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14-letter words containing b, i, g, u, n

  • conglobulation — the act of conglobing
  • counter-gambit — a countermove
  • cybersquatting — Cybersquatting involves buying an Internet domain name that might be wanted by another person, business, or organization with the intention of selling it to them and making a profit.
  • debugging tool — debugger
  • disambiguating — Present participle of disambiguate.
  • disambiguation — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
  • disencumbering — Present participle of disencumber.
  • double digging — a method of digging ground in a series of trenches two spits deep, mixing the soil of the bottom spit with manure, and then transferring the soil from the top spit of one trench to the top spit of the preceding one
  • double glazing — glazing consisting of two thicknesses of glass with a dead air space between them.
  • double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
  • double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • double wedding — a wedding in which two couples marry
  • double-dealing — duplicity; treachery; deception.
  • double-dipping — the act or practice of receiving more than one income or collecting double benefits from the same employer or organization.
  • dumbfoundingly — In a dumbfounding manner.
  • engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
  • extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
  • finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
  • flying dustbin — petard (def 3).
  • forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
  • fungible issue — a bond issued by a company on the same terms as a bond previously issued by that company, although the redemption yield will probably be different
  • gallamine blue — a type of mordant dye
  • gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
  • gamma globulin — a protein fraction of blood plasma that responds to stimulation of antigens, as bacteria or viruses, by forming antibodies: administered therapeutically in the treatment of some viral diseases.
  • garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
  • general public — people in general
  • giant puffball — a puffball, Calvatia gigantea, that is the largest of its kind, known to have grown to more than 5 feet (1.6 meters) in circumference.
  • gibbs function — the thermodynamic function of a system that is equal to its enthalpy minus the product of its absolute temperture and entropy: a decrease in the function is equal to the maximum amount of work available exclusive of that due to pressure times volume change during a reversible, isothermal, isobaric process.
  • golden jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
  • 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
  • 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.
  • hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
  • holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
  • huckleberrying — the activity of gathering huckleberries
  • image-building — improving the brand image or public image of something or someone by good public relations, advertising, etc
  • immunoblotting — The use of immunoblots to analyse proteins.
  • immunoglobulin — any of several classes of structurally related proteins that function as antibodies or receptors and are found in plasma and other body fluids and in the membrane of certain cells. Compare IgA, IgD, IgE, IgG, IgM.
  • impulse buying — the buying of retail merchandise prompted by a whim on seeing the product displayed
  • indigo bunting — a North American bunting, Passerina cyanea, the male of which is indigo.
  • jerry-building — the act of building (houses, flats, etc) badly using cheap materials
  • lactoglobulins — Plural form of lactoglobulin.
  • lugubriousness — The property of being lugubrious.
  • macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
  • millennium bug — Year 2000
  • money-grubbing — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
  • moulding board — a board on which dough is kneaded
  • mounting-block — a block of stone formerly used to aid a person when mounting a horse
  • mourning bride — a plant, Scabiosa atropurpurea, native to Europe, cultivated for its purple, reddish, or white flowers.
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