14-letter words containing g, a, d, b
- bucket brigade — a line of persons passing buckets of water along in trying to put out a fire
- budget account — an account with a department store, etc, enabling a customer to make monthly payments to cover his or her past and future purchases
- budget heading — a heading in a budget under which an expenditure is listed
- budgetary year — the financial year a budget is drawn up for
- building paper — any of various types of heavy-duty paper that usually consist of bitumen reinforced with fibre sandwiched between two sheets of kraft paper: used in damp-proofing or as insulation between the soil and a road surface
- building trade — the economic sector comprising all companies and workers involved in construction
- cambridge blue — a lightish blue colour
- cambridge lisp — A flavour of Lisp using BCPL. Sources owned by Fitznorman partners.
- cambridgeshire — a county of E England, in East Anglia: includes the former counties of the Isle of Ely and Huntingdon and lies largely in the Fens: Peterborough became an independent unitary authority in 1998. Administrative centre: Cambridge. Pop (excluding Peterborough): 571 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Peterborough): 3068 sq km (184 sq miles)
- 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.
- cartridge belt — a belt with pockets for cartridge clips or loops for cartridges
- chopping board — A chopping board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
- ciudad obregon — a city in W Mexico.
- clapper bridge — a primitive type of bridge in which planks or slabs of stone rest on piles of stones
- colombian gold — a potent marijuana grown in South America.
- cribbage board — a board, with pegs and holes, used for scoring at cribbage
- cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
- daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
- defibrillating — Present participle of defibrillate.
- deflagrability — the state or quality of being deflagrable
- diagnosability — the quality of being diagnosable
- diagonalisable — (of a square matrix or linear map) able to be diagonalised
- diagonalizable — (of a square matrix or linear map) able to be diagonalized
- 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.
- discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
- dogbane family — the plant family Apocynaceae, characterized by shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants having milky and often poisonous juice, simple opposite leaves, often showy flowers, and fruit usually in dry pods, and including the dogbane, oleander, periwinkle, and plumeria.
- double glazing — glazing consisting of two thicknesses of glass with a dead air space between them.
- 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
- double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
- double-dealing — duplicity; treachery; deception.
- drafting board — drawing board.
- dragon's blood — a deep-red, water-insoluble resin exuding from the fruit of a palm, Daemonorops draco, of the Malay Archipelago, used chiefly in the preparation of varnishes and in photoengraving for protecting certain areas of the metal plate from the acid.
- drainage basin — the area drained by a river and all its tributaries. Also called catchment area, drainage area. Compare watershed (def 2).
- draining board — The draining board is the place on a sink unit where things such as cups, plates, and cutlery are put to drain after they have been washed.
- draughts board — A draughts board is a square board for playing draughts, with 64 equal-sized, black and white squares.
- dressing table — a table or stand, usually surmounted by a mirror, in front of which a person sits while dressing, applying makeup, etc.
- driving barrel — (in a weight-driven clock) the drum turned by the descent of the weight, which drives the clock mechanism.
- dungeness crab — an edible crab, Cancer magister, of shallow Pacific coastal waters from northern California to Alaska.
- edging lobelia — a trailing lobelia, Lobelia erinus, of southern Africa, having loose clusters of blue flowers.
- 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.
- finnbogadottir — Vigdís [Icelandic vig-dees] /Icelandic vɪgˈdis/ (Show IPA), born 1930, Icelandic political leader: president 1980–96.
- flabberghasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabberghast.
- food labelling — the practice of providing nutritional information on labels on food packaging
- forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
- gambling debts — debts acquired as a result of money spent gambling