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14-letter words containing b, e, g, t, s

  • get one's back — situated at or in the rear: at the back door; back fence.
  • ghetto blaster — a large, powerful portable radio, especially as carried and played by a pedestrian or used outdoors in an urban area.
  • give sb notice — If an employer gives an employee notice, the employer tells the employee that he or she must leave his or her job within a short fixed period of time.
  • glauber's salt — the decahydrate form of sodium sulfate, a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na 2 SO 4 ·10H 2 O, used chiefly in textile dyeing and as a cathartic.
  • go gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
  • grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
  • gyrostabiliser — (British spelling) Alternative form of gyrostabilizer.
  • gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
  • gyrostabilizer — a device for stabilizing a seagoing vessel by counteracting its rolling motion from side to side, consisting essentially of a rotating gyroscope weighing about 1 percent of the displacement of the vessel.
  • hanging basket — suspended woven container for plants
  • hybrid testing — (testing)   A combination of top-down testing with bottom-up testing of prioritised or available components.
  • jacobite glass — an English drinking glass of the late 17th or early 18th century, engraved with Jacobite mottoes and symbols.
  • king of beasts — the lion.
  • megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
  • neurobiologist — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
  • nursing bottle — a bottle with a rubber nipple, from which an infant sucks milk, water, etc.
  • obligatoriness — The quality or state of being obligatory.
  • palaebiologist — a person who studies or is an expert in palaebiology
  • paleobiologist — the branch of paleontology dealing with fossil life forms, especially with reference to their origin, structure, evolution, etc.
  • 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.
  • saxe-altenburg — a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
  • sergeant baker — a large brightly-coloured fish of the genus Latropiscis, found in temperate reef waters of Australasia
  • 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.
  • shabby-genteel — trying to maintain dignity and self-respect despite shabbiness.
  • 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.
  • st. petersburg — Also called Russian Empire. Russian Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Capital: St. Petersburg (1703–1917).
  • stage business — business (def 10).
  • staggering bob — a newborn calf.
  • stockbrokerage — a stockbroker's work or business
  • 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.
  • sub-government — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
  • subaggregation — a subtotalling
  • sugar diabetes — diabetes mellitus
  • suggestibility — subject to or easily influenced by suggestion.
  • suggestion box — receptacle for customers' comments
  • tensor bandage — a wide elasticized bandage that supports injured joints
  • 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.
  • thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
  • to be bursting — to want desperately to urinate
  • vegetable dish — a dish designed to serve vegetables from
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