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13-letter words containing g, e, t, s, b

  • geissler tube — a sealed glass tube with platinum connections at the ends, containing rarefied gas made luminous by an electrical discharge.
  • genre-busting — not conforming to established patterns, styles, etc
  • get rid of sb — If you get rid of someone who is causing problems for you or who you do not like, you do something to prevent them affecting you any more, for example by making them leave.
  • ghettoblaster — Alternative form of ghetto blaster.
  • gibson desert — a desert in W central Australia: scrub; salt marshes. About 85,000 sq. mi. (220,000 sq. km).
  • give sb heart — If something gives you heart, it makes you feel more confident or happy about something.
  • gladstone bag — a small rectangular suitcase hinged to open into two compartments of equal size.
  • globe thistle — any of various Old World, thistlelike, composite plants of the genus Echinops, having dense heads of tubular blue or white flowers.
  • globetrotters — Plural form of globetrotter.
  • go to blazes! — go to hell!
  • great basinet — a basinet having a beaver permanently attached.
  • great bustard — a large bustard, Otis tarda, of southern and central Europe and western and central Asia, having a wingspread of about 8 feet (2.4 meters).
  • great grimsby — seaport in Humberside, NE England, at the mouth of the Humber estuary: county district pop. 91,000
  • hertogenbosch — 's Hertogenbosch.
  • lamb's tongue — a molding having a deep, symmetrical profile ending in a narrow edge, as in a sash bar.
  • letzeburgesch — a Germanic dialect that is the native language of most of the people of Luxembourg.
  • losing battle — attempt doomed to failure
  • megaloblastic — an abnormally large, immature, and dysfunctional red blood cell found in the blood of persons with pernicious anemia or certain other disorders.
  • nesting table — one of a set of usually three or four small tables that are graduated in size so that they may be stacked on top of one another.
  • nitrogen base — Chemistry, Biochemistry. a nitrogen-containing organic compound that has the chemical properties of a base, especially a pyrimidine or purine: Four nitrogen bases are present in a DNA molecule.
  • nondigestible — Not digestible.
  • pigeon breast — chicken breast.
  • postbourgeois — (in Marxist thought) belonging to a period of society after the decline of the bourgeoisie
  • re-submitting — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
  • riding stable — a place where horses are kept for people to ride
  • sea vegetable — an edible seaweed
  • self-begotten — a past participle of beget.
  • self-doubting — lacking in confidence
  • sewing basket — box for sewing accessories
  • single combat — combat between two persons.
  • skateboarding — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
  • slaughterable — (of an animal) ready for slaughter
  • speaking tube — a tube for conveying the voice over a somewhat limited distance, as from one part of a building or ship to another.
  • spring beauty — any American spring plant belonging to the genus Claytonia, of the purslane family, especially C. virginica, having an elongated cluster of white flowers tinged with pink.
  • stamen blight — a disease of blackberries, characterized by a gray, powdery mass of spores covering the anthers, caused by a fungus, Hapalosphaeria deformans.
  • sterling bloc — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
  • stingless bee — any of certain social, honey-producing tropical bees of the family Apidae, as of the genus Melipona, having a nonfunctional stinger.
  • stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
  • stone boiling — a primitive method of boiling liquid with heated stones
  • store baggage — If a hotel stores baggage, it puts a guest's baggage in a storage room until it is needed by the guest.
  • stringer bead — a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
  • strong breeze — a wind of 25–30 miles per hour (11–13 m/sec).
  • sub-aggregate — formed by the conjunction or collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; total; combined: the aggregate amount of indebtedness.
  • subastringent — slightly astringent.
  • subcategorize — to split into subcategories
  • subcollegiate — of, relating to, or characteristic of subcollege students or a subcollege
  • subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
  • subgeneration — a generation within another generation
  • subgovernment — 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.
  • subjectifying — to make subjective.
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