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16-letter words containing b, e, t, a, g

  • daylight robbery — If someone charges you a great deal of money for something and you think this is unfair or unreasonable, you can refer to this as daylight robbery.
  • dearborn heights — city in SE Mich.: suburb of Detroit: pop. 58,000
  • debating chamber — a room where a legislative assembly holds debates
  • debating society — a club, e.g. at a school or university, which regularly holds debates
  • double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
  • draw the longbow — to exaggerate in telling something
  • duplicate bridge — a form of contract bridge used in tournaments in which contestants play the identical series of deals, with each deal being scored independently, permitting individual scores to be compared.
  • east gwillimbury — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • eastern kingbird — any of several American tyrant flycatchers of the genus Tyrannus, especially T. tyrannus (eastern kingbird) of North America, known for their pugnacious disposition toward predators.
  • flabbergastation — (colloquial) Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted.
  • flabbergastingly — Surprisingly, astonishingly or amazingly.
  • four-masted brig — jackass bark (def 2).
  • freeboard length — the length of a vessel, measured on the summer load line from the fore side of the stem to some part of the stern, usually the after side of the rudderpost.
  • galvanic battery — battery (def 1a).
  • generalisability — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizability.
  • generalizability — The quality of being generalizable.
  • gingerbread tree — a W African tree, Parinari macrophyllum, with large mealy edible fruits (gingerbread plums): family Chrysobalanaceae
  • globular cluster — a comparatively older, spherically symmetrical, compact group of up to a million old stars, held together by mutual gravitation, that are located in the galactic halo and move in giant and highly eccentric orbits around the galactic center.
  • grant of probate — a certificate stating that a will is valid
  • great blue heron — a large American heron, Ardea herodias, having bluish-gray plumage.
  • green vegetables — green edible plants
  • grin and bear it — to suffer trouble or hardship without complaint
  • ground substance — Also called matrix. the homogeneous substance in which the fibers and cells of connective tissue are embedded.
  • growth substance — any substance, produced naturally by a plant or manufactured commercially, that, in very low concentrations, affects plant growth; a plant hormone
  • have a big mouth — to speak indiscreetly, loudly, or excessively
  • hemangioblastoma — (medicine) Any of several benign neoplasm tumours of the brain.
  • huntington beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
  • indefatigability — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
  • inextinguishable — not extinguishable: an inextinguishable fire.
  • inextinguishably — In a way that cannot be extinguished; immortally.
  • interest-bearing — paying interest
  • into the bargain — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
  • knowledgeability — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • labour agreement — a contract between workers and managers setting out working conditions, wages, etc
  • large-print book — a book where the text is printed in larger text than normal, so as to make it easier to read, esp for the visually impaired
  • latent ambiguity — uncertainty that arises when a seemingly clear written instrument is matched against an extrinsic fact, as when a description of something being sold fits two different items.
  • leaf-cutting bee — any of the bees of the family Megachilidae that cut circular pieces from leaves or flowers to line their nests.
  • leveraged buyout — the purchase of a company with borrowed money, using the company's assets as collateral, and often discharging the debt and realizing a profit by liquidating the company. Abbreviation: LBO.
  • like gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
  • long-established — having a long history; old
  • magnetic bearing — the bearing of a point relative to that of the nearest magnetic pole.
  • margaret drabble — Margaret, born 1939, English novelist.
  • marine biologist — scientist who studies sea life
  • megakaryoblastic — (cytology) Of or pertaining to a megakaryoblast.
  • molybdate orange — a pigment consisting of a solid solution of sulfate, molybdate, and chromate compounds of lead.
  • montagu's blenny — a small blenny, Coryphoblennius galerita, found among rocks in shallow water
  • narragansett bay — an inlet of the Atlantic in E Rhode Island. 28 miles (45 km) long.
  • nitrogen balance — the difference between the amount of nitrogen taken in and the amount excreted or lost: used to evaluate nutritional balance.
  • non-debilitating — to make weak or feeble; enfeeble: The siege of pneumonia debilitated her completely.
  • northanger abbey — a novel (1818) by Jane Austen.
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