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16-letter words containing b, i, l, g

  • burrowing blenny — graveldiver.
  • business college — a college providing courses in secretarial studies, business management, accounting, commerce, etc
  • business english — English in business usage, especially the styles and forms of business correspondence.
  • chimney-climbing — the sport of climbing a vertical fissure large enough for a person's body to enter
  • cigarette beetle — a small cylindrical beetle, Lasioderma serricorne, that is a pest, especially of dried tobacco.
  • circumambulating — Present participle of circumambulate.
  • columbia heights — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • come/bring alive — If a story or description comes alive, it becomes interesting, lively, or realistic. If someone or something brings it alive, they make it seem more interesting, lively, or realistic.
  • congeliturbation — the churning, heaving, and thrusting of soil material due to the action of frost.
  • copyright symbol — (character, legal)   "©" The internationally recognised symbol required to introduce a copyright notice, a letter C with a circle around it. This can be encoded in ISO 8859-1 as character code decimal 169, hexadecimal A9, in HTML as ©, © or ©. A "c" in parentheses: "(c)" is sometimes used in documents stored in a coded character set such as ASCII that does not include the C in a circle, but this has no legal meaning.
  • counterbalancing — Present participle of counterbalance.
  • daylight robbery — If someone charges you a great deal of money for something and you think this is unfair or unreasonable, you can refer to this as daylight robbery.
  • de broglie waves — the set of waves that represent the behaviour of an elementary particle, or some atoms and molecules, under certain conditions. The de Broglie wavelength, λ, is given by λ = h/mv, where h is the Planck constant, m the mass, and v the velocity of the particle
  • deoxyhaemoglobin — (biochemistry) The form of haemoglobin that has released its oxygen.
  • designer stubble — (on a man) facial hair that is carefully trimmed to give what is thought to be an attractive rugged slightly unshaven look
  • disagreeableness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being disagreeable.
  • discombobulating — Present participle of discombobulate.
  • disposable goods — consumer goods that are used up a short time after purchase, including perishables, newspapers, clothes, etc
  • division algebra — a linear algebra in which each element of the vector space has a multiplicative inverse.
  • double centering — a method of extending a survey line by taking the average of two foresights, one with the telescope direct and one with it inverted, made each time by transiting the telescope after a backsight.
  • double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
  • double-clutching — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
  • drinking problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
  • duplicate bridge — a form of contract bridge used in tournaments in which contestants play the identical series of deals, with each deal being scored independently, permitting individual scores to be compared.
  • east gwillimbury — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • eclipsing binary — a variable star whose changes in brightness are caused by periodic eclipses of two stars in a binary system.
  • edinburgh prolog — Prolog dialect which eventually developed into the standard, as opposed to Marseille Prolog. (The difference is largely syntax.) Clocksin & Mellish describe Edinburgh Prolog. Version: C-Prolog.
  • 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.
  • flibbertigibbets — Plural form of flibbertigibbet.
  • flibbertigibbety — Like a flibbertigibbet; flighty; scatterbrained.
  • flying ambulance — an aircraft used to take sick or injured people to hospital
  • four-deal bridge — a version of bridge in which four hands only are played, the players then cutting for new partners
  • gabriel, richard — Richard Gabriel
  • galvanic battery — battery (def 1a).
  • garbage disposal — A garbage disposal or a garbage disposal unit is a small machine in the kitchen sink that breaks down waste matter so that it does not block the sink.
  • gas blowoff line — A gas blowoff line is a safety device to control sudden increases in pressure.
  • generalisability — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizability.
  • generalizability — The quality of being generalizable.
  • get into trouble — be punished for wrongdoing
  • gibberellic acid — a gibberellin C 18 H 21 O 4 COOH, produced as a metabolite by the fungus Gibberella fujikuroi, used as a stimulator of plant growth.
  • gingerbread palm — doom palm.
  • gingerbread plum — a tree, Neocarya macrophylla, of western Africa, bearing a large, edible, starchy fruit.
  • give sb the slip — If you give someone the slip, you escape from them when they are following you or watching you.
  • 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
  • goldsmith beetle — a brilliant golden scarabaeid beetle, Cetonia aurata, of Europe.
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