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14-letter words containing g, e, t, b

  • 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.
  • salvageability — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
  • 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.
  • shabby-genteel — trying to maintain dignity and self-respect despite shabbiness.
  • 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.
  • st. petersburg — Also called Russian Empire. Russian Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Capital: St. Petersburg (1703–1917).
  • stage business — business (def 10).
  • staggering bob — a newborn calf.
  • stockbrokerage — a stockbroker's work or business
  • strikebreaking — action directed at breaking up a strike of workers.
  • sturmabteilung — a political militia of the Nazi party, organized about 1923 and notorious for its violence and terrorism up to 1934, when it was purged and reorganized as an instrument of physical training and political indoctrination of German men; Brown Shirts.
  • sub-government — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
  • subaggregation — a subtotalling
  • sugar diabetes — diabetes mellitus
  • suggestibility — subject to or easily influenced by suggestion.
  • suggestion box — receptacle for customers' comments
  • tablet coating — A tablet coating is a covering over a tablet, used to mask the taste, make it easier to swallow, or protect the active medication inside.
  • telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
  • tenpin bowling — Tenpin bowling is a game in which you roll a heavy ball down a narrow track toward a group of wooden objects and try to knock down as many of them as possible.
  • tensor bandage — a wide elasticized bandage that supports injured joints
  • the betting is — If you say the betting is that something will happen or is true, you are suggesting that it is very likely to happen or to be true.
  • the blue angel — a legendary German expressionist film of 1930, the first major German sound film, starring Marlene Dietrich
  • the mabinogion — a collection of Welsh tales based on old Celtic legends and mythology in which magic and the supernatural play a large part
  • the-mabinogion — a collection of medieval Welsh romances that were translated (1838–49) by Lady Charlotte Guest.
  • thorough brace — either of two strong braces or bands of leather supporting the body of a coach or other vehicle and connecting the front and back springs.
  • through bridge — a bridge in which the track is carried by the lower horizontal members
  • thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
  • to be bursting — to want desperately to urinate
  • to go belly-up — (of a company) to not have enough money to pay its debts
  • to ring a bell — If you say that something rings a bell, you mean that it reminds you of something, but you cannot remember exactly what it is.
  • training table — a table in a dining hall, as at a college, where athletes are provided with special meals to aid their conditioning.
  • 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.
  • turbine engine — a rotary engine that converts kinetic energy of a moving fluid (water, steam, air, or combustion products of a fuel) into mechanical energy
  • turbo debugger — (programming)   A source-level debugger designed for use with Borland and other compilers.
  • turbogenerator — a large electrical generator driven by a steam turbine
  • turnip cabbage — kohlrabi.
  • un-get-at-able — very difficult to get hold of or get close to
  • unintelligible — not intelligible; not capable of being understood.
  • unintelligibly — not intelligible; not capable of being understood.
  • upgradeability — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
  • vaginal tablet — A vaginal tablet is a tablet inserted into the vagina to treat infection.
  • vegetable dish — a dish designed to serve vegetables from
  • vegetable silk — a fine, glossy fiber, similar to silk cotton, from the seeds of a spiny Brazilian tree, Chorisia speciosa.
  • vegetable soup — soup made with vegetables
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