neubrandenburg — a city in Mecklenburg–West Pomerania, in NE Germany.
  • neurobiologist — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
  • nonbelligerent — of or relating to a country whose status or policy is one of nonbelligerency.
  • nursing bottle — a bottle with a rubber nipple, from which an infant sucks milk, water, etc.
  • object program — a computer program translated from the equivalent source program into machine language by the compiler or assembler
  • obligatoriness — The quality or state of being obligatory.
  • omega-c baryon — a neutral baryon having a mass 5292 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 6.4 X 10 -14 seconds.
  • opening bowler — a player who makes the first bowl in cricket
  • orange blossom — the white flower of an orange tree, especially of the genus Citrus, much used in wreaths, bridal bouquets, etc.: the state flower of Florida.
  • partridgeberry — a North American trailing plant, Mitchella repens, of the madder family, having roundish evergreen leaves, fragrant white flowers, and scarlet berries.
  • pilgrim bottle — a flat-sided water bottle having two loops at the side of a short neck for a suspending cord or chain.
  • pocket borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough whose representatives in Parliament were controlled by an individual or family.
  • pontoon bridge — a bridge supported by pontoons.
  • porgy and bess — an opera (1935) with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin.
  • press briefing — a meeting called by an organization, government, etc, to inform the press of something
  • progress board — a department of an organization, company, etc, that oversees and ensures progress, advance or development
  • public gallery — the gallery in a chamber of Parliament reserved for members of the public who wish to listen to the proceedings
  • quarterbacking — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
  • rabble-rousing — of, relating to, or characteristic of a rabble-rouser.
  • racing bicycle — a bicycle designed for cycling on roads or taking part in road cycling races
  • railway bridge — a bridge built to carry a railway over a road, river, etc
  • rainbow bridge — a natural stone bridge in S Utah: a national monument. 290 feet (88 meters) high; 275 feet (84 meters) span.
  • rammelsbergite — a mineral, essentially nickel diarsenide, NiAs 2 .
  • re-eligibility — the quality or state of being re-eligible
  • refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
  • registrability — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
  • reprogrammable — capable of being programmed.
  • retail banking — banking for individual customers
  • right of abode — If someone is given the right of abode in a particular country, they are legally allowed to live there.
  • roller bandage — a long bandage rolled into a cylinder
  • roller bearing — a bearing consisting of cylindrical or tapered rollers running between races in two concentric rings, one of which is mounted on a rotating or oscillating part, as a shaft.
  • root vegetable — edible starchy tuber
  • rotten borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough that had very few voters yet was represented in Parliament.
  • running battle — When two groups of people fight a running battle, they keep attacking each other in various parts of a place.
  • 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.
  • saxe-altenburg — a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
  • scrambled eggs — scrambled eggs are eggs that are mixed together and then cooked in butter.
  • sea gooseberry — a comb jelly, especially of the genus Pleurobrachia.
  • sergeant baker — a large brightly-coloured fish of the genus Latropiscis, found in temperate reef waters of Australasia
  • serum globulin — the blood serum component consisting of proteins with a larger molecular weight than serum albumin
  • serve sb right — If you say it serves someone right when something unpleasant happens to them, you mean that it is their own fault and you have no sympathy for them.
  • shooting brake — station wagon.
  • single bedroom — a bedroom that is intended to accommodate a single bed and occupancy of one person
  • sitting member — a current member of parliament
  • sleeping berth — a bunk for sleeping on on a train or boat
  • sovereign debt — the debt of a national government, esp debt that is issued in a foreign currency
  • 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
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