14-letter words containing b, o, g, r
- root vegetable — edible starchy tuber
- rotten borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough that had very few voters yet was represented in Parliament.
- sb will go far — If you say that someone will go far, you mean that they will be very successful in their career.
- sea gooseberry — a comb jelly, especially of the genus Pleurobrachia.
- serum globulin — the blood serum component consisting of proteins with a larger molecular weight than serum albumin
- shooting brake — station wagon.
- single bedroom — a bedroom that is intended to accommodate a single bed and occupancy of one person
- skirting board — fabric for making skirts.
- sounding board — a thin, resonant plate of wood forming part of a musical instrument, and so placed as to enhance the power and quality of the tone.
- sovereign debt — the debt of a national government, esp debt that is issued in a foreign currency
- spitting cobra — any cobra or cobralike snake, especially the ringhals, that sprays venom at the eyes of approaching animals.
- springboarding — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
- stabbing board — A stabbing board is a platform in the derrick, on which the derrickhand stands to run in casing.
- staggering bob — a newborn calf.
- starting block — a device used by runners, especially sprinters, for increasing their speed off the mark, consisting of a metal or wooden frame, usually secured to the ground at both ends, with adjustable, triangular-shaped blocks on each side for bracing the feet.
- stockbrokerage — a stockbroker's work or business
- sub-government — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- subaggregation — a subtotalling
- subcontracting — outsourcing of contract work
- support buying — buying carried out to support an exchange rate
- telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
- tensor bandage — a wide elasticized bandage that supports injured joints
- thorough brace — either of two strong braces or bands of leather supporting the body of a coach or other vehicle and connecting the front and back springs.
- through bridge — a bridge in which the track is carried by the lower horizontal members
- to be bursting — to want desperately to urinate
- to ring a bell — If you say that something rings a bell, you mean that it reminds you of something, but you cannot remember exactly what it is.
- turbo debugger — (programming) A source-level debugger designed for use with Borland and other compilers.
- turbogenerator — a large electrical generator driven by a steam turbine
- unprogrammable — not able to be programmed
- unrecognizable — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- unrecognizably — in an unrecognizable or unidentifiable manner
- virgin's-bower — any of several American clematis plants, esp Clematis virginiana, of E North America, which has clusters of small white flowers
- warbling vireo — a grayish-green American vireo, Vireo gilvus, characterized by its melodious warble.
- webliographies — Plural form of webliography.
- webster groves — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- wellingborough — a town in central England, in Northamptonshire. Pop: 46 959 (2001)
- yard-long bean — asparagus bean.
- zebra crossing — a street crossing marked with white stripes.
- zero balancing — a therapy involving the manipulation of the patient's skeletal structure in order to restore the balance of energy, relieve pain, and maintain well-being
- zingiberaceous — belonging to the Zingiberaceae, the ginger family of plants.
- zygobranchiate — of or relating to zygobranchs or the Zygobranchia genus