16-letter words containing b, a, n, g, l

double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
draw the longbow — to exaggerate in telling something
eclipsing binary — a variable star whose changes in brightness are caused by periodic eclipses of two stars in a binary system.
el camino bignum — (humour) /el' k*-mee'noh big'nuhm/ The road mundanely called El Camino Real, a road through the San Francisco peninsula that originally extended all the way down to Mexico City and many portions of which are still intact. Navigation on the San Francisco peninsula is usually done relative to El Camino Real, which defines logical north and south even though it isn't really north-south many places. El Camino Real runs right past Stanford University. The Spanish word "real" (which has two syllables: /ray-al'/) means "royal"; El Camino Real is "the royal road". In the Fortran language, a "real" quantity is a number typically precise to seven significant digits, and a "double precision" quantity is a larger floating-point number, precise to perhaps fourteen significant digits (other languages have similar "real" types). When a hacker from MIT visited Stanford in 1976, he remarked what a long road El Camino Real was. Making a pun on "real", he started calling it "El Camino Double Precision" - but when the hacker was told that the road was hundreds of miles long, he renamed it "El Camino Bignum", and that name has stuck. (See bignum).
family balancing — the choosing of the sex of a future child on the basis of how many children of each sex a family already has
flabbergastation — (colloquial) Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted.
flabbergastingly — Surprisingly, astonishingly or amazingly.
flying ambulance — an aircraft used to take sick or injured people to hospital
freeboard length — the length of a vessel, measured on the summer load line from the fore side of the stem to some part of the stern, usually the after side of the rudderpost.
galvanic battery — battery (def 1a).
gas blowoff line — A gas blowoff line is a safety device to control sudden increases in pressure.
general assembly — the legislature in some states of the U.S.
generalisability — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizability.
generalizability — The quality of being generalizable.
gingerbread palm — doom palm.
gingerbread plum — a tree, Neocarya macrophylla, of western Africa, bearing a large, edible, starchy fruit.
global community — the people or nations of the world, considered as being closely connected by modern telecommunications and as being economically, socially, and politically interdependent
globigerina ooze — a calcareous deposit occurring upon ocean beds and consisting mainly of the shells of dead foraminifers, especially globigerina.
go out on a limb — say sth daring
granville-barker — Harley, 1877–1946, English dramatist, actor, and critic.
great blue heron — a large American heron, Ardea herodias, having bluish-gray plumage.
green vegetables — green edible plants
gulf of martaban — an inlet of the Bay of Bengal in Myanmar
gulf of san blas — an inlet of the Caribbean on the N coast of Panama
hebbian learning — (artificial intelligence) The most common way to train a neural network; a kind of unsupervised learning; named after canadian neuropsychologist, Donald O. Hebb. The algorithm is based on Hebb's Postulate, which states that where one cell's firing repeatedly contributes to the firing of another cell, the magnitude of this contribution will tend to increase gradually with time. This means that what may start as little more than a coincidental relationship between the firing of two nearby neurons becomes strongly causal. Despite limitations with Hebbian learning, e.g., the inability to learn certain patterns, variations such as Signal Hebbian Learning and Differential Hebbian Learning are still used.
hemangioblastoma — (medicine) Any of several benign neoplasm tumours of the brain.
indefatigability — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
inextinguishable — not extinguishable: an inextinguishable fire.
inextinguishably — In a way that cannot be extinguished; immortally.
irrefragableness — The quality or degree of being irrefragable.
king james bible — Authorized Version.
knights of labor — a secret workingmen's organization formed in 1869 to defend the interests of labor.
knowledgeability — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
labour agreement — a contract between workers and managers setting out working conditions, wages, etc
language barrier — difficulty in communication due to language difference
large-print book — a book where the text is printed in larger text than normal, so as to make it easier to read, esp for the visually impaired
latent ambiguity — uncertainty that arises when a seemingly clear written instrument is matched against an extrinsic fact, as when a description of something being sold fits two different items.
leaf-cutting bee — any of the bees of the family Megachilidae that cut circular pieces from leaves or flowers to line their nests.
lean-burn engine — an engine designed to use a lean mixture of fuel and air in order to reduce petrol consumption and exhaust emissions
like gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
long-established — having a long history; old
magnolia warbler — a black and yellow wood warbler, Dendroica magnolia, of North America.
marine biologist — scientist who studies sea life
molybdate orange — a pigment consisting of a solid solution of sulfate, molybdate, and chromate compounds of lead.
mönchen-gladbach — city in WC Germany, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia: pop. 266,000
montagu's blenny — a small blenny, Coryphoblennius galerita, found among rocks in shallow water
munchen-gladbach — former name of Mönchengladbach.
nitrogen balance — the difference between the amount of nitrogen taken in and the amount excreted or lost: used to evaluate nutritional balance.
non-debilitating — to make weak or feeble; enfeeble: The siege of pneumonia debilitated her completely.
nonbiodegradable — Not biodegradable.

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