14-letter words containing b, o, g, t
- bottom-feeding — the activities of a bottom feeder.
- bowstring hemp — a hemplike fibre obtained from the sansevieria
- boy-meets-girl — conventionally or trivially romantic
- branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
- breaking point — If something or someone has reached breaking point, they have so many problems or difficulties that they can no longer cope with them, and may soon collapse or be unable to continue.
- breeding stock — animals specifically kept to breed from
- bring onstream — To bring onstream a plant, mine, oilfield, etc. is to start production there.
- bring sth home — To bring something home to someone means to make them understand how important or serious it is.
- bring to light — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- bring to terms — to reduce to submission; force to agree
- british legion — (in Britain) a national social club for veterans of the armed forces.
- broad daylight — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
- budget account — an account with a department store, etc, enabling a customer to make monthly payments to cover his or her past and future purchases
- bug-compatible — Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with fossils or misfeatures in other programs or (especially) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1.0."
- burnt offering — a sacrificial offering burnt, usually on an altar, to honour, propitiate, or supplicate a deity
- bursting point — the point at which normal capacity is exceeded.
- button-through — (of a dress or skirt) fastened with buttons from top to hem
- butylene group — any of four bivalent isomeric groups having the formula –C 4 H 8 –.
- by a long shot — People sometimes use the expression by a long shot to emphasize the opinion they are giving.
- carbon trading — Carbon trading is the practice of buying and selling the right to produce carbon dioxide emissions, so that people, countries or companies who use a lot of fuel and electricity can buy rights from those that do not use so much.
- carpet bombing — Carpet bombing is heavy bombing from aircraft, with the intention of hitting as many places as possible in a particular area.
- carpet bowling — a form of bowls played indoors on a strip of carpet, at the centre of which lies an obstacle round which the bowl has to pass
- cartilage bone — any bone that develops within cartilage rather than in a fibrous tissue membrane
- charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
- cobelligerents — Plural form of cobelligerent.
- cognate object — a noun functioning as the object of a verb to which it is etymologically related, as in think a thought or sing a song
- cognoscibility — capable of being known.
- collecting box — a box for the temporary storage of examples or specimens
- combat fatigue — a psychoneurotic condition characterized by anxiety, irritability, depression, etc., often occurring after prolonged combat in warfare
- conglobulation — the act of conglobing
- cotton batting — cotton wadding, as used in quilt making
- counter-gambit — a countermove
- county borough — (in England and Wales from 1888 to 1974 and in Wales from 1996) a borough administered independently of any higher tier of local government
- daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
- debugging tool — debugger
- diagnosability — the quality of being diagnosable
- diplomatic bag — A diplomatic bag is a bag or container in which mail is sent to and from foreign embassies. Diplomatic bags are protected by law, so that they are not opened by anyone except the official or embassy they are addressed to.
- 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.”.
- double-tongued — deceitful; hypocritical.
- drafting board — drawing board.
- draughts board — A draughts board is a square board for playing draughts, with 64 equal-sized, black and white squares.
- effort bargain — a bargain in which the reward to an employee is based on the effort that the employee puts in
- electrobiology — (physics, biology) The study of the production and use of electricity by biological organisms.
- energy obesity — the practice of being wasteful of energy in the form of electricity, fossil fuels, etc, in one's day-to-day life
- engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
- feeding bottle — infant's feeding receptacle
- fibrocartilage — a type of cartilage having a large number of fibers.
- fighter-bomber — an aircraft that combines the functions of a fighter and a bomber.
- finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
- finnbogadottir — Vigdís [Icelandic vig-dees] /Icelandic vɪgˈdis/ (Show IPA), born 1930, Icelandic political leader: president 1980–96.