14-letter words containing b, r, i, d, g, e
- defibrillating — Present participle of defibrillate.
- deflagrability — the state or quality of being deflagrable
- discharge tube — gas tube.
- discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
- disencumbering — Present participle of disencumber.
- docking bridge — a raised platform running from one side to the other of a ship toward the stern, used by officers for supervising docking operations.
- 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
- drainage basin — the area drained by a river and all its tributaries. Also called catchment area, drainage area. Compare watershed (def 2).
- dressing table — a table or stand, usually surmounted by a mirror, in front of which a person sits while dressing, applying makeup, etc.
- driving barrel — (in a weight-driven clock) the drum turned by the descent of the weight, which drives the clock mechanism.
- featherbedding — the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives.
- fredericksburg — a city in NE Virginia, on the Rappahannock River: scene of a Confederate victory 1862.
- garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
- gender-bending — Informal. one, as a cross-dresser, that blurs differences between the sexes.
- girls' brigade — (in Britain) an organization for girls, founded in 1893, with the aim of promoting self-discipline and self-respect
- governing body — board, regulatory authority
- groundbreaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
- gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
- heidelberg jaw — a human lower jaw of early middle Pleistocene age found in 1907 near Heidelberg, Germany.
- heidelberg man — the primitive human being reconstructed from the Heidelberg jaw.
- hybrid testing — (testing) A combination of top-down testing with bottom-up testing of prioritised or available components.
- jerry-building — the act of building (houses, flats, etc) badly using cheap materials
- kissing bridge — a covered bridge.
- marriage bonds — the strong feeling of being united that is associated with marriage
- middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
- mourning bride — a plant, Scabiosa atropurpurea, native to Europe, cultivated for its purple, reddish, or white flowers.
- natural bridge — a natural limestone bridge in western Virginia. 215 feet (66 meters) high; 90 feet (27 meters) span.
- needle bearing — an antifriction roller bearing in which long rollers of very small diameter fill the race without a cage to provide spacers between them
- neighbourhoods — Plural form of neighbourhood.
- partridgeberry — a North American trailing plant, Mitchella repens, of the madder family, having roundish evergreen leaves, fragrant white flowers, and scarlet berries.
- pontoon bridge — a bridge supported by pontoons.
- railway bridge — a bridge built to carry a railway over a road, river, etc
- rainbow bridge — a natural stone bridge in S Utah: a national monument. 290 feet (88 meters) high; 275 feet (84 meters) span.
- right of abode — If someone is given the right of abode in a particular country, they are legally allowed to live there.
- single bedroom — a bedroom that is intended to accommodate a single bed and occupancy of one person
- sovereign debt — the debt of a national government, esp debt that is issued in a foreign currency
- spread betting — Spread betting is a form of gambling that involves predicting a range of possible scores or results rather than one particular score or result.
- sugar diabetes — diabetes mellitus
- through bridge — a bridge in which the track is carried by the lower horizontal members
- tunbridge ware — decorative wooden ware, including tables, trays, boxes, and ornamental objects, produced especially in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Tunbridge Wells, England, with mosaiclike marquetry sawed from square-sectioned wooden rods of different natural colors.
- under-building — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- upgradeability — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
- winding number — the number of times a closed curve winds around a point not on the curve.
- with bad grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.