14-letter words containing e, b, a
- fraise du bois — a wild strawberry.
- free as a bird — really free
- free vibration — the vibration of a structure that occurs at its natural frequency, as opposed to a forced vibration
- freeboard deck — (on a cargo vessel) the uppermost deck officially considered to be watertight: used as the level from which the Plimsoll marks are measured.
- frequency band — band2 (def 9).
- gabriel marcel — Gabriel [ga-bree-el] /ga briˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1887–1973, French philosopher, dramatist, and critic.
- gabriel tellez — (Gabriel Téllez) 1571?–1648, Spanish dramatist.
- gallamine blue — a type of mordant dye
- gambling debts — debts acquired as a result of money spent gambling
- gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
- garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
- garden warbler — any of several small brownish-grey European songbirds of the genus Sylvia (warblers), esp S. borin, common in woods and hedges: in some parts of Europe they are esteemed as a delicacy
- garden webworm — the larva of any of several moths, as Hyphantria cunea (fall webworm) or Loxostege similalis (garden webworm) which spins a web over the foliage on which it feeds.
- gate-leg table — a table having drop leaves supported by gate legs.
- gay liberation — a political and social movement to combat legal and social discrimination against homosexuals.
- general public — people in general
- get one's back — situated at or in the rear: at the back door; back fence.
- ghetto blaster — a large, powerful portable radio, especially as carried and played by a pedestrian or used outdoors in an urban area.
- gilbert patten — Gilbert ("Burt L. Standish") 1866–1945, U.S. writer of adventure stories.
- girls' brigade — (in Britain) an organization for girls, founded in 1893, with the aim of promoting self-discipline and self-respect
- give sb a bell — If you give someone a bell, you telephone them.
- give sb a ring — If you give someone a ring, you phone them.
- 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 village — the world, especially considered as the home of all nations and peoples living interdependently.
- globe amaranth — a plant, Gomphrena globosa, native to the Old World tropics, having dense heads of variously colored flowers that retain their color when cut.
- go a bundle on — to be extremely fond of
- go gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- golden warbler — yellow warbler.
- goliath beetle — any very large tropical scarabaeid beetle of the genus Goliathus, esp G. giganteus of Africa, which may grow to a length of 20 centimetres
- goose barnacle — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
- governableness — The state of being governable.
- great zimbabwe — Formerly Southern Rhodesia, Rhodesia. a republic in S Africa: a former British colony and part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; gained independence 1980. 150,330 sq. mi. (389,362 sq. km). Capital: Harare.
- greek alphabet — the alphabetical script derived from a Semitic alphabet by way of the Phoenicians, used from about the 8th century b.c. for the writing of Greek, and forming the basis of many other scripts, including Latin and Cyrillic. The letters of the Greek alphabet are: alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu1 , xi, omicron, pi1 , rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi1 , psi1 , omega.
- 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
- grow the beard — (of a TV series) to gain credibility or improve in quality during the course of a series following a specified development
- gyrostabiliser — (British spelling) Alternative form of gyrostabilizer.
- gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
- gyrostabilizer — a device for stabilizing a seagoing vessel by counteracting its rolling motion from side to side, consisting essentially of a rotating gyroscope weighing about 1 percent of the displacement of the vessel.
- haberdasheries — Plural form of haberdashery.
- 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.
- hair's breadth — A hair's breadth is a very small degree or amount.
- hair's-breadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
- hand's-breadth — handbreadth
- handbrake turn — a turn sharply reversing the direction of a vehicle by speedily applying the handbrake while turning the steering wheel
- hanging basket — suspended woven container for plants
- harbour master — an official in charge of a harbour
- harriet tubman — Harriet (Araminta) 1820?–1913, U.S. abolitionist: escaped slave and leader of the Underground Railroad; served as a Union scout during Civil War.
- have a bash at — to make an attempt at