14-letter words containing g, u, i
- bathing trunks — Bathing trunks are shorts that a man wears when he goes swimming.
- battle fatigue — Battle fatigue is a mental condition of anxiety and depression caused by the stress of fighting in a war.
- bellingshausen — Fabian Gottlieb von [fey-bee-uh n-got-leeb von] /ˈfeɪ bi ənˈgɒt lib vɒn/ (Show IPA), (Faddey Faddeyevich Bellingshauzen) 1778–1852, Russian naval officer and explorer.
- beta geminorum — Pollux
- bible-thumping — an evangelist or other person who quotes the Bible frequently, especially as a means of exhortation or rebuke.
- big blue river — a river in SE Nebraska, flowing E and SE to the Kansas (Kaw) River. 300 miles (483 km) long.
- big house, the — a penitentiary
- bildungsromane — a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
- biolinguistics — the study of language functions as they relate to or derive from the biological characteristics of an organism.
- biscuit-firing — the first firing given to pottery, before it is glazed
- block faulting — the process by which tensional forces in the earth's crust cause large bodies of rock to founder.
- blood grouping — the ascertainment of a person's blood group
- blood-curdling — A blood-curdling sound or story is very frightening and horrible.
- boarding house — A boarding house is a house which people pay to stay in for a short time.
- bobbin turning — turning of furniture legs, stretchers, etc., to resemble a continuous row of bobbins.
- bottle turning — the turning of the legs of chairs, tables, etc., in manufacturing to give certain sections an ornamental, bottlelike form.
- braunschweiger — a smoked liver sausage, named after the city of Braunschweig
- bridge circuit — any of several networks, such as a Wheatstone bridge, consisting of two branches across which a measuring device is connected. The resistance, capacitance, etc, of one component can be determined from the known values of the others when the voltage in each branch is balanced
- bridge fluting — (on the stem of a drinking glass) flutes or facets continuing onto the underside of the bowl.
- bridge-builder — a person who attempts to connect or reconcile opposing parties
- british guiana — Guyana
- brownie guider — the adult leader of a pack of Brownie Guides
- bubonic plague — Bubonic plague is a serious infectious disease spread by rats. It killed many people during the Middle Ages.
- bucket brigade — a line of persons passing buckets of water along in trying to put out a fire
- bucking bronco — an untamed horse that cowboys try to ride in a rodeo
- budget deficit — the amount by which government expenditure exceeds income from taxation, customs duties, etc, in any one fiscal year
- budget heading — a heading in a budget under which an expenditure is listed
- bug-compatible — Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with fossils or misfeatures in other programs or (especially) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1.0."
- building block — If you describe something as a building block of something, you mean it is one of the separate parts that combine to make that thing.
- building paper — any of various types of heavy-duty paper that usually consist of bitumen reinforced with fibre sandwiched between two sheets of kraft paper: used in damp-proofing or as insulation between the soil and a road surface
- building trade — the economic sector comprising all companies and workers involved in construction
- building works — construction projects
- bullion fringe — a thick gold or silver wire or fringed cord used as a trimming, as on military uniforms
- bunching onion — a multistemmed onion plant resembling the scallion that does not form a real bulb, used in Asian cookery.
- bungee jumping — If someone goes bungee jumping, they jump from a high place such as a bridge or cliff with a long piece of strong elastic cord tied around their ankle connecting them to the bridge or cliff.
- bungee-jumping — the sport of jumping off a high structure to which one is attached by bungee cords, so that the body springs back just short of hitting the ground or water.
- 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.
- business agent — a representative of a labor union local, who investigates working conditions, negotiates contracts, etc.
- business angel — A business angel is a person who gives financial support to a commercial venture and receives a share of any profits from it, but who does not expect to be involved in its management.
- butterfingered — a person who frequently drops things; clumsy person.
- 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.
- 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.
- cadmium orange — a yellow color approaching orange.
- cambridge blue — a lightish blue colour
- cancer-causing — having the ability to induce the growth of a malignant tumour
- cape girardeau — a city in SE Missouri, on the Mississippi River.
- cape guardafui — a cape at the NE tip of Somalia, extending into the Indian Ocean