14-letter words containing g, a, b, i, t
- boarding party — group of officers or sailors who board a ship
- body snatching — the act or practice of robbing a grave to obtain a cadaver for dissection.
- borrowing rate — the interest rate at which money may be borrowed, esp an official rate set by a central bank
- botanic garden — a place in which plants are grown, studied, and exhibited
- bottle gentian — closed gentian.
- bottling plant — a factory where drinks are bottled
- branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
- brass farthing — something of little or no value
- breaking point — If something or someone has reached breaking point, they have so many problems or difficulties that they can no longer cope with them, and may soon collapse or be unable to continue.
- breast-beating — public or ostentatious expression of guilt, remorse, or sorrow
- breast-feeding — to nurse (a baby) at the breast; suckle.
- breathtakingly — thrillingly beautiful, remarkable, astonishing, exciting, or the like: a breathtaking performance.
- bring onstream — To bring onstream a plant, mine, oilfield, etc. is to start production there.
- british guiana — Guyana
- broad daylight — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
- bucket brigade — a line of persons passing buckets of water along in trying to put out a fire
- budget heading — a heading in a budget under which an expenditure is listed
- bug-compatible — Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with fossils or misfeatures in other programs or (especially) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1.0."
- building trade — the economic sector comprising all companies and workers involved in construction
- business agent — a representative of a labor union local, who investigates working conditions, negotiates contracts, etc.
- 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.
- capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
- carbon trading — Carbon trading is the practice of buying and selling the right to produce carbon dioxide emissions, so that people, countries or companies who use a lot of fuel and electricity can buy rights from those that do not use so much.
- carpet bombing — Carpet bombing is heavy bombing from aircraft, with the intention of hitting as many places as possible in a particular area.
- carpet bowling — a form of bowls played indoors on a strip of carpet, at the centre of which lies an obstacle round which the bowl has to pass
- cartilage bone — any bone that develops within cartilage rather than in a fibrous tissue membrane
- cartridge belt — a belt with pockets for cartridge clips or loops for cartridges
- 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.
- combat fatigue — a psychoneurotic condition characterized by anxiety, irritability, depression, etc., often occurring after prolonged combat in warfare
- conglobulation — the act of conglobing
- cotton batting — cotton wadding, as used in quilt making
- counter-gambit — a countermove
- 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.
- defibrillating — Present participle of defibrillate.
- deflagrability — the state or quality of being deflagrable
- diagnosability — the quality of being diagnosable
- diplomatic bag — A diplomatic bag is a bag or container in which mail is sent to and from foreign embassies. Diplomatic bags are protected by law, so that they are not opened by anyone except the official or embassy they are addressed to.
- disambiguating — Present participle of disambiguate.
- disambiguation — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
- discharge tube — gas tube.
- drafting board — drawing board.
- dressing table — a table or stand, usually surmounted by a mirror, in front of which a person sits while dressing, applying makeup, etc.
- effort bargain — a bargain in which the reward to an employee is based on the effort that the employee puts in
- exacerbatingly — In an exacerbating way; so as to aggravate or make worse.
- extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
- featherbedding — the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives.
- fibrocartilage — a type of cartilage having a large number of fibers.
- filing cabinet — office: tall set of drawers