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13-letter words containing g, a, b, l, e

  • 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-glazed — of, having, or provided with double glazing: double-glazed windows and doors.
  • drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
  • 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
  • elgin marbles — a group of 5th-century bc Greek sculptures originally decorating the Parthenon in Athens, brought to England by Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin (1766–1841), and now at the British Museum
  • embranglement — Embroilment, entanglement; the state of being or getting embrangled.
  • embryological — Of or pertaining to embryology.
  • encourageable — Able to be encouraged; suggestible.
  • equilibrating — Present participle of equilibrate.
  • excalibur bug — (humour, programming)   The legendary bug that, despite repeated valliant attempts, none but the true king of all programmers can fix. Named after the sword in the stone in the legend of King Arthur.
  • exobiological — Of or pertaining to exobiology; alien.
  • fatigableness — the quality of being fatigable
  • flabbergasted — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • flabbergaster — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • flabergasting — Present participle of flabergast.
  • floating debt — short-term government borrowing, esp by the issue of three-month Treasury bills
  • football game — soccer match
  • gabriel fauré — Gabriel Urbain [ga-bree-el oor-ban] /ga briˈɛl urˈbɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1845–1924, French composer.
  • galveston bay — an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico.
  • games library — a type of library for video games where games (usually downloaded via the internet) can be paid for per use rather than be bought at full price
  • 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.
  • garden balsam — a fleshy annual garden impatiens (Impatiens balsamina) with roselike white, lavender, yellow, pink, or red blossoms borne along the main stem in leaf axils
  • gateleg table — a table with one or two drop leaves that are supported when in use by a hinged leg swung out from the frame
  • 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
  • generalisable — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizable.
  • generalizable — to infer (a general principle, trend, etc.) from particular facts, statistics, or the like.
  • germinability — the degree of ability of a seed to germinate or sprout.
  • ghettoblaster — Alternative form of ghetto blaster.
  • gibble-gabble — senseless chatter.
  • glacier table — a stone slab supported over the surface of a mountain glacier by a column or columns of ice.
  • gladstone bag — a small rectangular suitcase hinged to open into two compartments of equal size.
  • glibenclamide — (medicine) An oral anti-diabetes medication.
  • 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.
  • gnu assembler — (GAS) A Unix assembler for the GNU project. Many CPU types are handled and COFF and IEEE-695 formats are supported as well as standard a.out. Current version 2.2 ported to Sun-3, Sun-4, i386, 386BSD, BSD/386, Linux, PS/2-AIX, VAX, Ultrix, BSD, VMS. The assembler has been merged with GNU Binutils. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • go to blazes! — go to hell!
  • gobar numeral — any of a set of ancient numerals derived from Hindu numerals
  • governability — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
  • gram-variable — of or relating to bacteria that stain irregularly with Gram's stain, being neither Gram-positive nor Gram-negative.
  • graphitizable — (chemistry, of carbon) Able to be converted to graphite.
  • great lobelia — a North American plant, Lobelia siphilitica, having long, showy clusters of blue flowers.
  • gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
  • gulf of gabès — an inlet of the Mediterranean on the E coast of Tunisia
  • harlequin bug — a black stink bug, Murgantia histrionica, having red and yellow markings, that feeds on cabbages and other cruciferous plants.
  • heli-boarding — the sport of snowboarding on mountains or glaciers accessible only by helicopter or skiplane
  • indefatigable — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
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