15-letter words containing t, a, g, b
- heavy breathing — stertorous breathing or breathing done with difficulty
- humphrey bogart — Humphrey (DeForest) ("Bogie"or"Bogey") 1899–57, U.S. motion-picture actor.
- interchangeable — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
- interchangeably — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
- irrefragability — How irrefragable something is.
- it's a good job — If you say it's a good thing, or in British English it's a good job, that something is the case, you mean that it is fortunate.
- job enlargement — a widening of the range of tasks performed by an employee in order to provide variety in the activities undertaken
- knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
- knight banneret — banneret1 (def 2).
- label switching — (networking) A routing technique that uses information from existing IP routing protocols to identify IP datagrams with labels and forwards them to a modified switch or router, which then uses the labels to switch the datagrams through the network. Label switching combines the best attributes of data link layer (layer two) switching (as in ATM and Frame Relay) with the best attributes of network layer (layer three) routing (as in IP). Prior to the formation of the MPLS Working Group in 1997, a number of vendors had announced and/or implemented proprietary label switching.
- labour shortage — a shortage or insufficiency of qualified candidates for employment (in an economy, country, etc)
- lapland bunting — a passerine bird: Calcarius lapponicus
- largemouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.
- leaf-footed bug — any of numerous plant-sucking or predaceous bugs of the family Coreidae, typically having leaflike legs: several species are pests of food crops.
- league football — rugby league football
- lubricating oil — an oily substance that is used to cover or treat machinery so as to lessen friction
- magnetic bottle — Physics. a magnetic field so shaped that it can confine a plasma: used in a proposed design for fusion reactors.
- magnetic bubble — a tiny mobile magnetized area within a magnetic material, the basis of one type of solid-state storage medium (magnetic bubble memory)
- malpighian tube — one of a group of long, slender excretory tubules at the anterior end of the hindgut in insects and other terrestrial arthropods.
- marriageability — The condition of being marriageable.
- megalithic tomb — a burial chamber constructed of large stones, either underground or covered by a mound and usually consisting of long transepted corridors (gallery graves) or of a distinct chamber and passage (passage graves). The tombs may date from the 4th millennium bc
- might-have-been — that which might have occurred if it were not for other events
- morale-boosting — A morale-boosting action or event makes people feel more confident and cheerful.
- moreton bay bug — a flattish edible shellfish, Thenus orientalis, of Northern Australian waters
- moreton bay fig — a large Australian fig tree, Ficus macrophylla, having glossy leaves and smooth bark
- mortgage broker — agent who matches house buyer with mortgage lender
- nation-building — Journalists sometimes use nation-building to refer to government policies that are designed to create a strong sense of national identity.
- negative number — a number that is less than 0
- neighbor states — the states or countries next to another state or country
- object exchange — (protocol) (OBEX) A Bluetooth protocol in the Core Protocol Stack for data exchange.
- object language — the language to which a metalanguage refers.
- obsidian dating — a method of dating obsidian artifacts or debitage by calculating how long it has taken to produce a given thickness of a hydration layer within such matter.
- obtuse triangle — a triangle with one obtuse angle.
- opening batsman — a player who bats the first ball in cricket
- operating table — table on which surgery is performed
- painted bunting — a brilliantly colored bunting, Passerina ciris, of the southern U.S.
- pattern bombing — aerial bombing in which bombs are dropped on a target in a predetermined pattern.
- photodegradable — (of a substance) capable of being broken down by light.
- piggyback plant — a plant, Tolmiea menziesii, of the saxifrage family, native to western North America, that produces new plants at the base of its broad, hairy leaves and that is popular as a houseplant.
- planning blight — the harmful effects of uncertainty about likely restrictions on the types and extent of future development in a particular area on the quality of life of its inhabitants and the normal growth of its business and community enterprises
- plug compatible — of or relating to computers or peripheral devices that are functionally equivalent to, and may be substituted for, other models.
- plug-compatible — of or relating to computers or peripheral devices that are functionally equivalent to, and may be substituted for, other models.
- programmability — capable of being programmed.
- publicity agent — A publicity agent is a person whose job is to make sure that a large number of people know about a person, show, or event so that they are successful.
- quarter binding — a style of bookbinding in which the spine is leather and the sides are cloth or paper.
- rechargeability — (of a storage battery) capable of being charged repeatedly. Compare cordless (def 2).
- recognizability — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- regimental band — a band made up of a military formation varying in size from a battalion to a number of battalions
- right-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position following the head, as the phrase the house of the friend of my brother; having most of the constituents on the right in a tree diagram (opposed to left-branching).
- right-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the right, or starboard, side.