14-letter words containing g, a, r, b, e, d
- 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.
- flabberghasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabberghast.
- 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.
- girls' brigade — (in Britain) an organization for girls, founded in 1893, with the aim of promoting self-discipline and self-respect
- golden warbler — yellow warbler.
- groundbreaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
- grow the beard — (of a TV series) to gain credibility or improve in quality during the course of a series following a specified development
- gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
- half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
- heidelberg jaw — a human lower jaw of early middle Pleistocene age found in 1907 near Heidelberg, Germany.
- heidelberg man — the primitive human being reconstructed from the Heidelberg jaw.
- lambeth degree — an honorary degree conferred by the archbishop of Canterbury in divinity, arts, law, medicine, or music.
- magdeburg laws — the local laws of the city of Magdeburg, which were adopted by many European cities in the middle ages
- marriage bonds — the strong feeling of being united that is associated with marriage
- natural bridge — a natural limestone bridge in western Virginia. 215 feet (66 meters) high; 90 feet (27 meters) span.
- needle bearing — an antifriction roller bearing in which long rollers of very small diameter fill the race without a cage to provide spacers between them
- neubrandenburg — a city in Mecklenburg–West Pomerania, in NE Germany.
- partridgeberry — a North American trailing plant, Mitchella repens, of the madder family, having roundish evergreen leaves, fragrant white flowers, and scarlet berries.
- porgy and bess — an opera (1935) with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin.
- progress board — a department of an organization, company, etc, that oversees and ensures progress, advance or development
- railway bridge — a bridge built to carry a railway over a road, river, etc
- rainbow bridge — a natural stone bridge in S Utah: a national monument. 290 feet (88 meters) high; 275 feet (84 meters) span.
- right of abode — If someone is given the right of abode in a particular country, they are legally allowed to live there.
- roller bandage — a long bandage rolled into a cylinder
- scrambled eggs — scrambled eggs are eggs that are mixed together and then cooked in butter.
- spread betting — Spread betting is a form of gambling that involves predicting a range of possible scores or results rather than one particular score or result.
- sugar diabetes — diabetes mellitus
- tensor bandage — a wide elasticized bandage that supports injured joints
- 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.
- upgradeability — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
- with bad grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
- yard-long bean — asparagus bean.