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15-letter words containing t, i, g, e, r, b

  • ruby grapefruit — a grapefruit with red flesh
  • she'll be right — that's all right; not to worry
  • single-breasted — (of a coat, jacket, etc.) having a front closure directly in the center with only a narrow overlap secured by a single button or row of buttons.
  • slab plastering — coarse plastering, as between the studs in a half-timbered wall.
  • southern blight — a disease of peanuts, tomatoes, and other plants, caused by a fungus, Sclerotium rolfsii, affecting the roots and resulting in rapid wilting.
  • stamford bridge — a village in N England, east of York: site of a battle (1066) in which King Harold of England defeated his brother Tostig and King Harald Hardrada of Norway, three weeks before the Battle of Hastings
  • straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
  • string variable — data on which arithmetical operations will not be performed
  • strobe lighting — a high-intensity flashing beam of light produced by rapid electrical discharges in a tube or by a perforated disc rotating in front of an intense light source: used in discotheques, etc
  • subject-raising — a rule that moves the subject of a complement clause into the clause in which it is embedded, as in the derivation of He is likely to be late from It is likely that he will be late
  • svedberg (unit) — a unit of time, equal to 10-13 second, used in determining the rate of sedimentation of a macromolecule in an ultracentrifuge
  • tamarisk gerbil — gerbil (def 2).
  • thimble-rigging — a sleight-of-hand swindling game in which the operator palms a pellet or pea while appearing to cover it with one of three thimblelike cups, and then, moving the cups about, offers to bet that no one can tell under which cup the pellet or pea lies.
  • traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
  • troubleshooting — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
  • tumbling barrel — a rotating drum for subjecting materials or small manufactured objects, loosely placed inside, to a tumbling action, as to mix materials or to polish objects by friction with one another or with an abrasive.
  • tunbridge wells — a city in SW Kent, in SE England: mineral springs; resort.
  • turbojet engine — a jet-propulsion engine in which air from the atmosphere is compressed for combustion by a turbine-driven compressor.
  • uncategorizable — not able to be categorized or placed into a category
  • uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
  • vegetable ivory — ivory (def 9).
  • weatherboarding — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
  • william gilbertCass, 1859–1934, U.S. architect.
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