14-letter words containing b, u, g, t
- 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
- suggestibility — subject to or easily influenced by suggestion.
- suggestion box — receptacle for customers' comments
- support buying — buying carried out to support an exchange rate
- telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
- the blue angel — a legendary German expressionist film of 1930, the first major German sound film, starring Marlene Dietrich
- 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
- to go belly-up — (of a company) to not have enough money to pay its debts
- tubal ligation — a method of permanent sterilization for women, involving the surgical sealing of the fallopian tubes to prevent the ovum from passing from the ovary to the uterus.
- 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.
- tunguska basin — large coal basin in central Siberia, between the Yenisei & Lena rivers: it is drained by three rivers, the Lower Tunguska, Stony Tunguska, & Upper Tunguska (usually called the Angara River), which flow west into the Yenisei
- 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.
- un-get-at-able — very difficult to get hold of or get close to
- unintelligible — not intelligible; not capable of being understood.
- unintelligibly — not intelligible; not capable of being understood.
- upgradeability — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
- vegetable soup — soup made with vegetables
- whistling buoy — a buoy having a whistle operated by air trapped and compressed in an open-bottomed chamber by the rising and falling water level caused by natural wave action.
- 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.