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

  • get above oneself — If you say that someone is getting above themself, you disapprove of them because they think they are better than everyone else.
  • glass box testing — white box testing
  • glastonbury chair — a folding chair having legs crossed front-to-back and having arms connected to the back and to the front seat rail.
  • goldbeater's skin — the prepared outside membrane of the large intestine of the ox, used by goldbeaters to lay between the leaves of the metal while they beat it into gold leaf.
  • golf ball printer — IBM 2741
  • greenland halibut — a flatfish, Reinhardtius hippoglossoides, similar and related to the halibut
  • gunboat diplomacy — diplomatic relations involving the use or threat of military force, especially by a powerful nation against a weaker one.
  • haemoglobinometer — an instrument used to determine the haemoglobin content of blood
  • haemoglobinopathy — (medicine) Any of a group of inherited disorders in which haemoglobin does not function properly.
  • harvey wallbanger — a screwdriver cocktail topped with Galliano.
  • headline-grabbing — A headline-grabbing statement or activity is one that is intended to attract a lot of attention, especially from the media.
  • henry cabot lodge — Henry Cabot, 1850–1924, U.S. public servant and author: senator 1893–1924.
  • high-carbon steel — steel containing between 0.5 and 1.5 per cent carbon
  • in broad daylight — openly, in full public view
  • in-band signaling — in-band signalling
  • inalienable right — right that cannot be taken away
  • indefatigableness — The state of being indefatigable.
  • indistinguishable — not distinguishable.
  • indistinguishably — In an indistinguishable manner; so that separate components or differences cannot be discerned.
  • intangible assets — intellectual property, etc.
  • knowledgeableness — The state, quality, or measure of being knowledgeable; wisdom.
  • learned borrowing — a word or other linguistic form borrowed from a classical language into a modern language.
  • learning-disabled — pertaining to or having a learning disability: a learning-disabled child.
  • lebesgue integral — an integral obtained by application of the theory of measure and more general than the Riemann integral.
  • light dawns on sb — If light dawns on you, you begin to understand something after a period of not being able to understand it.
  • ligurian republic — the republic in NW Italy set up by Napoleon in 1797, incorporated into France in 1805, and united with the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1814.
  • magellan barberry — an evergreen shrub, Berberis buxifolia, of southern Chile, having prickle-tipped leaves, dark-purple fruit, and orange-yellow flowers, rarely flowering in cultivation.
  • medulla oblongata — the lowest or hindmost part of the brain, continuous with the spinal cord.
  • methemoglobinemia — (medicine) A form of toxic anemia characterized by the presence of methemoglobin in the blood.
  • michigan bankroll — a large roll of paper money in small denominations.
  • negotiating table — If you say that people are at the negotiating table, you mean that they are having discussions in order to settle a dispute or reach an agreement.
  • neurobiologically — In terms of or by means of neurobiology.
  • non-assignability — capable of being specified: The word has no assignable meaning in our language.
  • non-biodegradable — capable of decaying through the action of living organisms: biodegradable paper; biodegradable detergent.
  • oregon crab apple — a shrub or small tree, Malus fusca, of the rose family, of the northwestern coast of North America, having hairy leaves, white flowers, and yellow or green oblong fruit.
  • pittsburg landing — a village in SW Tennessee, on the Tennessee River: battle of Shiloh in 1862.
  • receiving blanket — a small blanket, usually of cotton, for wrapping an infant, especially following a bath.
  • salt-rising bread — a kind of bread leavened with a fermented mixture of salted milk, cornmeal, flour, sugar, and soda.
  • shopping bag lady — bag lady (def 1).
  • shopping-bag lady — bag lady (def 1).
  • split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
  • subclavian groove — either of two grooves in the first rib, one for the main artery (subclavian artery) and the other for the main vein (subclavian vein) of the arm
  • symbolic language — a specialized language dependent upon the use of symbols for communication and created for the purpose of achieving greater exactitude, as in symbolic logic or mathematics.
  • taiping rebellion — a movement of religious mysticism and agrarian unrest in China between 1850 and 1864 which weakened the Manchu dynasty but was eventually suppressed with foreign aid
  • telephone banking — a facility enabling customers to make use of banking services, such as oral payment instructions, account movements, raising loans, etc, over the telephone rather than by personal visit
  • the whole shebang — The whole shebang is the whole situation or business that you are describing.
  • tibetan highlands — Tibet, Plateau of.
  • undistinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • universal algebra — (logic)   The model theory of first-order equational logic.
  • vanity publishing — the practice of the author of a book paying all or most of the costs of its publication
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