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

  • branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
  • breaking point — If something or someone has reached breaking point, they have so many problems or difficulties that they can no longer cope with them, and may soon collapse or be unable to continue.
  • breast-beating — public or ostentatious expression of guilt, remorse, or sorrow
  • breast-feeding — to nurse (a baby) at the breast; suckle.
  • breathtakingly — thrillingly beautiful, remarkable, astonishing, exciting, or the like: a breathtaking performance.
  • breeding stock — animals specifically kept to breed from
  • bridge circuit — any of several networks, such as a Wheatstone bridge, consisting of two branches across which a measuring device is connected. The resistance, capacitance, etc, of one component can be determined from the known values of the others when the voltage in each branch is balanced
  • bridge fluting — (on the stem of a drinking glass) flutes or facets continuing onto the underside of the bowl.
  • bring onstream — To bring onstream a plant, mine, oilfield, etc. is to start production there.
  • bring sth home — To bring something home to someone means to make them understand how important or serious it is.
  • bring to terms — to reduce to submission; force to agree
  • british legion — (in Britain) a national social club for veterans of the armed forces.
  • bucket brigade — a line of persons passing buckets of water along in trying to put out a fire
  • budget deficit — the amount by which government expenditure exceeds income from taxation, customs duties, etc, in any one fiscal year
  • budget heading — a heading in a budget under which an expenditure is listed
  • bug-compatible — Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with fossils or misfeatures in other programs or (especially) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1.0."
  • building trade — the economic sector comprising all companies and workers involved in construction
  • burnt offering — a sacrificial offering burnt, usually on an altar, to honour, propitiate, or supplicate a deity
  • burying beetle — a beetle of the genus Necrophorous, which buries the dead bodies of small animals by excavating beneath them, using the corpses as food for themselves and their larvae: family Silphidae
  • business agent — a representative of a labor union local, who investigates working conditions, negotiates contracts, etc.
  • butterfingered — a person who frequently drops things; clumsy person.
  • cable trunking — Cable trunking is an enclosure usually with a rectangular cross section, and with one removable or hinged side, that is used to protect cables and provide space for other electrical equipment.
  • capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
  • carpet bombing — Carpet bombing is heavy bombing from aircraft, with the intention of hitting as many places as possible in a particular area.
  • carpet bowling — a form of bowls played indoors on a strip of carpet, at the centre of which lies an obstacle round which the bowl has to pass
  • cartilage bone — any bone that develops within cartilage rather than in a fibrous tissue membrane
  • cartridge belt — a belt with pockets for cartridge clips or loops for cartridges
  • cigarette burn — a burn created by a cigarette
  • cigarette butt — A cigarette butt or a cigarette end is the part of a cigarette that you throw away when you have finished smoking it.
  • cobelligerents — Plural form of cobelligerent.
  • collecting box — a box for the temporary storage of examples or specimens
  • combat fatigue — a psychoneurotic condition characterized by anxiety, irritability, depression, etc., often occurring after prolonged combat in warfare
  • counter-gambit — a countermove
  • cybersquatting — Cybersquatting involves buying an Internet domain name that might be wanted by another person, business, or organization with the intention of selling it to them and making a profit.
  • debugging tool — debugger
  • defibrillating — Present participle of defibrillate.
  • deflagrability — the state or quality of being deflagrable
  • digestibleness — The quality of being digestible.
  • discharge tube — gas tube.
  • dressing table — a table or stand, usually surmounted by a mirror, in front of which a person sits while dressing, applying makeup, etc.
  • effort bargain — a bargain in which the reward to an employee is based on the effort that the employee puts in
  • electrobiology — (physics, biology) The study of the production and use of electricity by biological organisms.
  • energy obesity — the practice of being wasteful of energy in the form of electricity, fossil fuels, etc, in one's day-to-day life
  • engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
  • exacerbatingly — In an exacerbating way; so as to aggravate or make worse.
  • extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
  • 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.
  • feeding bottle — infant's feeding receptacle
  • fibrocartilage — a type of cartilage having a large number of fibers.
  • fichtelgebirge — a mountain range in E central Germany, near the Czech border. Highest peak, Schneeberg, 3447 feet (1051 meters).
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