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14-letter words containing g, o, r, b, e

  • british legion — (in Britain) a national social club for veterans of the armed forces.
  • brownie guider — the adult leader of a pack of Brownie Guides
  • bullion fringe — a thick gold or silver wire or fringed cord used as a trimming, as on military uniforms
  • burghley house — an Elizabethan mansion near Stamford in Lincolnshire: seat of the Cecil family; site of the annual Burghley Horse Trials
  • burnt offering — a sacrificial offering burnt, usually on an altar, to honour, propitiate, or supplicate a deity
  • butylene group — any of four bivalent isomeric groups having the formula –C 4 H 8 –.
  • cabbage looper — the larva of a noctuid moth, Trichoplusia ni, common throughout the U.S. and Canada, that feeds on a wide variety of vegetable crops, especially cabbage and lettuce.
  • 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
  • charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
  • ciudad obregon — a city in W Mexico.
  • cobbler's pegs — a common Australian weed, Bidens pilosa, with spiky peglike awns
  • cobelligerents — Plural form of cobelligerent.
  • coinage bronze — an alloy of 95 percent copper, 4 percent tin, and 1 percent zinc.
  • congressmember — a member of a congress, especially of the U.S. House of Representatives.
  • counter-gambit — a countermove
  • covered bridge — a bridge that is enclosed by a roof and walls.
  • cribbage board — a board, with pegs and holes, used for scoring at cribbage
  • cross-breeding — the process of causing animals to mate with another species, or of causing plants to reproduce with another species
  • daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
  • discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
  • docking bridge — a raised platform running from one side to the other of a ship toward the stern, used by officers for supervising docking operations.
  • double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
  • double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
  • 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
  • fibrocartilage — a type of cartilage having a large number of fibers.
  • fighter-bomber — an aircraft that combines the functions of a fighter and a bomber.
  • finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
  • flowering crab — any of several species and varieties of crab apple trees with small fruits and abundant spring flowers ranging from white to reddish purple
  • folies bergere — a Parisian music hall founded in 1869 and noted for the lavish spectacle and mildly risqué content of its entertainments.
  • frege, gottlob — Gottlob Frege
  • french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
  • garden webworm — the larva of any of several moths, as Hyphantria cunea (fall webworm) or Loxostege similalis (garden webworm) which spins a web over the foliage on which it feeds.
  • gay liberation — a political and social movement to combat legal and social discrimination against homosexuals.
  • george hw bush — Barbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
  • ghetto blaster — a large, powerful portable radio, especially as carried and played by a pedestrian or used outdoors in an urban area.
  • globe amaranth — a plant, Gomphrena globosa, native to the Old World tropics, having dense heads of variously colored flowers that retain their color when cut.
  • go gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
  • golden warbler — yellow warbler.
  • golfer's elbow — a painful inflammation of the muscles on the inside of the forearm caused by exertion in playing golf
  • goose barnacle — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
  • gordon bennett — an exclamation of surprise
  • governableness — The state of being governable.
  • governing body — board, regulatory authority
  • groundbreaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
  • grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
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