13-letter words containing a, b, o, g
- disobligation — the state of being without obligation
- disobligatory — not obligatory
- double dagger — a mark (‡) used for references, as footnotes.
- double garage — a garage that can hold two vehicles
- double magnum — Jeroboam (def 2).
- 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.
- double-glazed — of, having, or provided with double glazing: double-glazed windows and doors.
- draughtboards — Plural form of draughtboard.
- draughtsboard — The board on which draughts is played, resembling a chessboard but (depending on the game variation) often having a side length of ten squares rather than eight.
- drawing board — a rectangular board on which paper is placed or mounted for drawing or drafting.
- durable goods — Durable goods or durables are goods such as televisions or cars which are expected to last a long time, and are bought infrequently.
- eco-labelling — the practice or system of using eco-labels
- edward gibbon — Edward, 1737–94, English historian.
- embryological — Of or pertaining to embryology.
- encourageable — Able to be encouraged; suggestible.
- erin go bragh — Ireland forever
- exobiological — Of or pertaining to exobiology; alien.
- flag football — a form of touch football in which the ball-carrier's progress is stopped when an opponent pulls a flag from the ball-carrier's pocket or belt.
- 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
- football game — soccer match
- gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
- galveston bay — an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico.
- 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.
- ge-pano-carib — a linguistic phylum comprising a large number of aboriginal languages with scattered distribution in South America east of the Andes.
- gelada baboon — a NE African baboon, Theropithecus gelada, with dark brown hair forming a mane over the shoulders, a bare red chest, and a ridged muzzle: family Cercopithecidae
- gerontophobia — a fear of old people.
- get a bead on — a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
- ghettoblaster — Alternative form of ghetto blaster.
- gladstone bag — a small rectangular suitcase hinged to open into two compartments of equal size.
- glass-blowing — the art or process of forming or shaping a mass of molten or heat-softened glass into ware by blowing air into it through a tube.
- global search — a word-processing operation in which a complete computer file or set of files is searched for every occurrence of a particular word or other sequence of characters
- globalisation — internationalisation
- globalization — the act of globalizing, or extending to other or all parts of the world: the globalization of manufacturing.
- globe theatre — a theater on the south bank of the Thames in London, 1599–1613: many of Shakespeare's plays were first produced here.
- go over-board — over the side of a ship or boat, especially into or in the water: to fall overboard.
- go to bat for — Sports. the wooden club used in certain games, as baseball and cricket, to strike the ball. a racket, especially one used in badminton or table tennis. a whip used by a jockey. the act of using a club or racket in a game. the right or turn to use a club or racket.
- go to blazes! — go to hell!
- go to the bad — to become wicked, shiftless, etc.; degenerate
- gobar numeral — any of a set of ancient numerals derived from Hindu numerals
- gombeen (man) — a shopkeeper who engages in usury on the side
- good behavior — satisfactory, proper, or polite conduct.
- governability — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
- graffiti-bomb — Military. a projectile, formerly usually spherical, filled with a bursting charge and exploded by means of a fuze, by impact, or otherwise, now generally designed to be dropped from an aircraft.
- grave-robbing — a person who steals valuables from graves and tombs: Graverobbers had emptied the Mayan tomb before archaeologists could examine its contents.
- great lobelia — a North American plant, Lobelia siphilitica, having long, showy clusters of blue flowers.
- groundbreaker — a person who is an originator, innovator, or pioneer in a particular activity.