14-letter words containing g, e, t, b, r
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- hybrid testing — (testing) A combination of top-down testing with bottom-up testing of prioritised or available components.
- impregnability — strong enough to resist or withstand attack; not to be taken by force, unconquerable: an impregnable fort.
- in the bargain — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
- interblock gap — the area or space separating consecutive blocks of data or consecutive physical records on an external storage medium.
- interchangable — Misspelling of interchangeable.
- knee-trembling — very exciting
- lambeth degree — an honorary degree conferred by the archbishop of Canterbury in divinity, arts, law, medicine, or music.
- left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
- little bighorn — a river flowing N from N Wyoming to S Montana into the Bighorn River: General Custer and troops defeated near its juncture by Indians 1876. 80 miles (130 km) long.
- margaret brent — Margaret, 1600?–1671? U.S. colonial landowner, born in England: regarded as an early feminist.
- megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
- megavertebrate — a very big vertebrate, such as a rhinoceros
- natural bridge — a natural limestone bridge in western Virginia. 215 feet (66 meters) high; 90 feet (27 meters) span.
- neurobiologist — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
- nonbelligerent — of or relating to a country whose status or policy is one of nonbelligerency.
- nursing bottle — a bottle with a rubber nipple, from which an infant sucks milk, water, etc.
- object program — a computer program translated from the equivalent source program into machine language by the compiler or assembler
- obligatoriness — The quality or state of being obligatory.
- partridgeberry — a North American trailing plant, Mitchella repens, of the madder family, having roundish evergreen leaves, fragrant white flowers, and scarlet berries.
- pilgrim bottle — a flat-sided water bottle having two loops at the side of a short neck for a suspending cord or chain.
- pocket borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough whose representatives in Parliament were controlled by an individual or family.
- pontoon bridge — a bridge supported by pontoons.
- quarterbacking — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
- rammelsbergite — a mineral, essentially nickel diarsenide, NiAs 2 .
- re-eligibility — the quality or state of being re-eligible
- refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
- registrability — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
- retail banking — banking for individual customers
- right of abode — If someone is given the right of abode in a particular country, they are legally allowed to live there.
- root vegetable — edible starchy tuber
- 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.
- saber rattling — a show or threat of military power, especially as used by a nation to impose its policies on other countries.
- saber-rattling — a show or threat of military power, especially as used by a nation to impose its policies on other countries.
- sabre-rattling — If you describe a threat, especially a threat of military action, as sabre-rattling, you do not believe that the threat will actually be carried out.
- saxe-altenburg — a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
- sergeant baker — a large brightly-coloured fish of the genus Latropiscis, found in temperate reef waters of Australasia
- serve sb right — If you say it serves someone right when something unpleasant happens to them, you mean that it is their own fault and you have no sympathy for them.
- shooting brake — station wagon.
- sitting member — a current member of parliament
- sleeping berth — a bunk for sleeping on on a train or boat
- sovereign debt — the debt of a national government, esp debt that is issued in a foreign currency
- 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.