14-letter words containing g, i, b, s, t
- cognoscibility — capable of being known.
- 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.
- diagnosability — the quality of being diagnosable
- digestibleness — The quality of being digestible.
- disambiguating — Present participle of disambiguate.
- disambiguation — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
- 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.
- energy obesity — the practice of being wasteful of energy in the form of electricity, fossil fuels, etc, in one's day-to-day life
- extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
- flabbergasting — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
- flotation bags — bags inflated to keep a spacecraft or helicopter afloat and upright when it lands in the sea
- flying dustbin — petard (def 3).
- gambling debts — debts acquired as a result of money spent gambling
- gastric bypass — a surgical procedure by which all or part of the stomach is circumvented by anastomosis to the small intestine, performed to overcome obstruction or in the treatment of morbid obesity.
- gibbs function — the thermodynamic function of a system that is equal to its enthalpy minus the product of its absolute temperture and entropy: a decrease in the function is equal to the maximum amount of work available exclusive of that due to pressure times volume change during a reversible, isothermal, isobaric process.
- give sb notice — If an employer gives an employee notice, the employer tells the employee that he or she must leave his or her job within a short fixed period of time.
- globalizations — Plural form of globalization.
- grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
- grylloblattids — Plural form of grylloblattid.
- 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.
- haight-ashbury — a district of San Francisco, in the central part of the city: a center for hippies and the drug culture in the 1960s.
- hanging basket — suspended woven container for plants
- hastings banda — Hastings Kamuzu [kah-moo-zoo] /kɑˈmu zu/ (Show IPA), 1906–97, Malawi physician, political leader, and public official: 1st president of Malawi 1966–94.
- holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
- hybrid testing — (testing) A combination of top-down testing with bottom-up testing of prioritised or available components.
- hydrobiologist — someone who studies or specializes in hydrobiology
- jacobite glass — an English drinking glass of the late 17th or early 18th century, engraved with Jacobite mottoes and symbols.
- king of beasts — the lion.
- lactoglobulins — Plural form of lactoglobulin.
- macrobiologist — One who studies macrobiology.
- microbiologist — the branch of biology dealing with the structure, function, uses, and modes of existence of microscopic organisms.
- neurobiologist — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
- nursing bottle — a bottle with a rubber nipple, from which an infant sucks milk, water, etc.
- obligatoriness — The quality or state of being obligatory.
- palaebiologist — a person who studies or is an expert in palaebiology
- paleobiologist — the branch of paleontology dealing with fossil life forms, especially with reference to their origin, structure, evolution, etc.
- rammelsbergite — a mineral, essentially nickel diarsenide, NiAs 2 .
- registrability — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
- 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.
- salvageability — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
- 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
- skirting board — fabric for making skirts.
- sleeping berth — a bunk for sleeping on on a train or boat