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14-letter words containing a, l, b

  • garden warbler — any of several small brownish-grey European songbirds of the genus Sylvia (warblers), esp S. borin, common in woods and hedges: in some parts of Europe they are esteemed as a delicacy
  • gate-leg table — a table having drop leaves supported by gate legs.
  • gay liberation — a political and social movement to combat legal and social discrimination against homosexuals.
  • general public — people in general
  • ghetto blaster — a large, powerful portable radio, especially as carried and played by a pedestrian or used outdoors in an urban area.
  • giant puffball — a puffball, Calvatia gigantea, that is the largest of its kind, known to have grown to more than 5 feet (1.6 meters) in circumference.
  • gilbert patten — Gilbert ("Burt L. Standish") 1866–1945, U.S. writer of adventure stories.
  • girls' brigade — (in Britain) an organization for girls, founded in 1893, with the aim of promoting self-discipline and self-respect
  • give sb a bell — If you give someone a bell, you telephone them.
  • glauber's salt — the decahydrate form of sodium sulfate, a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na 2 SO 4 ·10H 2 O, used chiefly in textile dyeing and as a cathartic.
  • global dimming — a decrease in the amount of sunlight reaching the surface of the earth, believed to be caused by pollution in the atmosphere
  • global product — a commercial product that is marketed throughout the world under the same brand name
  • global village — the world, especially considered as the home of all nations and peoples living interdependently.
  • global warming — an increase in the earth's average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect.
  • globalizations — Plural form of globalization.
  • globe amaranth — a plant, Gomphrena globosa, native to the Old World tropics, having dense heads of variously colored flowers that retain their color when cut.
  • go a bundle on — to be extremely fond of
  • golden warbler — yellow warbler.
  • goliath beetle — any very large tropical scarabaeid beetle of the genus Goliathus, esp G. giganteus of Africa, which may grow to a length of 20 centimetres
  • goose barnacle — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
  • governableness — The state of being governable.
  • greek alphabet — the alphabetical script derived from a Semitic alphabet by way of the Phoenicians, used from about the 8th century b.c. for the writing of Greek, and forming the basis of many other scripts, including Latin and Cyrillic. The letters of the Greek alphabet are: alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu1 , xi, omicron, pi1 , rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi1 , psi1 , omega.
  • grylloblattids — Plural form of grylloblattid.
  • gulf of cambay — an inlet of the Arabian Sea on the W coast of India, southeast of the Kathiawar Peninsula
  • gyrostabiliser — (British spelling) Alternative form of gyrostabilizer.
  • gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
  • gyrostabilizer — a device for stabilizing a seagoing vessel by counteracting its rolling motion from side to side, consisting essentially of a rotating gyroscope weighing about 1 percent of the displacement of the vessel.
  • hague tribunal — the court of arbitration for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, established at The Hague by the international peace conference of 1899: its panel of jurists nominates a list of persons from which members of the United Nations International Court of Justice are elected.
  • half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
  • hamilcar barca — c270–228 b.c, Carthaginian general and statesman (father of Hannibal).
  • hamilton basso — Hamilton, 1904–64, U.S. journalist and novelist.
  • hasan al-basri — died 728 ad, Muslim religious thinker
  • health problem — ailment or disorder
  • heaven help sb — You say 'Heaven help someone' when you are worried that something bad is going to happen to them, often because you disapprove of what they are doing or the way they are behaving.
  • heidelberg jaw — a human lower jaw of early middle Pleistocene age found in 1907 near Heidelberg, Germany.
  • heidelberg man — the primitive human being reconstructed from the Heidelberg jaw.
  • helium balloon — a balloon that is filled with helium and rises up into the air if not held
  • hemimetabolism — incomplete metamorphosis.
  • hemimetabolous — incomplete metamorphosis.
  • hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
  • hereditability — heritable.
  • hermit warbler — a common wood warbler (Dendroica occidentalis) of W North America, with a yellow-and-black head, a gray back, and white underparts
  • hold sb's hand — If you ask someone to hold your hand at an event that you are worried about, you ask them to support you by being there with you.
  • holometabolism — The complete metamorphosis of an insect.
  • holometabolous — undergoing complete metamorphosis.
  • honourableness — Alternative spelling of honorableness.
  • hooded warbler — a wood warbler, Wilsonia citrina, of the U.S., olive-green above, yellow below, and having a black head and throat with a yellow face.
  • horizontal bar — on a bar chart
  • hospitableness — The quality of being hospitable.
  • hospital board — the group of people responsible for the safe and efficient running of a hospital
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