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14-letter words containing g, u, r

  • bascule bridge — a kind of drawbridge counterweighted so that it can be raised and lowered easily
  • bascule-bridge — a device operating like a balance or seesaw, especially an arrangement of a movable bridge (bascule bridge) by which the rising floor or section is counterbalanced by a weight.
  • bass guitarist — a player of the bass guitar
  • bateleur eagle — an African crested bird of prey, Terathopius ecaudatus, with a short tail and long wings: subfamily Circaetinae, family Accipitridae (hawks, etc)
  • bathing trunks — Bathing trunks are shorts that a man wears when he goes swimming.
  • beta geminorum — Pollux
  • big blue river — a river in SE Nebraska, flowing E and SE to the Kansas (Kaw) River. 300 miles (483 km) long.
  • bildungsromane — a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
  • biscuit-firing — the first firing given to pottery, before it is glazed
  • blood grouping — the ascertainment of a person's blood group
  • blood-curdling — A blood-curdling sound or story is very frightening and horrible.
  • blue straggler — one of a small group of blue stars within a cluster that falls near the main sequence even though other stars of its color have evolved off the main sequence.
  • 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.
  • bracket fungus — any saprotroph or parasitic fungus of the basidiomycetous family Polyporaceae, growing as a shelflike mass (bracket) from tree trunks and producing spores in vertical tubes in the bracket
  • braunschweiger — a smoked liver sausage, named after the city of Braunschweig
  • bremsstrahlung — the radiation produced when an electrically charged particle, esp an electron, is slowed down by the electric field of an atomic nucleus or an atomic ion
  • 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
  • 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 surplus — the amount by which government income from taxation, customs duties, etc, exceeds expenditure in any one fiscal year
  • budgetary year — the financial year a budget is drawn up for
  • 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
  • bulgur (wheat) — wheat that has been cooked, dried, and coarsely ground: used to make tabbouleh or, sometimes, pilaf or couscous
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • canons regular — one of a body of dignitaries or prebendaries attached to a cathedral or a collegiate church; a member of the chapter of a cathedral or a collegiate church.
  • 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
  • caprimulgiform — Of or pertaining to the taxonomic order Caprimulgiformes.
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