14-letter words containing b, u, i, n, g
- nanopublishing — an inexpensive form of online publishing that uses blogging as a model to reach a specific audience
- natural bridge — a natural limestone bridge in western Virginia. 215 feet (66 meters) high; 90 feet (27 meters) span.
- neighbourhoods — Plural form of neighbourhood.
- neurobiologist — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
- nibelungenlied — a Middle High German epic of c1200, related to the Scandinavian Volsunga Saga and telling of the life of Siegfried, his marriage to Kriemhild, his wooing of Brunhild on behalf of Gunther, his murder by Hagen, and the revenge of Kriemhild.
- nursing bottle — a bottle with a rubber nipple, from which an infant sucks milk, water, etc.
- 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.
- rabble-rousing — of, relating to, or characteristic of a rabble-rouser.
- 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
- running battle — When two groups of people fight a running battle, they keep attacking each other in various parts of a place.
- serum globulin — the blood serum component consisting of proteins with a larger molecular weight than serum albumin
- sounding board — a thin, resonant plate of wood forming part of a musical instrument, and so placed as to enhance the power and quality of the tone.
- sounding-block — a small block of wood for rapping with a gavel.
- square-bashing — drill on a barrack square
- 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.
- subaggregation — a subtotalling
- 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.
- suggestion box — receptacle for customers' comments
- support buying — buying carried out to support an exchange rate
- thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
- to be bursting — to want desperately to urinate
- 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
- turnip cabbage — kohlrabi.
- under-building — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- unintelligible — not intelligible; not capable of being understood.
- unintelligibly — not intelligible; not capable of being understood.
- unmarriageable — suitable or attractive for marriage: The handsome and successful young man was considered eminently marriageable.
- 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
- urban planning — the planning and design of urban areas
- viewing public — people who watch television, considered collectively
- web-publishing — a person or company that uploads, creates, or edits content on Web pages; one who maintains or manages a website.
- wellingborough — a town in central England, in Northamptonshire. Pop: 46 959 (2001)
- 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.
- winding number — the number of times a closed curve winds around a point not on the curve.
- zingiberaceous — belonging to the Zingiberaceae, the ginger family of plants.