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

  • oblique triangle — any triangle that does not have a right angle (contrasted with right triangle).
  • of human bondage — a novel (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham.
  • on the bandwagon — on the popular or apparently winning side, as in an election
  • operating budget — money allocated to a project
  • organized labour — labour carried out by workers in trade unions, or the workers themselves
  • rag-and-bone man — a peddler who buys and sells used clothes, rags, etc.; junkman.
  • right honourable — (in Britain and certain Commonwealth countries) a title of respect for a Privy Councillor or an appeal-court judge
  • rough and tumble — characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles: a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
  • rough-and-tumble — characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles: a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
  • santiago de cuba — a region in Ecuador, E of the Andes: the border long disputed by Peru.
  • sebaceous glands — any of the cutaneous glands that secrete oily matter for lubricating hair and skin.
  • self-subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
  • simon boccanegra — an opera (1857) by Giuseppe Verdi.
  • smooth breathing — a symbol (') used in the writing of Greek to indicate that the initial vowel over which it is placed is unaspirated.
  • soft brown sugar — a type of moist sugar made by coating white sugar with dark molasses
  • sounding balloon — a balloon carrying instruments aloft to make atmospheric measurements, especially a radiosonde balloon.
  • subcartilaginous — partially or incompletely cartilaginous.
  • swedenborgianism — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
  • vegetable sponge — loofah (def 2).
  • virginia tobacco — a type of flue-cured tobacco grown originally in Virginia
  • world bank group — the collective name for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Finance Corporation, and the International Development Association, whose headquarters are all in Washington
  • yablonovyy range — a mountain range in the SE Russian Federation in Asia, E of Lake Baikal.
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