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

  • false beginner — a language student who has some knowledge of a language, but who needs to start again from the beginning
  • flabbergasting — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • flabberghasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabberghast.
  • garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
  • ghetto blaster — a large, powerful portable radio, especially as carried and played by a pedestrian or used outdoors in an urban area.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • goose barnacle — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
  • governableness — The state of being governable.
  • 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.
  • half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
  • magdeburg laws — the local laws of the city of Magdeburg, which were adopted by many European cities in the middle ages
  • marriage bonds — the strong feeling of being united that is associated with marriage
  • megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
  • negri sembilan — a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 2580 sq. mi. (6682 sq. km). Capital: Seremban.
  • obligatoriness — The quality or state of being obligatory.
  • 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.
  • porgy and bess — an opera (1935) with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin.
  • progress board — a department of an organization, company, etc, that oversees and ensures progress, advance or development
  • rabble-rousing — of, relating to, or characteristic of a rabble-rouser.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • shooting brake — station wagon.
  • 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
  • square-bashing — drill on a barrack square
  • 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.
  • subaggregation — a subtotalling
  • subgenerically — in a subgeneric manner; in a way relating to a subgenus
  • sugar diabetes — diabetes mellitus
  • tensor bandage — a wide elasticized bandage that supports injured joints
  • thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
  • webliographies — Plural form of webliography.
  • zebra crossing — a street crossing marked with white stripes.
  • zingiberaceous — belonging to the Zingiberaceae, the ginger family of plants.
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