16-letter words containing g, a, b, l

burge's language — Unnamed functional language based on lambda-calculus. Recursive Programming techniques", W.H. Burge, A-W 1975.
cabbage palmetto — a tropical American fan palm, Sabal palmetto, with edible leaf buds and leaves used in thatching
cabbage root fly — a dipterous fly, Erioischia brassicae, whose larvae feed on the roots and stems of cabbages and other brassicas: family Muscidae (houseflies, etc)
canada bluegrass — a Eurasian grass, Poa compressa, naturalized in North America, having creeping rootstocks and bluish-green leaves.
chargeable asset — any asset that can give rise to assessment for capital gains tax on its disposal. Exempt assets include principal private residences, cars, investments held in a personal equity plan, and government securities
cigarette beetle — a small cylindrical beetle, Lasioderma serricorne, that is a pest, especially of dried tobacco.
circumambulating — Present participle of circumambulate.
class background — a person's background with reference to social class
columbia heights — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
come/bring alive — If a story or description comes alive, it becomes interesting, lively, or realistic. If someone or something brings it alive, they make it seem more interesting, lively, or realistic.
congeliturbation — the churning, heaving, and thrusting of soil material due to the action of frost.
counterbalancing — Present participle of counterbalance.
daylight robbery — If someone charges you a great deal of money for something and you think this is unfair or unreasonable, you can refer to this as daylight robbery.
de broglie waves — the set of waves that represent the behaviour of an elementary particle, or some atoms and molecules, under certain conditions. The de Broglie wavelength, λ, is given by λ = h/mv, where h is the Planck constant, m the mass, and v the velocity of the particle
deoxyhaemoglobin — (biochemistry) The form of haemoglobin that has released its oxygen.
disagreeableness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being disagreeable.
discombobulating — Present participle of discombobulate.
disposable goods — consumer goods that are used up a short time after purchase, including perishables, newspapers, clothes, etc
division algebra — a linear algebra in which each element of the vector space has a multiplicative inverse.
double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
draw the longbow — to exaggerate in telling something
duplicate bridge — a form of contract bridge used in tournaments in which contestants play the identical series of deals, with each deal being scored independently, permitting individual scores to be compared.
east gwillimbury — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
eclipsing binary — a variable star whose changes in brightness are caused by periodic eclipses of two stars in a binary system.
el camino bignum — (humour) /el' k*-mee'noh big'nuhm/ The road mundanely called El Camino Real, a road through the San Francisco peninsula that originally extended all the way down to Mexico City and many portions of which are still intact. Navigation on the San Francisco peninsula is usually done relative to El Camino Real, which defines logical north and south even though it isn't really north-south many places. El Camino Real runs right past Stanford University. The Spanish word "real" (which has two syllables: /ray-al'/) means "royal"; El Camino Real is "the royal road". In the Fortran language, a "real" quantity is a number typically precise to seven significant digits, and a "double precision" quantity is a larger floating-point number, precise to perhaps fourteen significant digits (other languages have similar "real" types). When a hacker from MIT visited Stanford in 1976, he remarked what a long road El Camino Real was. Making a pun on "real", he started calling it "El Camino Double Precision" - but when the hacker was told that the road was hundreds of miles long, he renamed it "El Camino Bignum", and that name has stuck. (See bignum).
family balancing — the choosing of the sex of a future child on the basis of how many children of each sex a family already has
flabbergastation — (colloquial) Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted.
flabbergastingly — Surprisingly, astonishingly or amazingly.
flamborough head — a chalk promontory in NE England, on the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire
flying ambulance — an aircraft used to take sick or injured people to hospital
four-deal bridge — a version of bridge in which four hands only are played, the players then cutting for new partners
freeboard length — the length of a vessel, measured on the summer load line from the fore side of the stem to some part of the stern, usually the after side of the rudderpost.
gabriel, richard — Richard Gabriel
galvanic battery — battery (def 1a).
gapless playback — audio or visual playback without any interruptions or silence between tracks or scenes
garbage disposal — A garbage disposal or a garbage disposal unit is a small machine in the kitchen sink that breaks down waste matter so that it does not block the sink.
gas blowoff line — A gas blowoff line is a safety device to control sudden increases in pressure.
general assembly — the legislature in some states of the U.S.
generalisability — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizability.
generalizability — The quality of being generalizable.
gibberellic acid — a gibberellin C 18 H 21 O 4 COOH, produced as a metabolite by the fungus Gibberella fujikuroi, used as a stimulator of plant growth.
gingerbread palm — doom palm.
gingerbread plum — a tree, Neocarya macrophylla, of western Africa, bearing a large, edible, starchy fruit.
global community — the people or nations of the world, considered as being closely connected by modern telecommunications and as being economically, socially, and politically interdependent
globigerina ooze — a calcareous deposit occurring upon ocean beds and consisting mainly of the shells of dead foraminifers, especially globigerina.
globular cluster — a comparatively older, spherically symmetrical, compact group of up to a million old stars, held together by mutual gravitation, that are located in the galactic halo and move in giant and highly eccentric orbits around the galactic center.
go out on a limb — say sth daring
granville-barker — Harley, 1877–1946, English dramatist, actor, and critic.
great blue heron — a large American heron, Ardea herodias, having bluish-gray plumage.
green vegetables — green edible plants

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