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15-letter words containing b, i, g, s, t

  • get sb into bed — To get someone into bed means to persuade them to have sex with you.
  • gilbert islands — a group of islands in the W Pacific: with Banaba, the Phoenix Islands, and three of the Line Islands they constitute the independent state of Kiribati; until 1975 they formed part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands; achieved full independence in 1979. Pop: 82 902 (2005). Area: 295 sq km (114 sq miles)
  • gyrostabilizers — Plural form of gyrostabilizer.
  • housing benefit — In Britain, housing benefit is money that the government gives to people with no income or very low incomes to pay for part or all of their rent.
  • indigestibility — The state of being indigestible.
  • it's a good job — If you say it's a good thing, or in British English it's a good job, that something is the case, you mean that it is fortunate.
  • label switching — (networking)   A routing technique that uses information from existing IP routing protocols to identify IP datagrams with labels and forwards them to a modified switch or router, which then uses the labels to switch the datagrams through the network. Label switching combines the best attributes of data link layer (layer two) switching (as in ATM and Frame Relay) with the best attributes of network layer (layer three) routing (as in IP). Prior to the formation of the MPLS Working Group in 1997, a number of vendors had announced and/or implemented proprietary label switching.
  • lighthouse tube — a vacuum tube with the electrodes arranged in parallel layers closely spaced, giving a relatively high-power output at high frequencies.
  • listed building — (in Britain) a building officially recognized as having special historical or architectural interest and therefore protected from demolition or alteration
  • microbiologists — Plural form of microbiologist.
  • morale-boosting — A morale-boosting action or event makes people feel more confident and cheerful.
  • neighbor states — the states or countries next to another state or country
  • night blindness — a condition of the eyes in which vision is normal in daylight but abnormally poor at night or in a dim light; nyctalopia.
  • obsidian dating — a method of dating obsidian artifacts or debitage by calculating how long it has taken to produce a given thickness of a hydration layer within such matter.
  • obtuse triangle — a triangle with one obtuse angle.
  • opening batsman — a player who bats the first ball in cricket
  • petit bourgeois — a person who belongs to the petite bourgeoisie.
  • petty bourgeois — petit bourgeois
  • psychobiologist — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
  • registered bond — a bond recorded in the name of the owner.
  • robert guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
  • roger bannister — Sir Roger (Gilbert) born 1929, English track and field athlete: first to run a mile in less than four minutes.
  • self-abnegation — self-denial or self-sacrifice.
  • self-subsisting — to exist; continue in existence.
  • she'll be right — that's all right; not to worry
  • shopping basket — a metal or plastic container with one or two handles, used to carry shopping in a shop
  • single-breasted — (of a coat, jacket, etc.) having a front closure directly in the center with only a narrow overlap secured by a single button or row of buttons.
  • slab plastering — coarse plastering, as between the studs in a half-timbered wall.
  • sleeping beauty — a beautiful princess, the heroine of a popular fairy tale, awakened from a charmed sleep by the kiss of the prince who is her true love.
  • sleeping tablet — A sleeping tablet is the same as a sleeping pill.
  • smelling bottle — a small bottle or vial for holding smelling salts or perfume.
  • snapping beetle — click beetle.
  • soft-boiled egg — boiled egg with runny yolk
  • southern blight — a disease of peanuts, tomatoes, and other plants, caused by a fungus, Sclerotium rolfsii, affecting the roots and resulting in rapid wilting.
  • stamford bridge — a village in N England, east of York: site of a battle (1066) in which King Harold of England defeated his brother Tostig and King Harald Hardrada of Norway, three weeks before the Battle of Hastings
  • starting blocks — the rigid blocks adjustable at an angle and mounted on a track against which a runner's shoes are placed to aid in starting
  • straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
  • string variable — data on which arithmetical operations will not be performed
  • strobe lighting — a high-intensity flashing beam of light produced by rapid electrical discharges in a tube or by a perforated disc rotating in front of an intense light source: used in discotheques, etc
  • stumbling block — an obstacle or hindrance to progress, belief, or understanding.
  • subintelligence — below average intelligence
  • subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
  • subject-raising — a rule that moves the subject of a complement clause into the clause in which it is embedded, as in the derivation of He is likely to be late from It is likely that he will be late
  • suborganization — an organization within a larger organization
  • svedberg (unit) — a unit of time, equal to 10-13 second, used in determining the rate of sedimentation of a macromolecule in an ultracentrifuge
  • swing both ways — to enjoy sexual partners of both sexes
  • system building — a method of building in which prefabricated components are used to speed the construction of buildings
  • tamarisk gerbil — gerbil (def 2).
  • tangible assets — valuable items: cash, property, etc.
  • troubleshooting — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
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