13-letter words containing b, i, l, g
- climbing wall — a specially constructed wall with recessed and projecting holds to give practice in rock climbing; a feature of many sports centres
- cloth binding — a type of binding in which a book is bound in stiff boards covered with cloth
- coachbuilding — the manufacture of bodies for cars, buses, and coaches
- coagulability — The ability to coagulate, of being coagulable.
- cobelligerent — a country fighting in a war on the side of another country
- cobol fingers — (jargon) /koh'bol fing'grz/ Reported from Sweden, a hypothetical disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see candygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
- collaborating — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
- coloring book — A coloring book is a book of simple drawings which children can color in.
- confabulating — Present participle of confabulate.
- coolidge tube — a cathode ray tube, used for x-ray production, in which a beam of thermoelectrons is produced by heating a wire cathode.
- cooling board — a plank for laying out a corpse.
- copyrightable — the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc.: works granted such right by law on or after January 1, 1978, are protected for the lifetime of the author or creator and for a period of 70 years after his or her death.
- corrigibility — The quality or state of being corrigible.
- cryobiologist — A biologist who specializes in cryobiology.
- cyberbullying — Cyberbullying is the use of the Internet to frighten or upset someone, usually by sending them unpleasant messages.
- cyberslacking — (informal) Use of the Internet during work hours for unrelated tasks.
- cyberstalking — Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet to contact someone or find out information about them in a way that is annoying or frightening.
- cycle billing — a method of billing customers at monthly intervals in which statements are prepared on each working day of the month and mailed to a designated fraction of the total number of customers.
- dabbling duck — any of numerous shallow-water ducks, especially of the genus Anas, that typically feed by upending and dabbling (contrasted with diving duck).
- dangleberries — Plural form of dangleberry.
- degradability — susceptible to chemical breakdown.
- demothballing — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.
- desobligeante — a type of carriage seating only one person
- destabilising — Present participle of destabilise.
- destabilizing — Present participle of destabilize.
- detribalizing — Present participle of detribalize.
- diabetologist — a person who studies diabetes
- digestibility — capable of being digested; readily digested.
- digital badge — a title or icon associated with a user profile or account that attests to the attainment of a skill or rank or the completion of an objective, as on an educational or social media website or a gaming platform.
- dingleberries — Plural form of dingleberry.
- disagreeables — annoying things
- disassembling — Present participle of disassemble.
- dischargeable — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- disemboweling — Present participle of disembowel.
- disintegrable — Capable of being disintegrated.
- disobligation — the state of being without obligation
- disobligatory — not obligatory
- disobligement — disobligation
- disobligingly — So as to disoblige.
- disregardable — to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
- diving beetle — any of numerous predaceous water beetles of the family Dytiscidae, having the body adapted for swimming.
- 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-figure — double-digit.
- drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
- eco-labelling — the practice or system of using eco-labels
- edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- elgin marbles — a group of 5th-century bc Greek sculptures originally decorating the Parthenon in Athens, brought to England by Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin (1766–1841), and now at the British Museum
- embryological — Of or pertaining to embryology.
- equilibrating — Present participle of equilibrate.
- excalibur bug — (humour, programming) The legendary bug that, despite repeated valliant attempts, none but the true king of all programmers can fix. Named after the sword in the stone in the legend of King Arthur.