14-letter words containing b, u, g, t, r
- haight-ashbury — a district of San Francisco, in the central part of the city: a center for hippies and the drug culture in the 1960s.
- natural bridge — a natural limestone bridge in western Virginia. 215 feet (66 meters) high; 90 feet (27 meters) span.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- subcontracting — outsourcing of contract work
- sugar diabetes — diabetes mellitus
- support buying — buying carried out to support an exchange rate
- 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.
- through bridge — a bridge in which the track is carried by the lower horizontal members
- thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
- to be bursting — to want desperately to urinate
- 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.
- turbine engine — a rotary engine that converts kinetic energy of a moving fluid (water, steam, air, or combustion products of a fuel) into mechanical energy
- turbo debugger — (programming) A source-level debugger designed for use with Borland and other compilers.
- turbogenerator — a large electrical generator driven by a steam turbine
- turnip cabbage — kohlrabi.
- upgradeability — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
- 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.