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

  • louangphrabang — a city in N Laos, on the Mekong River: former royal capital.
  • lugubriousness — The property of being lugubrious.
  • macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
  • magdeburg laws — the local laws of the city of Magdeburg, which were adopted by many European cities in the middle ages
  • middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
  • money-grubbing — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
  • moulding board — a board on which dough is kneaded
  • mourning bride — a plant, Scabiosa atropurpurea, native to Europe, cultivated for its purple, reddish, or white flowers.
  • natural bridge — a natural limestone bridge in western Virginia. 215 feet (66 meters) high; 90 feet (27 meters) span.
  • neighbourhoods — Plural form of neighbourhood.
  • neubrandenburg — a city in Mecklenburg–West Pomerania, in NE Germany.
  • 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.
  • public gallery — the gallery in a chamber of Parliament reserved for members of the public who wish to listen to the proceedings
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • square-bashing — drill on a barrack square
  • 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
  • subgenerically — in a subgeneric manner; in a way relating to a subgenus
  • 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.
  • under-building — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
  • unmarriageable — suitable or attractive for marriage: The handsome and successful young man was considered eminently marriageable.
  • unprogrammable — not able to be programmed
  • 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
  • upgradeability — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
  • urban planning — the planning and design of urban areas
  • wellingborough — a town in central England, in Northamptonshire. Pop: 46 959 (2001)
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