14-letter words containing g, r, b
- 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
- bursting point — the point at which normal capacity is exceeded.
- 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
- burying ground — a burial ground.
- bush telegraph — a means of communication between primitive peoples over large areas, as by drum beats
- butterfingered — a person who frequently drops things; clumsy person.
- button-through — (of a dress or skirt) fastened with buttons from top to hem
- butylene group — any of four bivalent isomeric groups having the formula –C 4 H 8 –.
- buying manager — The buying manager of a store is a senior employee whose job is to manage the purchase and delivery of products and supplies, maintaining stock levels.
- 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.
- 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.
- cambridge blue — a lightish blue colour
- cambridge lisp — A flavour of Lisp using BCPL. Sources owned by Fitznorman partners.
- cambridgeshire — a county of E England, in East Anglia: includes the former counties of the Isle of Ely and Huntingdon and lies largely in the Fens: Peterborough became an independent unitary authority in 1998. Administrative centre: Cambridge. Pop (excluding Peterborough): 571 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Peterborough): 3068 sq km (184 sq miles)
- carbon trading — Carbon trading is the practice of buying and selling the right to produce carbon dioxide emissions, so that people, countries or companies who use a lot of fuel and electricity can buy rights from those that do not use so much.
- carbonyl group — the bivalent radical CO, occurring in acids, ketones, aldehydes, and their derivatives.
- carboxyl group — functional group in organic acids
- 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
- celery cabbage — Chinese cabbage.
- charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
- chopping board — A chopping board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
- christiansburg — a town in SW Virginia.
- chronobiologic — relating to chronobiology
- 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.
- circumscribing — Present participle of circumscribe.
- ciudad obregon — a city in W Mexico.
- clapper bridge — a primitive type of bridge in which planks or slabs of stone rest on piles of stones
- climbing frame — A climbing frame is a structure that has been made for children to climb and play on. It consists of metal or wooden bars joined together.
- climbing irons — spiked steel frames worn on the feet to assist in climbing trees, ice slopes, etc
- climbing perch — any of a genus (Anabas) of freshwater gouramies of Southeast Asia and Africa that can live out of water briefly and travel short distances over land
- 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.
- colouring book — A colouring book is a book of simple drawings which children can colour in.
- combining form — A combining form is a word that is used, or used with a particular meaning, only when joined to another word. For example, '-legged' as in 'four-legged' and '-fold' as in 'fivefold' are combining forms.
- congressmember — a member of a congress, especially of the U.S. House of Representatives.
- counter-gambit — a countermove
- county borough — (in England and Wales from 1888 to 1974 and in Wales from 1996) a borough administered independently of any higher tier of local government
- 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 bridging — bridging composed of crisscross pieces of wood.
- cross-breeding — the process of causing animals to mate with another species, or of causing plants to reproduce with another species
- cryobiological — of or relating to cryobiology
- cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
- 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.