14-letter words containing g, a, b, o, n
- breaking point — If something or someone has reached breaking point, they have so many problems or difficulties that they can no longer cope with them, and may soon collapse or be unable to continue.
- breech-loading — (of a firearm) loaded at the breech
- bring onstream — To bring onstream a plant, mine, oilfield, etc. is to start production there.
- brobdingnagian — gigantic; huge; immense
- bronchorrhagia — hemorrhage from the bronchial tubes.
- bubonic plague — Bubonic plague is a serious infectious disease spread by rats. It killed many people during the Middle Ages.
- budget account — an account with a department store, etc, enabling a customer to make monthly payments to cover his or her past and future purchases
- by a long shot — People sometimes use the expression by a long shot to emphasize the opinion they are giving.
- carbon trading — Carbon trading is the practice of buying and selling the right to produce carbon dioxide emissions, so that people, countries or companies who use a lot of fuel and electricity can buy rights from those that do not use so much.
- carbonyl group — the bivalent radical CO, occurring in acids, ketones, aldehydes, and their derivatives.
- carpet bombing — Carpet bombing is heavy bombing from aircraft, with the intention of hitting as many places as possible in a particular area.
- carpet bowling — a form of bowls played indoors on a strip of carpet, at the centre of which lies an obstacle round which the bowl has to pass
- cartilage bone — any bone that develops within cartilage rather than in a fibrous tissue membrane
- casino banking — an approach to banking which risks losing investors' money in the quest for maximizing profits
- charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
- chopping board — A chopping board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
- ciudad obregon — a city in W Mexico.
- cognate object — a noun functioning as the object of a verb to which it is etymologically related, as in think a thought or sing a song
- coinage bronze — an alloy of 95 percent copper, 4 percent tin, and 1 percent zinc.
- colombian gold — a potent marijuana grown in South America.
- conglobulation — the act of conglobing
- cotton batting — cotton wadding, as used in quilt making
- counter-gambit — a countermove
- diagnosability — the quality of being diagnosable
- diagonalisable — (of a square matrix or linear map) able to be diagonalised
- diagonalizable — (of a square matrix or linear map) able to be diagonalized
- disambiguation — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
- dogbane family — the plant family Apocynaceae, characterized by shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants having milky and often poisonous juice, simple opposite leaves, often showy flowers, and fruit usually in dry pods, and including the dogbane, oleander, periwinkle, and plumeria.
- double glazing — glazing consisting of two thicknesses of glass with a dead air space between them.
- double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
- double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
- double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
- double-dealing — duplicity; treachery; deception.
- drafting board — drawing board.
- dragon's blood — a deep-red, water-insoluble resin exuding from the fruit of a palm, Daemonorops draco, of the Malay Archipelago, used chiefly in the preparation of varnishes and in photoengraving for protecting certain areas of the metal plate from the acid.
- draining board — The draining board is the place on a sink unit where things such as cups, plates, and cutlery are put to drain after they have been washed.
- edging lobelia — a trailing lobelia, Lobelia erinus, of southern Africa, having loose clusters of blue flowers.
- effort bargain — a bargain in which the reward to an employee is based on the effort that the employee puts in
- finnbogadottir — Vigdís [Icelandic vig-dees] /Icelandic vɪgˈdis/ (Show IPA), born 1930, Icelandic political leader: president 1980–96.
- flotation bags — bags inflated to keep a spacecraft or helicopter afloat and upright when it lands in the sea
- flowering crab — any of several species and varieties of crab apple trees with small fruits and abundant spring flowers ranging from white to reddish purple
- food labelling — the practice of providing nutritional information on labels on food packaging
- forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
- gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
- gamma globulin — a protein fraction of blood plasma that responds to stimulation of antigens, as bacteria or viruses, by forming antibodies: administered therapeutically in the treatment of some viral diseases.
- garboard plank — the bottommost plank of a vessel's hull
- garden webworm — the larva of any of several moths, as Hyphantria cunea (fall webworm) or Loxostege similalis (garden webworm) which spins a web over the foliage on which it feeds.
- gay liberation — a political and social movement to combat legal and social discrimination against homosexuals.
- get one's back — situated at or in the rear: at the back door; back fence.
- global dimming — a decrease in the amount of sunlight reaching the surface of the earth, believed to be caused by pollution in the atmosphere