14-letter words containing b, r, u, e, g
- discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
- disencumbering — Present participle of disencumber.
- 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
- dungeness crab — an edible crab, Cancer magister, of shallow Pacific coastal waters from northern California to Alaska.
- engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
- finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
- fredericksburg — a city in NE Virginia, on the Rappahannock River: scene of a Confederate victory 1862.
- french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
- garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
- general public — people in general
- george hw bush — Barbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
- glauber's salt — the decahydrate form of sodium sulfate, a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na 2 SO 4 ·10H 2 O, used chiefly in textile dyeing and as a cathartic.
- go gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- groundbreaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
- grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
- hague tribunal — the court of arbitration for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, established at The Hague by the international peace conference of 1899: its panel of jurists nominates a list of persons from which members of the United Nations International Court of Justice are elected.
- half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
- hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
- huckleberrying — the activity of gathering huckleberries
- irregular verb — verb with non-standard past tense
- jerry-building — the act of building (houses, flats, etc) badly using cheap materials
- limburg cheese — a semihard white cheese of very strong smell and flavour
- lugubriousness — The property of being lugubrious.
- magdeburg laws — the local laws of the city of Magdeburg, which were adopted by many European cities in the middle ages
- middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
- money-grubbing — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
- 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.
- neighbourhoods — Plural form of neighbourhood.
- neubrandenburg — a city in Mecklenburg–West Pomerania, in NE Germany.
- neurobiologist — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
- nursing bottle — a bottle with a rubber nipple, from which an infant sucks milk, water, etc.
- pocket borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough whose representatives in Parliament were controlled by an individual or family.
- public gallery — the gallery in a chamber of Parliament reserved for members of the public who wish to listen to the proceedings
- quarterbacking — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
- rabble-rousing — of, relating to, or characteristic of a rabble-rouser.
- rotten borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough that had very few voters yet was represented in Parliament.
- running battle — When two groups of people fight a running battle, they keep attacking each other in various parts of a place.
- saxe-altenburg — a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
- serum globulin — the blood serum component consisting of proteins with a larger molecular weight than serum albumin
- square-bashing — drill on a barrack square
- st. petersburg — Also called Russian Empire. Russian Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Capital: St. Petersburg (1703–1917).
- sturmabteilung — a political militia of the Nazi party, organized about 1923 and notorious for its violence and terrorism up to 1934, when it was purged and reorganized as an instrument of physical training and political indoctrination of German men; Brown Shirts.
- 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
- subgenerically — in a subgeneric manner; in a way relating to a subgenus
- sugar diabetes — diabetes mellitus
- telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
- 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.