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13-letter words containing a, b, i, g, l

  • clearing bath — any solution for removing material from the surface of a photographic image, as silver halide, metallic silver, or a dye or stain.
  • climbing wall — a specially constructed wall with recessed and projecting holds to give practice in rock climbing; a feature of many sports centres
  • coachbuilding — the manufacture of bodies for cars, buses, and coaches
  • coagulability — The ability to coagulate, of being coagulable.
  • collaborating — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
  • confabulating — Present participle of confabulate.
  • cooling board — a plank for laying out a corpse.
  • copyrightable — the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc.: works granted such right by law on or after January 1, 1978, are protected for the lifetime of the author or creator and for a period of 70 years after his or her death.
  • cyberslacking — (informal) Use of the Internet during work hours for unrelated tasks.
  • cyberstalking — Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet to contact someone or find out information about them in a way that is annoying or frightening.
  • dabbling duck — any of numerous shallow-water ducks, especially of the genus Anas, that typically feed by upending and dabbling (contrasted with diving duck).
  • dangleberries — Plural form of dangleberry.
  • degradability — susceptible to chemical breakdown.
  • demothballing — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.
  • desobligeante — a type of carriage seating only one person
  • destabilising — Present participle of destabilise.
  • destabilizing — Present participle of destabilize.
  • detribalizing — Present participle of detribalize.
  • diabetologist — a person who studies diabetes
  • digital badge — a title or icon associated with a user profile or account that attests to the attainment of a skill or rank or the completion of an objective, as on an educational or social media website or a gaming platform.
  • disagreeables — annoying things
  • disassembling — Present participle of disassemble.
  • dischargeable — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
  • disintegrable — Capable of being disintegrated.
  • disobligation — the state of being without obligation
  • disobligatory — not obligatory
  • disregardable — to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
  • double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
  • drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
  • eco-labelling — the practice or system of using eco-labels
  • elgin marbles — a group of 5th-century bc Greek sculptures originally decorating the Parthenon in Athens, brought to England by Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin (1766–1841), and now at the British Museum
  • embryological — Of or pertaining to embryology.
  • equilibrating — Present participle of equilibrate.
  • excalibur bug — (humour, programming)   The legendary bug that, despite repeated valliant attempts, none but the true king of all programmers can fix. Named after the sword in the stone in the legend of King Arthur.
  • exobiological — Of or pertaining to exobiology; alien.
  • fatigableness — the quality of being fatigable
  • fatiguability — Alternative form of fatigability.
  • flabergasting — Present participle of flabergast.
  • floating debt — short-term government borrowing, esp by the issue of three-month Treasury bills
  • floating ribs — the eleventh and twelfth pairs of ribs, not attached to the breastbone or to other ribs but only to the vertebrae
  • flooring brad — a brad having a very small head, made in lengths from 2 to 4 inches (5 to 10 cm).
  • flying boxcar — a large airplane designed to carry cargo.
  • fooling about — the act of speaking or acting in a playful, teasing, or jesting manner
  • fulbright act — an act of Congress (1946) by which funds derived chiefly from the sale of U.S. surplus property abroad are made available to U.S. citizens for study, research, and teaching in foreign countries as well as to foreigners to engage in similar activities in the U.S.
  • gabriel fauré — Gabriel Urbain [ga-bree-el oor-ban] /ga briˈɛl urˈbɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1845–1924, French composer.
  • gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
  • games library — a type of library for video games where games (usually downloaded via the internet) can be paid for per use rather than be bought at full price
  • garcia robles — Alfonso [al-fon-soh,, -zoh;; Spanish ahl-fawn-saw] /ælˈfɒn soʊ,, -zoʊ;; Spanish ɑlˈfɔn sɔ/ (Show IPA), 1911–91, Mexican diplomat: Nobel Prize 1982.
  • generalisable — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizable.
  • generalizable — to infer (a general principle, trend, etc.) from particular facts, statistics, or the like.
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