14-letter words containing b, e, g, t, i
- right of abode — If someone is given the right of abode in a particular country, they are legally allowed to live there.
- 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.
- salvageability — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
- 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.
- 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.
- stage business — business (def 10).
- staggering bob — a newborn calf.
- 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
- sugar diabetes — diabetes mellitus
- suggestibility — subject to or easily influenced by suggestion.
- suggestion box — receptacle for customers' comments
- tablet coating — A tablet coating is a covering over a tablet, used to mask the taste, make it easier to swallow, or protect the active medication inside.
- tenpin bowling — Tenpin bowling is a game in which you roll a heavy ball down a narrow track toward a group of wooden objects and try to knock down as many of them as possible.
- the betting is — If you say the betting is that something will happen or is true, you are suggesting that it is very likely to happen or to be true.
- the mabinogion — a collection of Welsh tales based on old Celtic legends and mythology in which magic and the supernatural play a large part
- the-mabinogion — a collection of medieval Welsh romances that were translated (1838–49) by Lady Charlotte Guest.
- through bridge — a bridge in which the track is carried by the lower horizontal members
- thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
- to be bursting — to want desperately to urinate
- to ring a bell — If you say that something rings a bell, you mean that it reminds you of something, but you cannot remember exactly what it is.
- training table — a table in a dining hall, as at a college, where athletes are provided with special meals to aid their conditioning.
- tunbridge ware — decorative wooden ware, including tables, trays, boxes, and ornamental objects, produced especially in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Tunbridge Wells, England, with mosaiclike marquetry sawed from square-sectioned wooden rods of different natural colors.
- turbine engine — a rotary engine that converts kinetic energy of a moving fluid (water, steam, air, or combustion products of a fuel) into mechanical energy
- turnip cabbage — kohlrabi.
- unintelligible — not intelligible; not capable of being understood.
- unintelligibly — not intelligible; not capable of being understood.
- upgradeability — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
- vaginal tablet — A vaginal tablet is a tablet inserted into the vagina to treat infection.
- 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.
- whistleblowing — The disclosure to the public or to authorities, usually by an employee, of wrongdoing in a company or government department.
- witchetty grub — the large white larva of any of several species of moth and beetle of Australia, especially of the moth genus Cossus, occurring in decaying wood and traditionally used as food by Aborigines.
- with bad grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
- zygobranchiate — of or relating to zygobranchs or the Zygobranchia genus
- zygomatic bone — a bone on each side of the face below the eye, forming the prominence of the cheek; cheekbone.