11-letter words containing g, a, b, o
- glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
- global rule — (in transformational grammar) a rule that makes reference to nonconsecutive stages of a derivation
- globalising — Present participle of globalise.
- globalizing — Present participle of globalize.
- globe valve — a valve with a globular body, closed by a disk seating on an opening in an internal wall.
- globigerina — any marine foraminifer of the genus Globigerina, having a calcareous shell, occurring either near the surface of the sea or in the mud at the bottom.
- go bail for — to furnish bail for
- goatsbeards — Plural form of goatsbeard.
- gob-smacked — utterly astounded; astonished.
- gobsmacking — Causing one to be gobsmacked; astounding, flabbergasting.
- goldbeating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- goldbergian — Rube Goldberg.
- gombeen-man — a usurer or moneylender.
- gonimoblast — a spore-bearing filament in the carpogonium of red algae
- gopher ball — a pitched ball hit for a home run: leading the league in gopher balls.
- gossypiboma — (surgery) A gauze or surgical sponge left inside a patient's body during surgery.
- granny bond — (in Britain) an informal name for retirement issue certificate, an index-linked savings certificate, originally available only to people over retirement age
- graverobber — a person who steals valuables from graves and tombs: Graverobbers had emptied the Mayan tomb before archaeologists could examine its contents.
- great abaco — two islands (Great Abaco and Little Abaco) in the N Bahamas. 776 sq. mi. (2010 sq. km).
- ground bait — chum2 (def 1).
- ground ball — a batted ball that rolls or bounces along the ground.
- ground bass — a short fundamental bass part continually repeated throughout a movement.
- ground beam — a reinforced concrete beam for supporting walls, joists, etc., at or near ground level, itself either resting directly upon the ground or supported at both ends by piers.
- gubernation — the act of governing or ruling
- gymnophobia — An inordinate fear or hatred of being naked, and possibly nudity or nudists and naturists.
- haemoglobin — (protein) alternative spelling of hemoglobin.
- halo blight — a disease of plants, characterized by small, necrotic leaf or fruit lesions surrounded by a yellowish, halolike band, caused by any of several bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas.
- halsingborg — a seaport in SW Sweden, opposite Helsingör.
- haptoglobin — A protein present in blood serum that binds to and removes free hemoglobin from the bloodstream.
- headborough — the official in charge of a tithing
- hedge about — If you say that something such as an offer is hedged about or is hedged around with rules or conditions, you mean that there are a lot of rules or conditions.
- home baking — such things as bread, cakes and biscuits that are baked at home
- ibn gabirol — Arabic name of Avicebrón.
- ibn-gabirol — Solomon. ?1021–?58, Jewish philosopher and poet, born in Spain. His work The Fountain of Life influenced Western medieval philosophers
- incogitable — Not cogitable; inconceivable.
- interrobang — a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
- job sharing — to share the responsibility and duties of a single full-time job with one or more other employees.
- keyboarding — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- laborsaving — designed or intended to reduce or replace human labor: The dishwasher is a laborsaving device.
- lamb of god — Christ.
- langobardic — Lombard1 (def 4).
- loading bay — dock where cargo is loaded
- long barrow — a funerary barrow having an elongate shape, sometimes constructed over a megalithic chamber tomb and usually containing one or more inhumed corpses along with artifacts: primarily Neolithic but extending into the Bronze Age.
- long branch — a city in E New Jersey: seaside resort.
- lumbaginous — relating to, or suffering from, lumbago
- marlborough — John Churchill, 1st Duke of, Churchill, John, 1st Duke of Marlborough.
- maryborough — a seaport in E Australia.
- megaloblast — an abnormally large, immature, and dysfunctional red blood cell found in the blood of persons with pernicious anemia or certain other disorders.
- montego bay — a city in NW Jamaica: seaside resort.
- mothballing — Present participle of mothball.