14-letter words containing b, u, g, t
- cable trunking — Cable trunking is an enclosure usually with a rectangular cross section, and with one removable or hinged side, that is used to protect cables and provide space for other electrical equipment.
- capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
- charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
- christiansburg — a town in SW Virginia.
- cigarette burn — a burn created by a cigarette
- cigarette butt — A cigarette butt or a cigarette end is the part of a cigarette that you throw away when you have finished smoking it.
- combat fatigue — a psychoneurotic condition characterized by anxiety, irritability, depression, etc., often occurring after prolonged combat in warfare
- conglobulation — the act of conglobing
- counter-gambit — a countermove
- county borough — (in England and Wales from 1888 to 1974 and in Wales from 1996) a borough administered independently of any higher tier of local government
- cybersquatting — Cybersquatting involves buying an Internet domain name that might be wanted by another person, business, or organization with the intention of selling it to them and making a profit.
- daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
- debugging tool — debugger
- disambiguating — Present participle of disambiguate.
- disambiguation — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
- discharge tube — gas tube.
- double-tongued — deceitful; hypocritical.
- draughts board — A draughts board is a square board for playing draughts, with 64 equal-sized, black and white squares.
- engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
- extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
- finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
- flying dustbin — petard (def 3).
- get the bounce — to dismiss or be dismissed from a job
- giant puffball — a puffball, Calvatia gigantea, that is the largest of its kind, known to have grown to more than 5 feet (1.6 meters) in circumference.
- 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.
- 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.
- global product — a commercial product that is marketed throughout the world under the same brand name
- go gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
- guantanamo bay — a bay on the SE coast of Cuba.
- 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.
- 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.
- have bought it — to be killed
- holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
- immunoblotting — The use of immunoblots to analyse proteins.
- indigo bunting — a North American bunting, Passerina cyanea, the male of which is indigo.
- lactoglobulins — Plural form of lactoglobulin.
- mounting-block — a block of stone formerly used to aid a person when mounting a horse
- 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).
- stage business — business (def 10).
- 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.