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14-letter words containing b, o, g, t

  • flotation bags — bags inflated to keep a spacecraft or helicopter afloat and upright when it lands in the sea
  • frege, gottlob — Gottlob Frege
  • gay liberation — a political and social movement to combat legal and social discrimination against homosexuals.
  • get hold of sb — If you get hold of someone, you manage to contact them.
  • get one's back — situated at or in the rear: at the back door; back fence.
  • get the bounce — to dismiss or be dismissed from a job
  • ghetto blaster — a large, powerful portable radio, especially as carried and played by a pedestrian or used outdoors in an urban area.
  • 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.
  • give sb notice — If an employer gives an employee notice, the employer tells the employee that he or she must leave his or her job within a short fixed period of time.
  • global product — a commercial product that is marketed throughout the world under the same brand name
  • globalizations — Plural form of globalization.
  • globe amaranth — a plant, Gomphrena globosa, native to the Old World tropics, having dense heads of variously colored flowers that retain their color when cut.
  • go gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
  • go to bed with — a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
  • goliath beetle — any very large tropical scarabaeid beetle of the genus Goliathus, esp G. giganteus of Africa, which may grow to a length of 20 centimetres
  • gordon bennett — an exclamation of surprise
  • grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
  • grow the beard — (of a TV series) to gain credibility or improve in quality during the course of a series following a specified development
  • grylloblattids — Plural form of grylloblattid.
  • guantanamo bay — a bay on the SE coast of Cuba.
  • gyrostabiliser — (British spelling) Alternative form of gyrostabilizer.
  • gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
  • gyrostabilizer — a device for stabilizing a seagoing vessel by counteracting its rolling motion from side to side, consisting essentially of a rotating gyroscope weighing about 1 percent of the displacement of the vessel.
  • have bought it — to be killed
  • holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
  • hydrobiologist — someone who studies or specializes in hydrobiology
  • immunoblotting — The use of immunoblots to analyse proteins.
  • indigo bunting — a North American bunting, Passerina cyanea, the male of which is indigo.
  • interblock gap — the area or space separating consecutive blocks of data or consecutive physical records on an external storage medium.
  • jacobite glass — an English drinking glass of the late 17th or early 18th century, engraved with Jacobite mottoes and symbols.
  • king of beasts — the lion.
  • lactoglobulins — Plural form of lactoglobulin.
  • little bighorn — a river flowing N from N Wyoming to S Montana into the Bighorn River: General Custer and troops defeated near its juncture by Indians 1876. 80 miles (130 km) long.
  • macrobiologist — One who studies macrobiology.
  • megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
  • methaemoglobin — a brownish compound of oxygen and hemoglobin, formed in the blood, as by the use of certain drugs.
  • microbiologist — the branch of biology dealing with the structure, function, uses, and modes of existence of microscopic organisms.
  • mounting-block — a block of stone formerly used to aid a person when mounting a horse
  • navigation bar — (web)   (Always abbreviated "nav bar") On a website, a prominently displayed set of links to important sections of the site.
  • neurobiologist — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
  • non-negotiable — capable of being negotiated: a negotiable salary demand.
  • nonbelligerent — of or relating to a country whose status or policy is one of nonbelligerency.
  • nursing bottle — a bottle with a rubber nipple, from which an infant sucks milk, water, etc.
  • object program — a computer program translated from the equivalent source program into machine language by the compiler or assembler
  • obligatoriness — The quality or state of being obligatory.
  • opening gambit — a preliminary or opening tactic
  • organizability — The suitability or potential for organization.
  • palaebiologist — a person who studies or is an expert in palaebiology
  • paleobiologist — the branch of paleontology dealing with fossil life forms, especially with reference to their origin, structure, evolution, etc.
  • pilgrim bottle — a flat-sided water bottle having two loops at the side of a short neck for a suspending cord or chain.
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