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

  • grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
  • grow the beard — (of a TV series) to gain credibility or improve in quality during the course of a series following a specified development
  • 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.
  • interblock gap — the area or space separating consecutive blocks of data or consecutive physical records on an external storage medium.
  • little bighorn — a river flowing N from N Wyoming to S Montana into the Bighorn River: General Custer and troops defeated near its juncture by Indians 1876. 80 miles (130 km) long.
  • megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
  • neurobiologist — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
  • nonbelligerent — of or relating to a country whose status or policy is one of nonbelligerency.
  • nursing bottle — a bottle with a rubber nipple, from which an infant sucks milk, water, etc.
  • object program — a computer program translated from the equivalent source program into machine language by the compiler or assembler
  • obligatoriness — The quality or state of being obligatory.
  • pilgrim bottle — a flat-sided water bottle having two loops at the side of a short neck for a suspending cord or chain.
  • pocket borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough whose representatives in Parliament were controlled by an individual or family.
  • pontoon bridge — a bridge supported by pontoons.
  • right of abode — If someone is given the right of abode in a particular country, they are legally allowed to live there.
  • root vegetable — edible starchy tuber
  • rotten borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough that had very few voters yet was represented in Parliament.
  • shooting brake — station wagon.
  • sovereign debt — the debt of a national government, esp debt that is issued in a foreign currency
  • staggering bob — a newborn calf.
  • stockbrokerage — a stockbroker's work or business
  • 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
  • telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
  • tensor bandage — a wide elasticized bandage that supports injured joints
  • 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
  • to be bursting — to want desperately to urinate
  • 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.
  • 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
  • webster groves — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
  • zygobranchiate — of or relating to zygobranchs or the Zygobranchia genus
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