15-letter words containing g, a, b, o
- malpighian body — Also called kidney corpuscle, Malpighian body. the structure at the beginning of a vertebrate nephron, consisting of a glomerulus and its surrounding Bowman's capsule.
- marlborough leg — a tapered leg having a square section.
- marriage broker — a person who arranges marriages, usually between strangers, for a fee.
- megalithic tomb — a burial chamber constructed of large stones, either underground or covered by a mound and usually consisting of long transepted corridors (gallery graves) or of a distinct chamber and passage (passage graves). The tombs may date from the 4th millennium bc
- meibomian gland — any of the small sebaceous glands in the eyelid, beneath the conjunctiva
- microbiological — Of or pertaining to microbiology.
- monchengladbach — a city in W North Rhine-Westphalia, in W Germany.
- morale-boosting — A morale-boosting action or event makes people feel more confident and cheerful.
- moreton bay bug — a flattish edible shellfish, Thenus orientalis, of Northern Australian waters
- moreton bay fig — a large Australian fig tree, Ficus macrophylla, having glossy leaves and smooth bark
- mortgage broker — agent who matches house buyer with mortgage lender
- nation-building — Journalists sometimes use nation-building to refer to government policies that are designed to create a strong sense of national identity.
- neighbor states — the states or countries next to another state or country
- neurobiological — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
- non-salvageable — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
- nonbiographical — not biographical, not relating to biography or events in a person's life
- nonbiologically — in a nonbiological way, not in a biological way
- nonexchangeable — capable of being exchanged.
- object exchange — (protocol) (OBEX) A Bluetooth protocol in the Core Protocol Stack for data exchange.
- object language — the language to which a metalanguage refers.
- oblique sailing — the navigation of a vessel on a point of the compass other than one of the cardinal points.
- obsidian dating — a method of dating obsidian artifacts or debitage by calculating how long it has taken to produce a given thickness of a hydration layer within such matter.
- obtuse triangle — a triangle with one obtuse angle.
- omega-algebraic — In domain theory, a complete partial order is algebraic if every element is the lub of some chain of compact elements. If the set of compact elements is countable it is omega-algebraic. Usually written with a Greek letter omega (LaTeX \omega).
- opening balance — the amount of money in an account at the start of an accounting period
- opening batsman — a player who bats the first ball in cricket
- operating table — table on which surgery is performed
- organized labor — all workers who are organized in labor unions.
- overbearingness — Quality of being overbearing.
- pack one's bags — If you pack your bags, you leave a place where you have been staying or living.
- pattern bombing — aerial bombing in which bombs are dropped on a target in a predetermined pattern.
- peachblow glass — an American art glass made in various pale colors and sometimes having an underlayer of milk glass.
- photodegradable — (of a substance) capable of being broken down by light.
- plug compatible — of or relating to computers or peripheral devices that are functionally equivalent to, and may be substituted for, other models.
- plug-compatible — of or relating to computers or peripheral devices that are functionally equivalent to, and may be substituted for, other models.
- plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
- programmability — capable of being programmed.
- psychobiography — a biographical study focusing on psychological factors, as childhood traumas and unconscious motives.
- recognizability — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- record-breaking — top, most successful
- reggio calabria — a seaport in S Italy, on the Strait of Messina: almost totally destroyed by an earthquake 1908.
- right-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the right, or starboard, side.
- rightabout-face — a turning directly about so as to face in the opposite direction
- robert guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
- roger bannister — Sir Roger (Gilbert) born 1929, English track and field athlete: first to run a mile in less than four minutes.
- rolling bearing — any bearing in which the antifriction action depends on the rolling action of balls or rollers
- rotary debugger — (Commodore) Essential equipment for those late-night or early-morning debugging sessions. Mainly used as sustenance for the hacker. Comes in many decorator colours, such as Sausage, Pepperoni, and Garbage.
- rough bluegrass — a grass, Poa trivialis, native to Eurasia and naturalized in North America, where it is used in mixtures for lawns and pasturage.
- rough breathing — the symbol (ʿ) used in the writing of Greek to indicate aspiration of the initial vowel or of the ρ (rho) over which it is placed.
- rubbing alcohol — a poisonous solution of about 70 percent isopropyl or denatured ethyl alcohol, usually containing a perfume oil, used chiefly in massaging.