14-letter words containing b, e, n, t, g
- gordon bennett — an exclamation of surprise
- grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
- hague tribunal — the court of arbitration for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, established at The Hague by the international peace conference of 1899: its panel of jurists nominates a list of persons from which members of the United Nations International Court of Justice are elected.
- 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.
- impregnability — strong enough to resist or withstand attack; not to be taken by force, unconquerable: an impregnable fort.
- in the bargain — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
- interblock gap — the area or space separating consecutive blocks of data or consecutive physical records on an external storage medium.
- interchangable — Misspelling of interchangeable.
- king of beasts — the lion.
- knee-trembling — very exciting
- left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
- little bighorn — a river flowing N from N Wyoming to S Montana into the Bighorn River: General Custer and troops defeated near its juncture by Indians 1876. 80 miles (130 km) long.
- margaret brent — Margaret, 1600?–1671? U.S. colonial landowner, born in England: regarded as an early feminist.
- methaemoglobin — a brownish compound of oxygen and hemoglobin, formed in the blood, as by the use of certain drugs.
- natural bridge — a natural limestone bridge in western Virginia. 215 feet (66 meters) high; 90 feet (27 meters) span.
- neurobiologist — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
- non-negotiable — capable of being negotiated: a negotiable salary demand.
- 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.
- obligatoriness — The quality or state of being obligatory.
- opening gambit — a preliminary or opening tactic
- pontoon bridge — a bridge supported by pontoons.
- quarterbacking — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
- refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
- retail banking — banking for individual customers
- 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.
- sergeant baker — a large brightly-coloured fish of the genus Latropiscis, found in temperate reef waters of Australasia
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.