14-letter words containing t, a, g, b
- grow the beard — (of a TV series) to gain credibility or improve in quality during the course of a series following a specified development
- grylloblattids — Plural form of grylloblattid.
- guantanamo bay — a bay on the SE coast of Cuba.
- 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.
- hanging basket — suspended woven container for plants
- hastings banda — Hastings Kamuzu [kah-moo-zoo] /kɑˈmu zu/ (Show IPA), 1906–97, Malawi physician, political leader, and public official: 1st president of Malawi 1966–94.
- have bought it — to be killed
- impregnability — strong enough to resist or withstand attack; not to be taken by force, unconquerable: an impregnable fort.
- in a bad light — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- 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.
- irving babbitt — Irving, 1865–1933, U.S. educator and critic.
- jacobite glass — an English drinking glass of the late 17th or early 18th century, engraved with Jacobite mottoes and symbols.
- king of beasts — the lion.
- lactoglobulins — Plural form of lactoglobulin.
- lambda lifting — A program transformation to remove free variables. An expression containing a free variable is replaced by a function applied to that variable. E.g. f x = g 3 where g y = y + x x is a free variable of g so it is added as an extra argument: f x = g 3 x where g y x = y + x Functions like this with no free variables are known as supercombinators and are traditionally given upper-case names beginning with "$". This transformation tends to produce many supercombinators of the form f x = g x which can be eliminated by eta reduction and substitution. Changing the order of the parameters may also allow more optimisations. References to global (top-level) constants and functions are not transformed to function parameters though they are technically free variables. A closely related technique is closure conversion. See also Full laziness.
- lambeth degree — an honorary degree conferred by the archbishop of Canterbury in divinity, arts, law, medicine, or music.
- 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).
- macrobiologist — One who studies macrobiology.
- margaret brent — Margaret, 1600?–1671? U.S. colonial landowner, born in England: regarded as an early feminist.
- megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
- megavertebrate — a very big vertebrate, such as a rhinoceros
- methaemoglobin — a brownish compound of oxygen and hemoglobin, formed in the blood, as by the use of certain drugs.
- natural bridge — a natural limestone bridge in western Virginia. 215 feet (66 meters) high; 90 feet (27 meters) span.
- navigation bar — (web) (Always abbreviated "nav bar") On a website, a prominently displayed set of links to important sections of the site.
- non-negotiable — capable of being negotiated: a negotiable salary demand.
- object program — a computer program translated from the equivalent source program into machine language by the compiler or assembler
- obligatoriness — The quality or state of being obligatory.
- opening gambit — a preliminary or opening tactic
- organizability — The suitability or potential for organization.
- palaebiologist — a person who studies or is an expert in palaebiology
- paleobiologist — the branch of paleontology dealing with fossil life forms, especially with reference to their origin, structure, evolution, etc.
- partridgeberry — a North American trailing plant, Mitchella repens, of the madder family, having roundish evergreen leaves, fragrant white flowers, and scarlet berries.
- plotting board — Navigation. a transparent table on a ship, used as a plotting sheet.
- quarterbacking — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
- rammelsbergite — a mineral, essentially nickel diarsenide, NiAs 2 .
- refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
- registrability — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
- retail banking — banking for individual customers
- right of abode — If someone is given the right of abode in a particular country, they are legally allowed to live there.
- root vegetable — edible starchy tuber
- running battle — When two groups of people fight a running battle, they keep attacking each other in various parts of a place.
- saber rattling — a show or threat of military power, especially as used by a nation to impose its policies on other countries.
- saber-rattling — a show or threat of military power, especially as used by a nation to impose its policies on other countries.