11-letter words containing b, o, l, g, n
- bulldogging — one of an English breed of medium-sized, short-haired, muscular dogs with prominent, undershot jaws, usually having a white and tan or brindled coat, raised originally for bullbaiting.
- cognoscible — able to be known or recognized
- congestible — to fill to excess; overcrowd or overburden; clog: The subway entrance was so congested that no one could move.
- conglobated — in the form of a globe or ball
- dealing box — a box that holds a deck or decks of cards, allowing them to be dealt only one at a time, often used in casino games such as blackjack or chemin de fer.
- diabolizing — Present participle of diabolize.
- diagnosable — to determine the identity of (a disease, illness, etc.) by a medical examination: The doctor diagnosed the illness as influenza.
- disobliging — Deliberately unhelpful; uncooperative.
- double-hung — (of a window) having two vertically sliding sashes, each closing a different part of the opening.
- double-ring — being or pertaining to a marriage ceremony in which the partners give rings to one another.
- elaborating — Present participle of elaborate.
- emblazoning — Present participle of to emblazon.
- emboldening — Present participle of embolden.
- finger bowl — a small bowl to hold water for rinsing the fingers at table.
- flying boat — a seaplane whose main body is a hull adapted for floating.
- flying bomb — robot bomb.
- flying bond — a brickwork bond having random, widely spaced headers.
- footballing — a game in which two opposing teams of 11 players each defend goals at opposite ends of a field having goal posts at each end, with points being scored chiefly by carrying the ball across the opponent's goal line and by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball over the crossbar between the opponent's goal posts. Compare conversion (def 13), field goal (def 1), safety (def 6), touchdown.
- furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
- giambologna — Giovanni da [jee-uh-vah-nee duh;; Italian jaw-vahn-nee dah] /ˌdʒi əˈvɑ ni də;; Italian dʒɔˈvɑn ni dɑ/ (Show IPA), (Jean de Boulogne; Giambologna) c1525–1608, Italian sculptor, born in France.
- gibson girl — the idealized American girl of the 1890s as represented in the illustrations of Charles Dana Gibson.
- gilt bronze — ormolu (def 2).
- 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.
- globalizing — Present participle of globalize.
- 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.
- gobble down — eat hungrily
- 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.
- golden buck — a dish consisting of Welsh rabbit topped with a poached egg.
- golden bull — an edict of Charles IV, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, issued in 1356 and in force until the extinction of the empire in 1806, in which the selection of the emperor was entrusted to seven Electors.
- golden club — an aquatic plant, Orontium aquaticum, of the arum family, native to the eastern U.S., having blue-green leaves and a clublike spadix covered with tiny yellow flowers.
- goldenberry — the Cape gooseberry
- gonimoblast — a spore-bearing filament in the carpogonium of red algae
- greenbottle — any of several metallic-green blowflies, as Phaenicia sericata.
- ground ball — a batted ball that rolls or bounces along the ground.
- haemoglobin — (protein) alternative spelling of hemoglobin.
- halsingborg — a seaport in SW Sweden, opposite Helsingör.
- haptoglobin — A protein present in blood serum that binds to and removes free hemoglobin from the bloodstream.
- 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)
- hobgoblinry — the behaviour or activities of hobgoblins
- ibn gabirol — Arabic name of Avicebrón.
- ibn-gabirol — Solomon. ?1021–?58, Jewish philosopher and poet, born in Spain. His work The Fountain of Life influenced Western medieval philosophers
- ignobleness — The state or condition of being ignoble.
- incogitable — Not cogitable; inconceivable.
- indigo blue — indigo (def 4).
- laborsaving — designed or intended to reduce or replace human labor: The dishwasher is a laborsaving device.
- langobardic — Lombard1 (def 4).
- lignotubers — Plural form of lignotuber.