14-letter words containing t, b, g
- conglobulation — the act of conglobing
- cotton batting — cotton wadding, as used in quilt making
- counter-gambit — a countermove
- county borough — (in England and Wales from 1888 to 1974 and in Wales from 1996) a borough administered independently of any higher tier of local government
- cybersquatting — Cybersquatting involves buying an Internet domain name that might be wanted by another person, business, or organization with the intention of selling it to them and making a profit.
- daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
- debugging tool — debugger
- defibrillating — Present participle of defibrillate.
- deflagrability — the state or quality of being deflagrable
- diagnosability — the quality of being diagnosable
- digestibleness — The quality of being digestible.
- diplomatic bag — A diplomatic bag is a bag or container in which mail is sent to and from foreign embassies. Diplomatic bags are protected by law, so that they are not opened by anyone except the official or embassy they are addressed to.
- disambiguating — Present participle of disambiguate.
- disambiguation — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
- discharge tube — gas tube.
- double-tongued — deceitful; hypocritical.
- drafting board — drawing board.
- draughts board — A draughts board is a square board for playing draughts, with 64 equal-sized, black and white squares.
- dressing table — a table or stand, usually surmounted by a mirror, in front of which a person sits while dressing, applying makeup, etc.
- effort bargain — a bargain in which the reward to an employee is based on the effort that the employee puts in
- electrobiology — (physics, biology) The study of the production and use of electricity by biological organisms.
- energy obesity — the practice of being wasteful of energy in the form of electricity, fossil fuels, etc, in one's day-to-day life
- engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
- exacerbatingly — In an exacerbating way; so as to aggravate or make worse.
- extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
- featherbedding — the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives.
- feeding bottle — infant's feeding receptacle
- fibrocartilage — a type of cartilage having a large number of fibers.
- fichtelgebirge — a mountain range in E central Germany, near the Czech border. Highest peak, Schneeberg, 3447 feet (1051 meters).
- fighter-bomber — an aircraft that combines the functions of a fighter and a bomber.
- filing cabinet — office: tall set of drawers
- finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
- finnbogadottir — Vigdís [Icelandic vig-dees] /Icelandic vɪgˈdis/ (Show IPA), born 1930, Icelandic political leader: president 1980–96.
- flabbergasting — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
- flabberghasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabberghast.
- flotation bags — bags inflated to keep a spacecraft or helicopter afloat and upright when it lands in the sea
- flying dustbin — petard (def 3).
- frege, gottlob — Gottlob Frege
- fringe benefit — any of various benefits, as free life or health insurance, paid holidays, a pension, etc., received by an employee in addition to regular pay.
- gabriel tellez — (Gabriel Téllez) 1571?–1648, Spanish dramatist.
- gambling debts — debts acquired as a result of money spent gambling
- gastric bypass — a surgical procedure by which all or part of the stomach is circumvented by anastomosis to the small intestine, performed to overcome obstruction or in the treatment of morbid obesity.
- gate-leg table — a table having drop leaves supported by gate legs.
- gay liberation — a political and social movement to combat legal and social discrimination against homosexuals.
- get hold of sb — If you get hold of someone, you manage to contact them.
- get one's back — situated at or in the rear: at the back door; back fence.
- get the bounce — to dismiss or be dismissed from a job
- ghetto blaster — a large, powerful portable radio, especially as carried and played by a pedestrian or used outdoors in an urban area.
- giant puffball — a puffball, Calvatia gigantea, that is the largest of its kind, known to have grown to more than 5 feet (1.6 meters) in circumference.
- gibbs function — the thermodynamic function of a system that is equal to its enthalpy minus the product of its absolute temperture and entropy: a decrease in the function is equal to the maximum amount of work available exclusive of that due to pressure times volume change during a reversible, isothermal, isobaric process.