16-letter words containing g, a, b, o, n

dearborn heights — city in SE Mich.: suburb of Detroit: pop. 58,000
debating society — a club, e.g. at a school or university, which regularly holds debates
deoxyhaemoglobin — (biochemistry) The form of haemoglobin that has released its oxygen.
discombobulating — Present participle of discombobulate.
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
economic embargo — a legal stoppage of commerce, usually taken by one nation or group of nations to harm the economy of another nation or group, often to force a political change
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).
flabbergastation — (colloquial) Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted.
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.
gas blowoff line — A gas blowoff line is a safety device to control sudden increases in pressure.
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.
go out on a limb — say sth daring
go/be easy on sb — If you tell someone to go easy on, or be easy on, a particular person, you are telling them not to punish or treat that person very severely.
grant of probate — a certificate stating that a will is valid
great blue heron — a large American heron, Ardea herodias, having bluish-gray plumage.
ground substance — Also called matrix. the homogeneous substance in which the fibers and cells of connective tissue are embedded.
growth substance — any substance, produced naturally by a plant or manufactured commercially, that, in very low concentrations, affects plant growth; a plant hormone
gulf of martaban — an inlet of the Bay of Bengal in Myanmar
gulf of san blas — an inlet of the Caribbean on the N coast of Panama
hanging wardrobe — a wardrobe containing a rail with a large amount of space underneath, so that clothes can be hung on hangers placed onto the rail
hemangioblastoma — (medicine) Any of several benign neoplasm tumours of the brain.
herringbone gear — a helical gear having teeth that lie on the pitch cylinder in a V -shaped form so that one half of each tooth is on a right-handed helix and the other half on a left-handed helix.
horseback riding — activity: riding a horse
huntington beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
into the bargain — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
jacobson's organ — either of a pair of blind, tubular, olfactory sacs in the roof of the mouth, vestigial in humans but well-developed in many animals, especially reptiles.
karadeniz bogazi — Bosporus
kingdom-of-nubia — a region in S Egypt and the Sudan, N of Khartoum, extending from the Nile to the Red Sea.
knights of labor — a secret workingmen's organization formed in 1869 to defend the interests of labor.
knowledgeability — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
labour agreement — a contract between workers and managers setting out working conditions, wages, etc
large-print book — a book where the text is printed in larger text than normal, so as to make it easier to read, esp for the visually impaired
long-established — having a long history; old
magnolia warbler — a black and yellow wood warbler, Dendroica magnolia, of North America.
manganese bronze — an alloy that is about 55 percent copper, 40 percent zinc, and up to 3.5 percent manganese.
marine biologist — scientist who studies sea life
molybdate orange — a pigment consisting of a solid solution of sulfate, molybdate, and chromate compounds of lead.
mönchen-gladbach — city in WC Germany, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia: pop. 266,000
montagu's blenny — a small blenny, Coryphoblennius galerita, found among rocks in shallow water
nagorno-karabakh — a region in SW Azerbaijan: residents mostly Armenian. 1700 sq. mi. (4400 sq. km).
nitrogen balance — the difference between the amount of nitrogen taken in and the amount excreted or lost: used to evaluate nutritional balance.
non-debilitating — to make weak or feeble; enfeeble: The siege of pneumonia debilitated her completely.
nonbiodegradable — Not biodegradable.
nondurable goods — goods that remain usable for, or must be replaced within, a relatively short period of time, as food, apparel, or fabrics
northanger abbey — a novel (1818) by Jane Austen.
norwegian buhund — a slightly-built medium-sized dog of a breed with erect pointed ears and a short thick tail carried curled over its back
objective danger — a danger, such as a stone fall or avalanche, to which climbing skill is irrelevant

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