11-letter words containing b, o, g, s
- forebodings — Plural form of foreboding.
- frostbiting — Present participle of frostbite.
- garbologist — the study of the material discarded by a society to learn what it reveals about social or cultural patterns.
- 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
- 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).
- ghostbuster — A person who claims to be able to banish ghosts and poltergeists.
- gibbousness — The quality of being gibbous.
- gibson girl — the idealized American girl of the 1890s as represented in the illustrations of Charles Dana Gibson.
- glass block — a translucent, hollow or solid block of glass for glazing openings or constructing partitions, usually square on the face, with the outer surfaces treated in any of various ways.
- glassblower — A person skilled in the art of glassblowing.
- glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
- globalising — Present participle of globalise.
- globefishes — Plural form of globefish.
- gnotobiosis — an environmental condition in which germfree animals have been inoculated with strains of known microorganisms.
- goatsbeards — Plural form of goatsbeard.
- gob-smacked — utterly astounded; astonished.
- gob-stopper — a large piece of hard candy.
- gobsmacking — Causing one to be gobsmacked; astounding, flabbergasting.
- gobstoppers — Plural form of gobstopper.
- gonimoblast — a spore-bearing filament in the carpogonium of red algae
- goose bumps — If you get goose bumps, the hairs on your skin stand up so that it is covered with tiny bumps. You get goose bumps when you are cold, frightened, or excited.
- gossypiboma — (surgery) A gauze or surgical sponge left inside a patient's body during surgery.
- ground bass — a short fundamental bass part continually repeated throughout a movement.
- groundburst — The explosion of a bomb dropped from the air when it hits the ground.
- halsingborg — a seaport in SW Sweden, opposite Helsingör.
- helsingborg — a port in SW Sweden, on the Sound opposite Helsingør, Denmark: changed hands several times between Denmark and Sweden, finally becoming Swedish in 1710; shipbuilding. Pop: 121 097 (2004 est)
- herbologist — the study or collecting of herbs, especially as a hobby.
- higgs boson — a hypothetical type of heavy, electrically neutral particle with zero spin.
- highbrowism — Highbrow attitudes and policies generally.
- ignobleness — The state or condition of being ignoble.
- job costing — a method of cost accounting by which the total cost of a given unit or quantity is determined by computing the costs that go into making a product as it moves through the manufacturing process.
- job sharing — to share the responsibility and duties of a single full-time job with one or more other employees.
- laborsaving — designed or intended to reduce or replace human labor: The dishwasher is a laborsaving device.
- lignotubers — Plural form of lignotuber.
- lumbaginous — relating to, or suffering from, lumbago
- megaloblast — an abnormally large, immature, and dysfunctional red blood cell found in the blood of persons with pernicious anemia or certain other disorders.
- misbecoming — Present participle of misbecome.
- misbegotten — unlawfully or irregularly begotten; born of unmarried parents; illegitimate: his misbegotten son.
- misdoubting — Present participle of misdoubt.
- negotiables — Plural form of negotiable.
- obfuscating — Present participle of obfuscate.
- obligations — Plural form of obligation.
- obligements — Plural form of obligement.
- obsagittate — (botany, of leaves) Of a reverse sagittate shape, with two pointed lobes extending at the apex.
- observingly — Attentively, observantly.
- obsignation — the action or process of certifying by means of, or as if with, a seal or a mark of ratification
- obsignatory — (obsolete) Ratifying; confirming by sealing.
- obsolescing — to be or become obsolescent.