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

  • flabbergasting — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • flowering crab — any of several species and varieties of crab apple trees with small fruits and abundant spring flowers ranging from white to reddish purple
  • folies bergere — a Parisian music hall founded in 1869 and noted for the lavish spectacle and mildly risqué content of its entertainments.
  • forbidden city — a walled section of Peking, built in the 15th century, containing the imperial palace and other buildings of the imperial government of China.
  • force of habit — behavior occurring without thought and by virtue of constant repetition; habit.
  • forcible entry — entry into a building by force, eg by forcing a lock
  • foreseeability — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
  • formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
  • fraise du bois — a wild strawberry.
  • fredericksburg — a city in NE Virginia, on the Rappahannock River: scene of a Confederate victory 1862.
  • free as a bird — really free
  • free vibration — the vibration of a structure that occurs at its natural frequency, as opposed to a forced vibration
  • fringe benefit — any of various benefits, as free life or health insurance, paid holidays, a pension, etc., received by an employee in addition to regular pay.
  • front side bus — (hardware)   (FSB) The bus via which a processor communicates with its RAM and chipset; one half of the Dual Independent Bus (the other half being the backside bus). The L2 cache is usually on the FSB, unless it is on the same chip as the processor [example?]. In PCI systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed. Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two main ways of overclocking processors.
  • gabriel marcel — Gabriel [ga-bree-el] /ga briˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1887–1973, French philosopher, dramatist, and critic.
  • gabriel tellez — (Gabriel Téllez) 1571?–1648, Spanish dramatist.
  • garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
  • gay liberation — a political and social movement to combat legal and social discrimination against homosexuals.
  • gender-bending — Informal. one, as a cross-dresser, that blurs differences between the sexes.
  • general public — people in general
  • gilbert patten — Gilbert ("Burt L. Standish") 1866–1945, U.S. writer of adventure stories.
  • girls' brigade — (in Britain) an organization for girls, founded in 1893, with the aim of promoting self-discipline and self-respect
  • give sb a ring — If you give someone a ring, you phone them.
  • governing body — board, regulatory authority
  • great zimbabwe — Formerly Southern Rhodesia, Rhodesia. a republic in S Africa: a former British colony and part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; gained independence 1980. 150,330 sq. mi. (389,362 sq. km). Capital: Harare.
  • groundbreaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
  • 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.
  • haberdasheries — Plural form of haberdashery.
  • 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.
  • hair's breadth — A hair's breadth is a very small degree or amount.
  • hair's-breadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
  • harriet tubman — Harriet (Araminta) 1820?–1913, U.S. abolitionist: escaped slave and leader of the Underground Railroad; served as a Union scout during Civil War.
  • heath robinson — (of a mechanical device) absurdly complicated in design and having a simple function
  • hebrew-aramaic — a mixture of Hebrew and Jewish Aramaic
  • heidelberg jaw — a human lower jaw of early middle Pleistocene age found in 1907 near Heidelberg, Germany.
  • heidelberg man — the primitive human being reconstructed from the Heidelberg jaw.
  • hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
  • hereditability — heritable.
  • hermit warbler — a common wood warbler (Dendroica occidentalis) of W North America, with a yellow-and-black head, a gray back, and white underparts
  • heteroflexible — (of a person) predominantly heterosexual but not exclusively so
  • hit the bricks — a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
  • huckleberrying — the activity of gathering huckleberries
  • hybrid testing — (testing)   A combination of top-down testing with bottom-up testing of prioritised or available components.
  • hybrid vehicle — A hybrid vehicle is a vehicle using two different forms of power, such as an electric motor and an internal combustion engine, or an electric motor with a battery and fuel cells for energy storage.
  • hybrid warfare — a military strategy in which conventional warfare is integrated with tactics such as covert operations and cyberattacks
  • hydroxybenzoic — (organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to hydroxybenzoic acid or its derivatives.
  • hyperbarically — in a hyperbaric manner
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