11-letter words containing a, b, i, o, g
- boil-in-bag — of or being a prepared, often frozen, food sealed and sold in a plastic bag that is immersed in boiling water until the contents are cooked or heated for serving.
- boring clam — piddock
- bossnapping — kidnapping a company executive as part of industrial action
- boulangerie — a bakery shop, specif. one that specializes in breads, rolls, etc.
- bowling bag — a bag for carrying a bowling ball and often bowling shoes or other equipment.
- braggadocio — vain empty boasting
- bridal gown — a wedding dress
- bridge loan — A bridge loan is money that a bank lends you for a short time, for example, so that you can buy a new house before you have sold the one you already own.
- bridgeboard — a board on both sides of a staircase that is cut to support the treads and risers
- bright coal — coal consisting of alternating layers of clarain and vitrain.
- bring about — To bring something about means to cause it to happen.
- bring along — If you bring someone or something along, you bring them with you when you come to a place.
- brobdingnag — in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, a land inhabited by giants about 60 feet tall
- browbeating — to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing.
- burglarious — of, constituting, or inclined to burglary
- car bombing — an instance when a bomb which someone has hidden under or in a car explodes
- carbonating — Present participle of carbonate.
- carbonizing — Present participle of carbonize.
- chibougamau — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- concubinage — cohabitation without legal marriage
- cougar bait — a younger man who is often pursued by older women seeking a sexual relationship: We all agreed he was prime cougar bait.
- dealing box — a box that holds a deck or decks of cards, allowing them to be dealt only one at a time, often used in casino games such as blackjack or chemin de fer.
- diabetology — (medicine) The study of the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes.
- diabolizing — Present participle of diabolize.
- diagnosable — to determine the identity of (a disease, illness, etc.) by a medical examination: The doctor diagnosed the illness as influenza.
- diving boat — a boat used as a tender for divers or others working under water.
- elaborating — Present participle of elaborate.
- emblazoning — Present participle of to emblazon.
- embrocating — Present participle of embrocate.
- fingerboard — (of a violin, cello, etc.) the strip of wood on the neck against which the strings are stopped by the fingers.
- flying boat — a seaplane whose main body is a hull adapted for floating.
- footballing — a game in which two opposing teams of 11 players each defend goals at opposite ends of a field having goal posts at each end, with points being scored chiefly by carrying the ball across the opponent's goal line and by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball over the crossbar between the opponent's goal posts. Compare conversion (def 13), field goal (def 1), safety (def 6), touchdown.
- forebearing — Present participle of forebear.
- forgiveable — Misspelling of forgivable.
- galeophobia — The fear of sharks.
- garbologist — the study of the material discarded by a society to learn what it reveals about social or cultural patterns.
- geobotanist — a person who studies geobotany
- germaphobia — Pathological fear of germs.
- germaphobic — Alternative form of germophobic.
- giambologna — Giovanni da [jee-uh-vah-nee duh;; Italian jaw-vahn-nee dah] /ˌdʒi əˈvɑ ni də;; Italian dʒɔˈvɑn ni dɑ/ (Show IPA), (Jean de Boulogne; Giambologna) c1525–1608, Italian sculptor, born in France.
- gift of gab — an aptitude for speaking fluently, glibly, or persuasively.
- globalising — Present participle of globalise.
- globalizing — Present participle of globalize.
- globigerina — any marine foraminifer of the genus Globigerina, having a calcareous shell, occurring either near the surface of the sea or in the mud at the bottom.
- go bail for — to furnish bail for
- gobsmacking — Causing one to be gobsmacked; astounding, flabbergasting.
- goldbeating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- goldbergian — Rube Goldberg.
- gonimoblast — a spore-bearing filament in the carpogonium of red algae
- gossypiboma — (surgery) A gauze or surgical sponge left inside a patient's body during surgery.