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14-letter words containing b, e, l, g

  • clapper bridge — a primitive type of bridge in which planks or slabs of stone rest on piles of stones
  • climbing frame — A climbing frame is a structure that has been made for children to climb and play on. It consists of metal or wooden bars joined together.
  • climbing perch — any of a genus (Anabas) of freshwater gouramies of Southeast Asia and Africa that can live out of water briefly and travel short distances over land
  • cobbler's pegs — a common Australian weed, Bidens pilosa, with spiky peglike awns
  • cobelligerents — Plural form of cobelligerent.
  • collecting box — a box for the temporary storage of examples or specimens
  • cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
  • debugging tool — debugger
  • defibrillating — Present participle of defibrillate.
  • deflagrability — the state or quality of being deflagrable
  • diagonalisable — (of a square matrix or linear map) able to be diagonalised
  • diagonalizable — (of a square matrix or linear map) able to be diagonalized
  • digestibleness — The quality of being digestible.
  • disbelievingly — In a disbelieving manner; in a manner that is difficult to believe.
  • discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
  • disembowelling — (chiefly, British) present participle of disembowel.
  • dogbane family — the plant family Apocynaceae, characterized by shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants having milky and often poisonous juice, simple opposite leaves, often showy flowers, and fruit usually in dry pods, and including the dogbane, oleander, periwinkle, and plumeria.
  • double digging — a method of digging ground in a series of trenches two spits deep, mixing the soil of the bottom spit with manure, and then transferring the soil from the top spit of one trench to the top spit of the preceding one
  • double glazing — glazing consisting of two thicknesses of glass with a dead air space between them.
  • double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
  • double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • double wedding — a wedding in which two couples marry
  • double-dealing — duplicity; treachery; deception.
  • double-dipping — the act or practice of receiving more than one income or collecting double benefits from the same employer or organization.
  • double-tongued — deceitful; hypocritical.
  • dressing table — a table or stand, usually surmounted by a mirror, in front of which a person sits while dressing, applying makeup, etc.
  • driving barrel — (in a weight-driven clock) the drum turned by the descent of the weight, which drives the clock mechanism.
  • edging lobelia — a trailing lobelia, Lobelia erinus, of southern Africa, having loose clusters of blue flowers.
  • electrobiology — (physics, biology) The study of the production and use of electricity by biological organisms.
  • embarrassingly — In an embarrassing manner.
  • embellishingly — in an embellishing manner
  • energy balance — An energy balance is a consideration of the energy input, output, and consumption or generation in a process or stage.
  • 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.
  • false beginner — a language student who has some knowledge of a language, but who needs to start again from the beginning
  • 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).
  • filing cabinet — office: tall set of drawers
  • finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
  • flabbergasting — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • flabberghasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabberghast.
  • flowering crab — any of several species and varieties of crab apple trees with small fruits and abundant spring flowers ranging from white to reddish purple
  • folies bergere — a Parisian music hall founded in 1869 and noted for the lavish spectacle and mildly risqué content of its entertainments.
  • food labelling — the practice of providing nutritional information on labels on food packaging
  • frege, gottlob — Gottlob Frege
  • french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
  • fungible issue — a bond issued by a company on the same terms as a bond previously issued by that company, although the redemption yield will probably be different
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