14-letter words containing r, u, n, i, g, b
- jerry-building — the act of building (houses, flats, etc) badly using cheap materials
- lugubriousness — The property of being lugubrious.
- macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
- 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
- mourning bride — a plant, Scabiosa atropurpurea, native to Europe, cultivated for its purple, reddish, or white flowers.
- natural bridge — a natural limestone bridge in western Virginia. 215 feet (66 meters) high; 90 feet (27 meters) span.
- neighbourhoods — Plural form of neighbourhood.
- neurobiologist — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
- nursing bottle — a bottle with a rubber nipple, from which an infant sucks milk, water, etc.
- quarterbacking — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
- rabble-rousing — of, relating to, or characteristic of a rabble-rouser.
- 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
- running battle — When two groups of people fight a running battle, they keep attacking each other in various parts of a place.
- serum globulin — the blood serum component consisting of proteins with a larger molecular weight than serum albumin
- sounding board — a thin, resonant plate of wood forming part of a musical instrument, and so placed as to enhance the power and quality of the tone.
- square-bashing — drill on a barrack square
- sturmabteilung — a political militia of the Nazi party, organized about 1923 and notorious for its violence and terrorism up to 1934, when it was purged and reorganized as an instrument of physical training and political indoctrination of German men; Brown Shirts.
- subaggregation — a subtotalling
- subcontracting — outsourcing of contract work
- subgenerically — in a subgeneric manner; in a way relating to a subgenus
- support buying — buying carried out to support an exchange rate
- thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
- to be bursting — to want desperately to urinate
- tunbridge ware — decorative wooden ware, including tables, trays, boxes, and ornamental objects, produced especially in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Tunbridge Wells, England, with mosaiclike marquetry sawed from square-sectioned wooden rods of different natural colors.
- turbine engine — a rotary engine that converts kinetic energy of a moving fluid (water, steam, air, or combustion products of a fuel) into mechanical energy
- turnip cabbage — kohlrabi.
- under-building — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- unmarriageable — suitable or attractive for marriage: The handsome and successful young man was considered eminently marriageable.
- unrecognizable — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- unrecognizably — in an unrecognizable or unidentifiable manner
- urban planning — the planning and design of urban areas
- wellingborough — a town in central England, in Northamptonshire. Pop: 46 959 (2001)
- winding number — the number of times a closed curve winds around a point not on the curve.
- zingiberaceous — belonging to the Zingiberaceae, the ginger family of plants.