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14-letter words containing b, u, r, g

  • burying ground — a burial ground.
  • bush telegraph — a means of communication between primitive peoples over large areas, as by drum beats
  • butterfingered — a person who frequently drops things; clumsy person.
  • button-through — (of a dress or skirt) fastened with buttons from top to hem
  • butylene group — any of four bivalent isomeric groups having the formula –C 4 H 8 –.
  • buying manager — The buying manager of a store is a senior employee whose job is to manage the purchase and delivery of products and supplies, maintaining stock levels.
  • 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.
  • cambridge blue — a lightish blue colour
  • carbonyl group — the bivalent radical CO, occurring in acids, ketones, aldehydes, and their derivatives.
  • carboxyl group — functional group in organic acids
  • 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.
  • circumscribing — Present participle of circumscribe.
  • ciudad obregon — a city in W Mexico.
  • colouring book — A colouring book is a book of simple drawings which children can colour in.
  • 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
  • cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
  • 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.
  • discharge tube — gas tube.
  • discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
  • disencumbering — Present participle of disencumber.
  • double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
  • double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
  • draughts board — A draughts board is a square board for playing draughts, with 64 equal-sized, black and white squares.
  • dungeness crab — an edible crab, Cancer magister, of shallow Pacific coastal waters from northern California to Alaska.
  • engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
  • finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
  • forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
  • fredericksburg — a city in NE Virginia, on the Rappahannock River: scene of a Confederate victory 1862.
  • french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
  • garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
  • general public — people in general
  • george hw bushBarbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
  • 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.
  • groundbreaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
  • grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
  • 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.
  • half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
  • hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
  • huckleberrying — the activity of gathering huckleberries
  • irregular verb — verb with non-standard past tense
  • jerry-building — the act of building (houses, flats, etc) badly using cheap materials
  • limburg cheese — a semihard white cheese of very strong smell and flavour
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