11-letter words containing b, o, g, e
- doubled sig — A sig block that has been included twice in a Usenet article or, less commonly, in an electronic mail message. An article or message with a doubled sig can be caused by improperly configured software. More often, however, it reveals the author's lack of experience in electronic communication. See BIFF, pseudo.
- dragon beam — dragging piece.
- elaborating — Present participle of elaborate.
- emblazoning — Present participle of to emblazon.
- emboldening — Present participle of embolden.
- embrocating — Present participle of embrocate.
- embryologic — Embryological.
- finger bowl — a small bowl to hold water for rinsing the fingers at table.
- fingerboard — (of a violin, cello, etc.) the strip of wood on the neck against which the strings are stopped by the fingers.
- firebombing — Present participle of firebomb.
- footbridges — Plural form of footbridge.
- forebearing — Present participle of forebear.
- forebodings — Plural form of foreboding.
- forgettable — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
- forgiveable — Misspelling of forgivable.
- four-bagger — home run.
- four-banger — a four-cylinder engine.
- freebooting — to act as a freebooter; plunder; loot.
- furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
- galeophobia — The fear of sharks.
- gauge boson — a boson that mediates the interaction between elementary particles. There are several types: photons for electromagnetic interactions, W and Z intermediate vector bosons for weak interactions, and gravitons for gravitational interactions
- gemfibrozil — An oral drug, one of the fibrates, used to lower lipid levels.
- geobotanist — a person who studies geobotany
- geodatabase — (geography, computing) A database containing geographical and spatial data.
- george bush — Barbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
- germaphobia — Pathological fear of germs.
- germaphobic — Alternative form of germophobic.
- germophobic — Morbidly afraid of germs.
- get back to — resume
- ghostbuster — A person who claims to be able to banish ghosts and poltergeists.
- gibbousness — The quality of being gibbous.
- gilt bronze — ormolu (def 2).
- glassblower — A person skilled in the art of glassblowing.
- global rule — (in transformational grammar) a rule that makes reference to nonconsecutive stages of a derivation
- globe valve — a valve with a globular body, closed by a disk seating on an opening in an internal wall.
- globefishes — Plural form of globefish.
- globeflower — any of several plants belonging to the genus Trollius, of the buttercup family, as T. laxus, of North America, having rounded, yellowish flowers.
- globigerina — any marine foraminifer of the genus Globigerina, having a calcareous shell, occurring either near the surface of the sea or in the mud at the bottom.
- go belly up — the front or under part of a vertebrate body from the breastbone to the pelvis, containing the abdominal viscera; the abdomen.
- goatsbeards — Plural form of goatsbeard.
- gob-smacked — utterly astounded; astonished.
- gob-stopper — a large piece of hard candy.
- gobble down — eat hungrily
- goblet cell — a type of epithelial cell that secretes mucin, so called after its shape.
- gobstoppers — Plural form of gobstopper.
- gold beetle — any of several beetles having a golden luster, as a chrysomelid, Metriona bicolor, that feeds on morning glories and roses.
- gold bronze — an alloy of about 90 percent copper, 5 percent zinc, 3 percent lead, and 2 percent tin.
- goldbeating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- goldbergian — Rube Goldberg.
- goldbricked — Simple past tense and past participle of goldbrick.