11-letter words containing g, a, b, r, o
- browbeating — to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing.
- brown algae — any algae of the phylum Phaeophyta, such as the wracks and kelps, which contain a brown pigment in addition to chlorophyll
- brown sugar — Brown sugar is sugar that has not been refined, or is only partly refined. It is golden brown in color.
- burglarious — of, constituting, or inclined to burglary
- burgomaster — the chief magistrate of a town in Austria, Belgium, Germany, or the Netherlands; mayor
- cabbageworm — any caterpillar that feeds on cabbages, esp that of the cabbage white
- car bombing — an instance when a bomb which someone has hidden under or in a car explodes
- carbonating — Present participle of carbonate.
- carbonizing — Present participle of carbonize.
- combat gear — the uniform worn by soldiers when fighting
- cougar bait — a younger man who is often pursued by older women seeking a sexual relationship: We all agreed he was prime cougar bait.
- daggerboard — a light bladelike board inserted into the water through a slot in the keel of a boat to reduce keeling and leeway
- dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
- dogger bank — a shoal in the North Sea, between N England and Denmark: fishing grounds; naval battle 1915.
- dragon beam — dragging piece.
- dragon book — (publication) The classic text "Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools", by Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman (Addison-Wesley 1986; ISBN 0-201-10088-6). So called because of the cover design featuring a dragon labelled "complexity of compiler design" and a knight bearing the lance "LALR parser generator" among his other trappings. This one is more specifically known as the "Red Dragon Book" (1986); an earlier edition, sans Sethi and titled "Principles Of Compiler Design" (Alfred V. Aho and Jeffrey D. Ullman; Addison-Wesley, 1977; ISBN 0-201-00022-9), was the "Green Dragon Book" (1977). (Also "New Dragon Book", "Old Dragon Book".) The horsed knight and the Green Dragon were warily eying each other at a distance; now the knight is typing (wearing gauntlets!) at a terminal showing a video-game representation of the Red Dragon's head while the rest of the beast extends back in normal space. See also book titles.
- elaborating — Present participle of elaborate.
- embrocating — Present participle of embrocate.
- farnborough — a town in S England, in NE Hampshire: military base, with an aeronautical research centre. Pop: 57 147 (2001)
- fingerboard — (of a violin, cello, etc.) the strip of wood on the neck against which the strings are stopped by the fingers.
- forebearing — Present participle of forebear.
- forgettable — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
- forgiveable — Misspelling of forgivable.
- four-bagger — home run.
- four-banger — a four-cylinder engine.
- garbologist — the study of the material discarded by a society to learn what it reveals about social or cultural patterns.
- germaphobia — Pathological fear of germs.
- germaphobic — Alternative form of germophobic.
- glamour boy — a man whose appearance or lifestyle is considered glamorous by popular standards.
- glassblower — A person skilled in the art of glassblowing.
- 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
- 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.
- goldbergian — Rube Goldberg.
- gopher ball — a pitched ball hit for a home run: leading the league in gopher balls.
- 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
- halsingborg — a seaport in SW Sweden, opposite Helsingör.
- headborough — the official in charge of a tithing
- 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
- 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.