14-letter words containing b, u, g, c
- get the bounce — to dismiss or be dismissed from a job
- 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.
- global product — a commercial product that is marketed throughout the world under the same brand name
- gulf of cambay — an inlet of the Arabian Sea on the W coast of India, southeast of the Kathiawar Peninsula
- huckleberrying — the activity of gathering huckleberries
- lactoglobulins — Plural form of lactoglobulin.
- limburg cheese — a semihard white cheese of very strong smell and flavour
- macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
- mounting-block — a block of stone formerly used to aid a person when mounting a horse
- 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
- public housing — housing owned or operated by a government and usually offered at low rent to the needy.
- quarterbacking — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
- ribbon-cutting — a ceremony marking the official opening of a site, the commencement of its construction, etc., typically involving the cutting of a ribbon suspended as across an entrance
- sounding-block — a small block of wood for rapping with a gavel.
- subcontracting — outsourcing of contract work
- subgenerically — in a subgeneric manner; in a way relating to a subgenus
- submachine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
- 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.
- turnip cabbage — kohlrabi.
- unrecognizable — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- unrecognizably — in an unrecognizable or unidentifiable manner
- viewing public — people who watch television, considered collectively
- witchetty grub — the large white larva of any of several species of moth and beetle of Australia, especially of the moth genus Cossus, occurring in decaying wood and traditionally used as food by Aborigines.
- zingiberaceous — belonging to the Zingiberaceae, the ginger family of plants.