14-letter words containing g, r, b, i, t
- finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
- finnbogadottir — Vigdís [Icelandic vig-dees] /Icelandic vɪgˈdis/ (Show IPA), born 1930, Icelandic political leader: president 1980–96.
- flabbergasting — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
- fringe benefit — any of various benefits, as free life or health insurance, paid holidays, a pension, etc., received by an employee in addition to regular pay.
- gabriel tellez — (Gabriel Téllez) 1571?–1648, Spanish dramatist.
- 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.
- gay liberation — a political and social movement to combat legal and social discrimination against homosexuals.
- gilbert patten — Gilbert ("Burt L. Standish") 1866–1945, U.S. writer of adventure stories.
- great zimbabwe — Formerly Southern Rhodesia, Rhodesia. a republic in S Africa: a former British colony and part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; gained independence 1980. 150,330 sq. mi. (389,362 sq. km). Capital: Harare.
- 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.
- hague tribunal — the court of arbitration for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, established at The Hague by the international peace conference of 1899: its panel of jurists nominates a list of persons from which members of the United Nations International Court of Justice are elected.
- 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.
- 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
- impregnability — strong enough to resist or withstand attack; not to be taken by force, unconquerable: an impregnable fort.
- in the bargain — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
- infrangibility — The quality of being infrangible.
- interblock gap — the area or space separating consecutive blocks of data or consecutive physical records on an external storage medium.
- interchangable — Misspelling of interchangeable.
- irving babbitt — Irving, 1865–1933, U.S. educator and critic.
- knee-trembling — very exciting
- left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
- 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.
- macrobiologist — One who studies macrobiology.
- microbiologist — the branch of biology dealing with the structure, function, uses, and modes of existence of microscopic organisms.
- natural bridge — a natural limestone bridge in western Virginia. 215 feet (66 meters) high; 90 feet (27 meters) span.
- navigation bar — (web) (Always abbreviated "nav bar") On a website, a prominently displayed set of links to important sections of the site.
- 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.
- obligatoriness — The quality or state of being obligatory.
- organizability — The suitability or potential for organization.
- partridgeberry — a North American trailing plant, Mitchella repens, of the madder family, having roundish evergreen leaves, fragrant white flowers, and scarlet berries.
- pilgrim bottle — a flat-sided water bottle having two loops at the side of a short neck for a suspending cord or chain.
- plotting board — Navigation. a transparent table on a ship, used as a plotting sheet.
- pontoon bridge — a bridge supported by pontoons.
- quarterbacking — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
- rammelsbergite — a mineral, essentially nickel diarsenide, NiAs 2 .
- re-eligibility — the quality or state of being re-eligible
- refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
- registrability — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
- retail banking — banking for individual customers
- ribbon-cutting — a ceremony marking the official opening of a site, the commencement of its construction, etc., typically involving the cutting of a ribbon suspended as across an entrance
- right of abode — If someone is given the right of abode in a particular country, they are legally allowed to live there.
- running battle — When two groups of people fight a running battle, they keep attacking each other in various parts of a place.
- saber rattling — a show or threat of military power, especially as used by a nation to impose its policies on other countries.