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16-letter words containing b, o, g, r

  • burrowing blenny — graveldiver.
  • buying behaviour — the behaviours displayed by consumers when they purchase things, such as preferences, price points, etc
  • cabbage root fly — a dipterous fly, Erioischia brassicae, whose larvae feed on the roots and stems of cabbages and other brassicas: family Muscidae (houseflies, etc)
  • carbon 14 dating — radiocarbon dating.
  • carbon-14 dating — radiocarbon dating.
  • christening robe — a long white dress worn by a baby at his or her christening
  • class background — a person's background with reference to social class
  • combination drug — a medication comprised of set dosages of two or more separate drugs.
  • come/bring alive — If a story or description comes alive, it becomes interesting, lively, or realistic. If someone or something brings it alive, they make it seem more interesting, lively, or realistic.
  • congeliturbation — the churning, heaving, and thrusting of soil material due to the action of frost.
  • copyright symbol — (character, legal)   "©" The internationally recognised symbol required to introduce a copyright notice, a letter C with a circle around it. This can be encoded in ISO 8859-1 as character code decimal 169, hexadecimal A9, in HTML as ©, © or ©. A "c" in parentheses: "(c)" is sometimes used in documents stored in a coded character set such as ASCII that does not include the C in a circle, but this has no legal meaning.
  • counterbalancing — Present participle of counterbalance.
  • cyanogen bromide — a colorless, slightly water-soluble, poisonous, volatile, crystalline solid, BrCN, used chiefly as a fumigant and a pesticide.
  • dabrowa gornicza — an industrial city in S Poland.
  • 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.
  • de broglie waves — the set of waves that represent the behaviour of an elementary particle, or some atoms and molecules, under certain conditions. The de Broglie wavelength, λ, is given by λ = h/mv, where h is the Planck constant, m the mass, and v the velocity of the particle
  • dearborn heights — city in SE Mich.: suburb of Detroit: pop. 58,000
  • debt forgiveness — the action or process of forgiving people their debts
  • division algebra — a linear algebra in which each element of the vector space has a multiplicative inverse.
  • double centering — a method of extending a survey line by taking the average of two foresights, one with the telescope direct and one with it inverted, made each time by transiting the telescope after a backsight.
  • 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
  • drinking problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
  • drugstore cowboy — a young man who loafs around drugstores or on street corners.
  • ebenezer scrooge — Ebenezer [eb-uh-nee-zer] /ˌɛb əˈni zər/ (Show IPA) a miserly curmudgeon in Dickens' Christmas Carol.
  • economic embargo — a legal stoppage of commerce, usually taken by one nation or group of nations to harm the economy of another nation or group, often to force a political change
  • edinburgh prolog — Prolog dialect which eventually developed into the standard, as opposed to Marseille Prolog. (The difference is largely syntax.) Clocksin & Mellish describe Edinburgh Prolog. Version: C-Prolog.
  • embourgeoisement — (chiefly UK) The taking-up of middle-class attitudes or values; bourgeoisification; the process of becoming affluent.
  • flabbergastation — (colloquial) Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted.
  • flamborough head — a chalk promontory in NE England, on the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire
  • four-deal bridge — a version of bridge in which four hands only are played, the players then cutting for new partners
  • 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.
  • garbage disposal — A garbage disposal or a garbage disposal unit is a small machine in the kitchen sink that breaks down waste matter so that it does not block the sink.
  • get into trouble — be punished for wrongdoing
  • globigerina ooze — a calcareous deposit occurring upon ocean beds and consisting mainly of the shells of dead foraminifers, especially globigerina.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • gulf of martaban — an inlet of the Bay of Bengal in Myanmar
  • hanging wardrobe — a wardrobe containing a rail with a large amount of space underneath, so that clothes can be hung on hangers placed onto the rail
  • herringbone bond — a brickwork bond in which the exposed brickwork is bonded to the heart of the wall by concealed courses of bricks laid diagonally to the faces of the wall in a herringbone pattern, with the end of each brick butting against the side of the adjoining brick; a form of raking bond.
  • herringbone gear — a helical gear having teeth that lie on the pitch cylinder in a V -shaped form so that one half of each tooth is on a right-handed helix and the other half on a left-handed helix.
  • honeymoon bridge — any of several varieties of bridge for two players.
  • horseback riding — activity: riding a horse
  • hummingbird moth — hawk moth.
  • hydrogen bromide — a colorless gas, HBr, having a pungent odor: the anhydride of hydrobromic acid.
  • incorrigibleness — The quality of being incorrigible; incorrigibility.
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