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14-letter words containing r, i, b, g

  • gender-bending — Informal. one, as a cross-dresser, that blurs differences between the sexes.
  • general public — people in general
  • gilbert patten — Gilbert ("Burt L. Standish") 1866–1945, U.S. writer of adventure stories.
  • girls' brigade — (in Britain) an organization for girls, founded in 1893, with the aim of promoting self-discipline and self-respect
  • give sb a ring — If you give someone a ring, you phone them.
  • global warming — an increase in the earth's average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect.
  • governing body — board, regulatory authority
  • 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.
  • groundbreaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
  • 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.
  • heidelberg jaw — a human lower jaw of early middle Pleistocene age found in 1907 near Heidelberg, Germany.
  • heidelberg man — the primitive human being reconstructed from the Heidelberg jaw.
  • hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
  • huckleberrying — the activity of gathering huckleberries
  • 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.
  • irregular verb — verb with non-standard past tense
  • irving babbitt — Irving, 1865–1933, U.S. educator and critic.
  • jerry-building — the act of building (houses, flats, etc) badly using cheap materials
  • kissing bridge — a covered bridge.
  • knee-trembling — very exciting
  • knobbling roll — a roll for a rolling mill, having a series of regularly shaped projections and depressions on its face.
  • 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).
  • limburg cheese — a semihard white cheese of very strong smell and flavour
  • linear algebra — the branch of mathematics that deals with general statements of relations, utilizing letters and other symbols to represent specific sets of numbers, values, vectors, etc., in the description of such relations.
  • 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.
  • logic variable — (programming)   A variable in a logic programming language which is initially undefined ("unbound") but may get bound to a value or another logic variable during unification of the containing clause with the current goal. The value to which it is bound may contain other variables which may themselves be bound or unbound. For example, when unifying the clause sad(X) :- computer(X, ibmpc). with the goal sad(billgates). the variable X will become bound to the atom "billgates" yielding the new subgoal "computer(billgates, ibmpc)".
  • lugubriousness — The property of being lugubrious.
  • macrobiologist — One who studies macrobiology.
  • macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
  • make a bargain — to agree on terms
  • marine biology — science of sea life
  • marriage bonds — the strong feeling of being united that is associated with marriage
  • microbarograph — a barograph for recording minute fluctuations of atmospheric pressure.
  • microbiologist — the branch of biology dealing with the structure, function, uses, and modes of existence of microscopic organisms.
  • middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
  • misremembering — Present participle of misremember.
  • money-grubbing — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
  • moulding board — a board on which dough is kneaded
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