13-letter words containing b, o, g, l, e
- buffalo grove — a city in NE Illinois.
- cable molding — a molding in the form of a rope.
- carriage bolt — a round-headed bolt for timber, threaded along part of its shank, inserted into holes already drilled.
- categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
- categorizable — Capable of being categorized.
- climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
- club together — If people club together to do something, they all give money towards the cost of it.
- 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.
- college-bound — intending to go to college
- cologne brown — Vandyke brown.
- congratulable — worthy of congratulation
- coolidge tube — a cathode ray tube, used for x-ray production, in which a beam of thermoelectrons is produced by heating a wire cathode.
- 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.
- 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
- diabetologist — a person who studies diabetes
- disemboweling — Present participle of disembowel.
- disobligement — disobligation
- double dagger — a mark (‡) used for references, as footnotes.
- double garage — a garage that can hold two vehicles
- double magnum — Jeroboam (def 2).
- 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.
- double-glazed — of, having, or provided with double glazing: double-glazed windows and doors.
- double-tongue — to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and k alternately, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.
- durable goods — Durable goods or durables are goods such as televisions or cars which are expected to last a long time, and are bought infrequently.
- eco-labelling — the practice or system of using eco-labels
- embryological — Of or pertaining to embryology.
- encourageable — Able to be encouraged; suggestible.
- exobiological — Of or pertaining to exobiology; alien.
- floating debt — short-term government borrowing, esp by the issue of three-month Treasury bills
- football game — soccer match
- galveston bay — an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico.
- garcia robles — Alfonso [al-fon-soh,, -zoh;; Spanish ahl-fawn-saw] /ælˈfɒn soʊ,, -zoʊ;; Spanish ɑlˈfɔn sɔ/ (Show IPA), 1911–91, Mexican diplomat: Nobel Prize 1982.
- gelada baboon — a NE African baboon, Theropithecus gelada, with dark brown hair forming a mane over the shoulders, a bare red chest, and a ridged muzzle: family Cercopithecidae
- ghettoblaster — Alternative form of ghetto blaster.
- girl's blouse — used to refer to a man who is not behaving in a very strong or masculine way
- gladstone bag — a small rectangular suitcase hinged to open into two compartments of equal size.
- global search — a word-processing operation in which a complete computer file or set of files is searched for every occurrence of a particular word or other sequence of characters
- globe theatre — a theater on the south bank of the Thames in London, 1599–1613: many of Shakespeare's plays were first produced here.
- globe thistle — any of various Old World, thistlelike, composite plants of the genus Echinops, having dense heads of tubular blue or white flowers.
- globe-trotter — a person who travels widely about the world, esp. for pleasure
- globetrotters — Plural form of globetrotter.
- globetrotting — to travel throughout the world, especially regularly or frequently.
- globuliferous — containing or producing globules.
- go to blazes! — go to hell!
- gobar numeral — any of a set of ancient numerals derived from Hindu numerals
- golden number — a number between 1 and 19, used to indicate the position of any year in the Metonic cycle, calculated as the remainder when 1 is added to the given year and the sum is divided by 19. If the remainder is zero the number is 19
- googlebombing — an effort to move a website to the top of search-engine results for a particular word or phrase, by creating a large number of links that contain this search text.